South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum, viewed from Adelaide's cultural boulevard, North Terrace. | |
Former name | South Australian Institute |
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| Established | 1856 |
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Type | Natural history |
| Collection size | 4.84 million objects |
| Visitors | 1.1 million |
| Director | Clare Mockler (acting) |
| Owner | Government of South Australia |
| Employees | <90 fte, >200 volunteers, students and Honoraries |
| Website | www |
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands. Plans are under way to move much of its Australian Aboriginal cultural collection (the largest in the world), into a new National Gallery for Aboriginal Art and Cultures.