List of museums in South Australia
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This list of museums in South Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
Name | Location | Region | Type | Summary |
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Adelaide Gaol | Thebarton | Adelaide suburbs | Prison | Preserved historic prison and function centre |
Norwood | Adelaide suburbs | Ethnic | website, Lithuanian life and culture | |
Adelaide | Adelaide | Masonic | website | |
Andamooka | Eyre Peninsula | Mining | information, opal mining, located in a building built from discarded beer bottles | |
Architecture Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Architecture | website, part of the University of South Australia, collection of documents related to the history and practice of architecture in South Australia[1] |
Ardrossan Historical Museum | Ardrossan | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in the Clarence Herbert Smith Implement Factory where the stump-jump plough and other farm machinery were manufactured |
Keswick | Adelaide suburbs | Military | website, located in Keswick Barracks, | |
Art Gallery of South Australia | Adelaide | Adelaide | Visual arts | Largest state art collection in Australia |
Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga | Port Noarlunga | Adelaide suburbs | Art | website |
Peterhead | Adelaide suburbs | Maritime | website, operated by the Port Adelaide Historical Society | |
Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Toy | information, Australian manufactured toys dating back to the 1890s | |
Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Maritime | website, boats and boat building, area maritime heritage | |
Ayers House (Adelaide) | Adelaide | Adelaide | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 19th mansion with costumes, silverware, artworks and furniture |
Balaklava | Mid North | Local history | website | |
Spalding | Mid North | Commodity | website, features over 500 examples of barbed wire | |
Tanunda | Barossa Valley | Local history | website, area German heritage | |
Tanunda | Barossa Valley | Art | website | |
Glenelg | Adelaide suburbs | Multiple | website, cultural heritage of South Australia, history, art | |
Beachport | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Burra | Mid North | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Booleroo Centre | Flinders Ranges | Technology | website, steam tractors and agriculture equipment | |
Bourne's Bird Museum | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Natural history | information, mounted birds, nests and mammals, bird's eggs |
Brinkworth Historical Reserve Museum | Brinkworth | Mid North | Local history | information |
Bublacowie Military Museum | Yorketown | Yorke Peninsula | Military | information |
Burra Regional Art Gallery | Burra | Mid North | Art | website |
Cape Jaffa Lighthouse | Kingston SE | Limestone Coast | Maritime | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, furnished lighthouse with tower to climb |
Captain's Cottage Museum | Murray Bridge | Historic house | information | |
Carrick Hill | Springfield | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | Mid 20th century mansion with collection of drawings, sculptures, antiques and paintings |
Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | website, house and studio of landscape artist Hans Heysen | |
Ceduna | Eyre Peninsula | Education | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | |
Grange | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, home of explorer Charles Sturt | |
Wallaroo | Yorke Peninsula | Technology | website, electrical appliances and devices including the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, sound and video recorders, home appliances, medical equipment, computers, TV games and more | |
Clare Police Station and Courthouse | Jamestown | Mid North | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Classic Jets Fighter Museum | Parafield | Adelaide suburbs | Aerospace | |
Clayton Farm Heritage Museum | Bordertown | Limestone Coast | Farm | Late 19th century farmstead with historical thatched buildings and sheds, restored historical farm machinery and stationary engines |
Cobdogla | Riverland | Technology | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, steam pump, locomotive, traction engine, tractors, machinery and irrigation equipment | |
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia | Adelaide | Adelaide | Arts | Contemporary art |
Crystal Brook Heritage Centre | Crystal Brook | Mid North | Local history | information |
Dingley Dell | Port MacDonnell | Limestone Coast | Historic house | website, home of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon |
Edithburgh Museum | Edithburgh | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | information |
Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Museum | Mile End | Adelaide suburbs | Textile | website, embroidered, beaded, patchwork and lace pieces – the collection started in 1965 became known officially as the Embroiderers' Guild Museum in 1988.[2] |
Victor Harbor | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in a former Customs house and station master's residence | |
Enfield Heritage Museum | Regency Park | Adelaide suburbs | Open air | information, yown and country life in South Australia from the 1880s to more recent times |
Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery | Eudunda | Local history | website | |
Excell Blacksmith and Engineering Workshop Museum | Tumby Bay | Eyre Peninsula | History | information |
Kadina | Yorke Peninsula | Agriculture | website, farm machinery, role of women on farms, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Fayes Underground Home | Coober Pedy | Far North | Historic house | information, furnished dugout home |
Flinders University Museum of Art | Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | website, part of Flinders University |
Fort Glanville Conservation Park | Semaphore South | Adelaide suburbs | Military | 19th century fort |
Fred Teague's Museum | Hawker | Flinders Ranges | History | website, information, includes gemstones, minerals, fossils, photographs, antique bottles and memorabilia |
Friedensberg Historic German School Museum | Springton | Barossa Valley | Education | information |
Gamble Cottage | Blackwood | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Gawler Old Telegraph Station Museum | Gawler | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Glencoe | Limestone Coast | Farming | website, 19th century blade shearing and wool handling shed, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Automotive | information | |
Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Greenock | Barossa Valley | Aerospace | information, preserved and replica aircraft, restoration projects, scale models and aviation memorabilia | |
Hahndorf Academy | Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Multiple | website, regional art gallery, local history, German migration, drawings of Hans Heysen |
Hindmarsh | Adelaide suburbs | Firefighting | website, equipment, clothing and vehicles, operated by the Hindmarsh Historical Society | |
Brighton | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website | |
Kingscote | Kangaroo Island | Historic house | website, website, mid 19th century period cottage with period rooms, local history displays, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Jamestown Railway Station and Goods Shed Museum | Jamestown | Mid North | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Jill and Vic Fauser's Private Museum | Port Neill | Eyre Peninsula | History | information, includes stationary engines, a blacksmith shop, shells, rocks and bottles, historic household items |
Kapunda Community Gallery | Kapunda | Mid North | Art | website |
Kapunda Museum | Kapunda | Mid North | Local history | information |
Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | website, part of the University of South Australia | |
Kimba | Eyre Peninsula | Open air | information | |
Kingston Park | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, mid 19th century home of George Strickland Kingston | |
Kingston SE | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Koppio Smithy Museum | Koppio | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Lobethal Archives and Historical Museum | Lobethal | Adelaide Hills | Local history | information, German and English pioneer heritage |
Lochend | Cambelltown | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | information, mid 19th century home of the town's founder |
Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Religious | information, history of the Lutheran Church of Australia in Papua New Guinea and more recently in South East Asia since 1886 | |
Loxton | Riverland | Open air | website, includes a baker, bank, blacksmith, garage, printer, farm complex, railway, institute, school, operational fruit block and more | |
Lucindale Agricultural and Folk Museum | Lucindale | Limestone Coast | Local history | information, operated by the Lucindale Historical Society |
Mallala | Local history | website | ||
Pinnaroo | Murray Mallee | Local plus specialities | information Murray Mallee dryland farming, plus D. A. Wurfel grain collection; extensive range restored farm machinery including replica Ridley stripper; letterpress printing | |
Burra | Mid North | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, mid 19th century period stone cottage | |
Mannum | Local history | information, includes a paddle steamer, dry dock, local history exhibits, fossils, Aboriginal people | ||
Burra | Mid North | History | information, late 19th century period general store and shopkeeper's residence | |
Martindale Hall | Mintaro | Mid North | Historic house | Owned by the University of Adelaide, leased as heritage museum and boutique hotel |
Mary MacKillop Interpretive Centre | Penola | Limestone Coast | Biographical | Based on the life and achievements of Mary MacKillop and Father Julian Tenison Woods |
Mary MacKillop Museum Adelaide | Kensington | Adelaide suburb | Social history | Life and work of Mary MacKillop, Julian Tenison Woods and the Sisters of St Joseph, past and present |
Melrose | Flinders Ranges | Local history | website | |
Meningie | Local history | website, | ||
Migration Museum, Adelaide | Adelaide | Adelaide | Cultural | Immigration and settlement history of South Australia |
Milang Historic Railway Museum | Milang | Fleurieu | Railway | South Australian Railway and Light Railway displays, many interactive, information |
Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Historic house | information | |
Millicent | Limestone Coast | Local history | information | |
Millicent | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, features restored buggies, carriages and wagons, a machinery shed | |
Minlaton Museum | Minlaton | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Adelaide | Adelaide | Future | website, situated in the University_of_South_Australia CRI building on North Terrace | |
Moonta | Yorke Peninsula | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, life of the copper miners | |
Moonta | Yorke Peninsula | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, tour of the former copper mine | |
Morgan Museum | Morgan | Riverland | Local history | website, located in 3 sites, includes farming, riverboat trade, pumping station for the Morgan to Whyalla pipeline, horse-drawn vehicles |
Burra | Mid North | Technology | information, restored mining engine house | |
Wangary | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, shearing, farming and fishing tools and artifacts | |
Mount Gambier | Limestone Coast | Law enforcement | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Whyalla | Eyre Peninsula | Multiple | website, information, includes early 20th century homestead, workman's cottage, shed with stationary engines, telecommunications museum, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery | Murray Bridge | Art | website | |
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Adelaide | Adelaide | Adelaide | Archaeology | Archaeology of Etruria, ancient Greece and ancient Rome, part of the University of Adelaide |
Nangwarry | Limestone Coast | Forestry | website | |
Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Art | website, traditional and contemporary visual arts including etchings by John C. Goodchild, aboriginal prints, paintings and ceramics, furniture and social history items | |
Naracoorte Caves National Park | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Natural history | Fossils found in the caves on display in the Wonambi Fossil Centre |
National Military Vehicle Museum | Salisbury | Adelaide suburbs | Military | Trucks, tanks, uniforms, artillery |
National Motor Museum, Birdwood | Birdwood | Adelaide Hills | Transportation | Automobiles, motorcycles, model cars |
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Railway | Locomotives, rolling stock, historic buildings and equipment |
Cleve | Eyre Peninsula | Agriculture | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia in the Cleve Old Council Chambers, open by appointment | |
Old Government House, South Australia | Belair National Park | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | Former summer residence of the Governors of South Australia |
Coober Pedy | Far North | Mining | website, opal mining | |
Olivewood | Renmark | Riverland | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 1880s period house with a working orangery and olive trees |
Lobethal | Adelaide Hills | Textile | website | |
Parndana | Kangaroo Island | Local history | information, history of the soldier settlement scheme on the island after World War II | |
Penneshaw | Kangaroo Island | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Peterborough | Mid North | Transportation | website, rare and interesting motorcycles and artefacts | |
Sevenhill | Mid North | Ethnic | website, contribution of Polish migrants to the development of the State | |
Port Elliot | Fleurieu Peninsula | Railway | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Port Lincoln Railway Museum | Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Railway | website |
Port MacDonnell | Limestone Coast | Local history | website | |
Milang | Local history | information | ||
Port Pirie | Mid North | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Port Pirie | Mid North | Art | website | |
Port Pirie | Mid North | Military | website | |
Port Victoria Maritime Museum | Minlaton | Yorke Peninsula | Maritime | Sailing ships, sailing crews, shipwrecks |
Prospect Hill Historical Museum | Meadows | Adelaide Hills | Local history | information |
Olary | Local history | information, history of Radium Hill uranium mine | ||
Kadina | Yorke Peninsula | Military | information | |
Redruth Gaol | Burra | Mid North | Prison | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, mid 19th century prison |
Riddoch Art Gallery | Mount Gambier | Limestone Coast | Art | website |
Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Toy | website, dolls, bears and toys from 20th century | |
Prospect | Adelaide suburbs | Biographical | website, life of R. M. Williams and products of his company | |
Robe | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Roseworthy | Adelaide suburbs | Agriculture | website, history and the development of agricultural machinery, much of which was invented in South Australia | |
The Round House | Murray Bridge | Murraylands | Local history | Homestead museum documenting the early development of the town of Murray Bridge. |
Ruston's Classic Car Museum | Renmark | Riverland | Automotive | website, vintage and historic racing cars |
Samstag Museum of Art | Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | Part of the University of South Australia, contemporary art |
Wilmington | Flinders Ranges | Puppetry | information, puppets, marionettes and ventriloquist dolls | |
Santos Museum of Economic Botany | Adelaide | Adelaide | Natural history | website, part of Adelaide Botanic Garden, botanical specimens and art |
Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Farming | website, sheep raising and the wool industry, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
South Australian Aviation Museum | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Aerospace | Displays aircraft and aircraft engines of relevance to South Australia |
South Australian Maritime Museum | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Maritime | Immigration to South Australia, maritime history, fleet of historic ships |
Victor Harbor | Fleurieu Peninsula | Natural history | website, whales and regional marine life | |
South Australian Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Natural history | Natural history museum and research institution |
South Australia Police Historical Society | Thebarton | Adelaide suburbs | Law enforcement | History of South Australia Police and of law enforcement in South Australia |
Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Art | website | |
Stangate House and Garden | Aldgate | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 1940s house with camellia gardens |
Stansbury Museum | Stansbury | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, 1910 period rooms, collections of clothing, gemstones, bottles, shells and dolls, farming, industry |
SteamRanger | Adelaide Hills | Adelaide Hills | Railway | Heritage railway using broad gauge steam locomotives |
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre | Peterborough | Mid North | Railway | |
Strathalbyn | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, 19th century police station and courthouse with Victorian period rooms | |
Streaky Bay | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
St John Ambulance Historical Society of South Australia | Unley | Adelaide suburbs | Medical | information |
Swan Reach Museum | Swan Reach | Local history | information[permanent dead link] | |
Tailem Rail Museum | Tailem Bend | Railway | information | |
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute | Adelaide | Adelaide | Arts | Specialises in Indigenous Australian art including visual art, music and storytelling |
Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum | Tea Tree Gully | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, a member of National Trust of South Australia, lifestyles of residents in the Tea Tree Gully area from the 1850s to 1950s, (name change in 2015 from Old Highercombe Hotel Museum), Accredited museum in History Trust of SA's Museums and Collections (MaC) program. |
Terowie | Mid North | Local history | information | |
Tramway Museum, St Kilda | St Kilda | Adelaide suburbs | Railway | Large collection of trams, some of which are used to carry visitors to the St Kilda Adventure Playground. |
Tumby Bay | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Hindmarsh | Adelaide suburbs | Ethnic | information, Ukrainian history and artisan traditions | |
Uleybury School Museum | One Tree Hill | Adelaide suburbs | Education | information |
Coober Pedy | Far North | Mining | website, opal mining, fossils, aboriginal heritage, dugout homes | |
Unley Museum | Unley | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website |
Urlwin Park Agricultural Museum | Balaklava | Mid North | Agriculture | information, farm tractors, equipment, tools, vehicles, buildings |
Urrbrae House | Urrbrae | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the University of Adelaide, late 19th century mansion |
Wallaroo | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia | |
Willunga | Adelaide suburbs | Law enforcement | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, courthouse complex including cells, stable and police residence | |
Willunga | Adelaide suburbs | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in the Courthouse Museum stables, area slate mining | |
Winn's Bakehouse | Coromandel Valley | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia |
Whyalla | Eyre Peninsula | Maritime | website, includes the landlocked HMAS Whyalla (J153), a Bathurst class corvette museum ship | |
Yankalilla | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | information |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ 'About the Architecture Museum,' http://w3.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/architecturemuseum/about.asp Archived 30 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ Saddler, Peg (2006). Forty Years of Embroidery: The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia 1965–2005. Norwood, South Australia: Peacock Publications. pp. 51–52. ISBN 192100827X.
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