South Australian Museum

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The South Australian Museum is a major natural history and cultural institution in Adelaide renowned for its extensive collections in anthropology, paleontology, and biodiversity, including one of the world’s most significant assemblages of Australian Aboriginal cultural material.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural institution
museum
natural history museum
collectionSize over four million objects and specimens
country Australia
focusesOn First Nations cultures
human history
natural history
foundedIn 1856
hasAbbreviation SAM
hasCollectionType Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Ancient Egypt

Australian Aboriginal cultural material
Pacific cultures
anthropology
biodiversity
mineralogy
palaeontology
hasExhibitionTheme Australian Aboriginal cultures
Pacific cultures
South Australian biodiversity
fossils and evolution
hasFacility collection stores
education spaces
exhibition galleries
research laboratories
hasMission to inspire in all people a wonder and curiosity about life on Earth
hasResearchProgramIn anthropology
biological sciences
earth sciences
palaeontology
hasSignificantCollection Australian Aboriginal cultural material
Pacific cultural material
South Australian biodiversity specimens
fossils
hasWebsite https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/
locatedIn Adelaide
South Australia
locatedOn North Terrace
surface form: North Terrace cultural precinct
near Art Gallery of South Australia
State Library of South Australia
openToPublic yes
operatedBy Government of South Australia
ownedBy Government of South Australia
regionServed Australia
South Australia
streetAddress North Terrace

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Art Gallery of South Australia adjacentTo South Australian Museum
Adelaide culturalInstitution South Australian Museum