The idea of ​​creating a museum was born in England back in 1834. Today the building is a museum with a huge whale skeleton in the window is one of the business card of Adelaide.

On the sixth floor of the museum, located on the north terrace, expositions, affecting a variety of party history. For example, the museum collected huge - more than 3 thousand exhibits! - A collection of artifacts from Papua New Guinea and Oceania. Famous for the museum and a huge number of works by artists, representatives of the indigenous population of Australia and around the Pacific Basin. But, oddly enough, one of the most popular places among the visitors - a room devoted to the ancient Egyptian culture.

There is a museum and an exhibition introducing the local fauna, including Australia, extinct animals such as the Tasmanian tiger. Also here you can see a gallery of minerals, meteorites, fossils of various, and learn about the history of fossil fuels.

In the world of the South Australian Museum is famous not only for its outstanding collection of exhibits, which collected more than 150 years, but also for its advanced research. Entrance to the museum is free.