South Australian Museum
About South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands. It has the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural collection in the world, and its Australian Polar collection includes many artefacts from early Antarctic exploration by South Australian scientists and explorers. It also holds a large collection of minerals; over three million animal specimens ; and around 50,000 fossil specimens. The Museum Library includes reference works relevant to the museum research, as well as being a source of specialised publications and photographs for other researchers.
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There's a boomerang that went up into space in the South Australian Museum. They showed that if you throw a boomerang in space, it still comes back to you.
from No Such Thing As A Boomerang Shaped Spaceship, 2024-11-21 at 00:10:50 · read transcript
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Coordinates: -34.9208, 138.6030