Corporate Body

Kyancutta Museum (1929 - 1971)

From
1929
Kyancutta, South Australia, Australia
To
1971
Functions
Museum

Summary

The Kyancutta Museum was opened in 1929 by Robert Bedford, resident of Kyancutta on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Freely open to the public, the Museum's objectives were broadly to promote research particularly in relation to the Peninsula and the north western parts of South Australia, and to support museum, library and educational activities in country districts. The Museum was built to house Bedford's personal collections, which included South Australian palaeontological specimens, meteorites from Henbury in Central Australia, and Bedford's personal museum, left in the United Kingdom when he came to Australia and sent by his sister in 1923. Much of Bedford's well-regarded palaeontological research was published in the Memoirs of the Kyancutta Museum between 1934 and 1939. Many of the Museum's meteorites were sold to the Australian National University 1961-2 and are housed in the Research School of Earth Sciences as the Bedford Meteorite Collection. In 1971 it was decided to close the Museum and sell the collections. The National Museum of Victoria bought almost all the remaining meteorites, minerals and fossils.

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Books

  • Laube, Sylvia, Robert Bedford of Kyancutta (Norwood, S.A.: The Wednesday Press, 1990), 160 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cooper, B. J., 'Historical perspective: the Kyancutta Museum', Geological Survey of South Australia, quarterly notes, 103 (1987), 2-3. Details
  • Cooper, Barry J. and Jago, James B., 'Robert Bedford (1874 1951), the Kyancutta museum, and a unique contribution to international geology', Earth sciences history, 37 (2) (2018), 416-43. https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6178-37.2.416. Details
  • Lowden, J., 'Robert Bedford and the Kyancutta Institute', Useful knowledge: the magazine of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria, 44 (2017), 9-12. Details
  • Luscombe, Ned and Luscombe, Margaret, 'Robert Bedford and the Kyancutta Institute', Useful knowledge: the magazine of the Mechanics’ Institute of Victoria, 44 (2017), 9-12. Details

See also

  • Brett-Crowther, M. R., 'Buddicom, Robert Arthur (1874-1951), scientist and local entrepreneur' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 475-476. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070478b.htm. Details

Helen Cohn

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