South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a state-owned natural history museum in Adelaide . Its board of directors is appointed by the governor of the Australian state of South Australia . The legal basis for the museum is the South Australian Museum Act 1976, along with other supplementary legal provisions.
The museum was founded in 1847. It is located in Adelaide's cultural hub on North Terrace. Its current name was officially given in 1939 on the recommendation of the former director Wilhelm Haacke , after it was separated from the Art Gallery and Library as the South Australian Institute Museum in the same year . The Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, and Institutes Act of 1925 was no longer the basis for government collections in South Australia. This restructuring of the museums took place through a new law, the Museum Act 1939 .
Among the fossils the collections of the Precambrian protrude Ediacaran biota forth, including the oldest known chordate -Fossil. There are also ethnographic and Egyptological collections, zoological collections (Biodiversity Gallery), a mineral collection, an exhibition on polar explorer Douglas Mawson and there is a library.
Web links
- Official website . at www.samuseum.sa.gov.au (English)
- South Australian Museum at Google Cultural Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Government of South Australia: South Australian Museum Act 1976 . at www.legislation.sa.gov.au (English)
- ^ South Australian Museum: A Potted History . at www.samuseum.sa.gov.au (English)
- ^ Government of South Australia: Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, and Institutes Act 1925 No. 1683 . on dspace.flinders.edu.au (English)
- ^ State Library of South Australia: History of the State Library of South Australia: Board members & legislation . on www.guides.slsa.sa.gov.au (English)
Coordinates: 34 ° 55 ′ 14.1 ″ S , 138 ° 36 ′ 11.2 ″ E