Adelaide Sights

South Australian Museum

#32 of 148 things to do in Adelaide

#1318 of 9606 things to do in Pacific

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Good for: kids

Not good for: long visits

  • Address
    • North Tce
  • Transport
    • 140-146, 99C
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 08-8207 7368
  • Price
    • admission free
  • Hours
    • 10am-5pm

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Lonely Planet review for South Australian Museum

The South Australian Museum digs into Australia’s natural history, with special exhibits on whales and Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, and an Aboriginal Cultures Gallery displaying artefacts of the Ngarrindjeri people of the Coorong and lower Murray. Free tours are run at 11am Monday to Friday and 2pm and 3pm Saturday and Sunday (don’t miss the giant squid!). There’s a cool cafe (mains $10 to $17; open for lunch) here too.

 

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    Old-school, but fun

    nthorpe recommends this,

    Yes, it's looking a bit tired, but it's free, and it's fun. One great thing it's easy to miss is the cloud chamber in the minerals section, where you can actually see the tracks of radioactive particles in real time.

    Good for: kids

    Not good for: long visits

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    lame

    muddy99 does not recommend this,

    beautiful building, but really, in this age the museum needs to lift it's game. I expected a lot more from the mawson exhibit, not just dusty yellowed photographs and stuffed birds with no actual tags as to what they were. Check out Te Papa in Wellington to see what a museum in the 21st century needs to look like. Where was all explorers history? What's with the stuffed lion?

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