For a bit of science and history during your stay in Adelaide, consider visiting the South Australian Museum. An Egyptian mummy, animal fossils, Pacific islander artifacts and aboriginal boomerangs ...

It took nearly 40 years, but an exhibition of groundbreaking Balgo paintings, which helped give birth to the contemporary Aboriginal Australian art movement, is finally on view. Lost for decades, the ...

The Australian Museum has received new funding in a difficult time for the sector. Paul Hocksenar The Australian Museum has joined the chorus of cultural institutions that have recently announced ...

Director Brian Oldman says that makes our museum “older than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Natural History Museum in London”. He believes the haste to create a collection ...

In the golden age of animal collecting, and also of taxidermy and photography, a sunfish weighing 1116 kilograms discovered grounded in mud at Darling Harbour in December 1882 was an opportunity too ...

In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared the museum is ...