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 ...

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 ...

Philanthropists who have pumped multimillion-dollar sums into the SA Museum are angered by a proposed revamp that critics say will imperil the institution’s future. The Advertiser has been told ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has also drawn criticism from the state’s scientific community, with two of the state’s former chief scientists pleading with the Labor government to increase funding. The museum houses the ...

A short train ride from Adelaide's CBD can get you to Australia's largest undercover railway museum. Steam and diesel locomotives, carriages and railcars sit across narrow, standard and wide gauges at ...