South Australian Museum

The South Australian Museum on North Terrace in Adelaide is South Australia's premier natural and cultural history museum. Established in 1856, it houses extensive collections spanning natural history, geology, palaeontology and Aboriginal cultures. It is renowned for holding the world's largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material, alongside significant fossil, mineral and Pacific collections, and forms a key part of Adelaide's North Terrace cultural precinct.

Visitors can explore five floors of galleries in a historic North Terrace building within Adelaide's cultural precinct. Expect permanent galleries dedicated to Australian Aboriginal Cultures, Pacific Cultures, Ancient Egypt, fossils and minerals, opalised fossils, and South Australian biodiversity. The museum features the Ediacaran fossil collection, an Egyptian Room with mummy, extensive taxidermy and skeleton displays, and rotating temporary exhibitions. Self-guided exploration, guided tours and interactive displays are available in a central city setting.