South Australian Museum (1940 - )

Summary

The South Australian Museum was originally part of the South Australian Institute, a body that served as a public library, museum and art gallery from 1856 until 1940 when each institution was granted autonomy.

Related entries

Timeline

 1856 - 1940 South Australian Institute
       1940 - South Australian Museum

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'Changing of the guard in mineralogy at the South Australian Museum', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 17 (2) (2015), 58-60. Details
• Craig, B., '"Scenes hidden from other eyes" - Theodore Bevan's collection from the Gulf of Papua in the South Australian Museum', The Artefact, 33 (2010), 30-48. Details
• Hale, H. M., 'The First Hundred Years of the Museum, 1856-1956', Records of the South Australian Museum, 12 (1956), 1-225. Details
• King, John K., '1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum, Part 4', Friends of the South Australian Museum, 19 (2) (1987), 3-9. Details
• Ling, John K., '1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 2: 1956-1966', Friends of the South Australian Museum, 17 (2) (1986), 3-7. Details
• Ling, John K., '1856 and All That: Recent History of the South Australian Museum: Part 3: 1967-1976', Friends of the South Australian Museum, 28 (1) (1987), 3-9. Details
• Macphail, M. K.; and Zeidler, W,, 'Type shells from the May collection in the South Australian Museum', The Tasmanian naturalist, 50 (1977), 1-8. Details
• Macphail, M. K.; and Zeidler, W., 'Additional type shells from Tasmania in the South Australian Museum', The Tasmanian naturalist, 52 (1978), 2-6. Details
• Pring, A., 'The mineral collections of the South Australian Museum', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 6 (2000), 59-70. Details
• Rigsby, Bruce; Allen, Lindy; and Hafner, Diane, 'The legacy of Norman B. Tindale at Princess Charlotte Bay: Lamalama engagement with museum collections', Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 39 (2015), 26-72. Details
• Sutton, Peter, 'Anthropological history and the South Australian Museum', Australian Aboriginal studies, 1 (1986), 45-51. Details
• Ziedler, W., 'The Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee: 10 March 1921 - 30 October 2001', Records of the South Australian Museum, 35 (2002), 91-6. Details
• Zilio, Francesca, 'Wing-commander Tindale RAAF 284483', Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 39 (2015), 147-75. Details

Theses

• Jones, Philip G., '"A box of native things": ethnographic collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830s - 1930s', PhD thesis, University of Adelaide, 1996, 437 pp. Details

See also

• Black, J. M., 'Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks: September and October 1916 (b): botany', Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 41 (1917), 631-53. Details
• Davis, William E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Recher, Harry F. eds, Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology, volume IV (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2018), 608 pp. Details
• McCaul, Kim; and Roberts, Amy [editors], 'Norman Tindale's research legacy and the cultural heritage of indigenous Australians', Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, special edition, 39 (2015), 1-175. Details
• Nettelbeck, Amanda (and others), The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History, [web resource; undated], South Australian Government, South Australia, 2023. https://otlhistory.sa.gov.au/. Details
• Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 272. Details
• Tindale, Norman B., 'Milerum (1869?-1941), shearer and Aboriginal ethnologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 498-499. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100485b.htm. Details