At just 17 years old, Maya Hughes already has years of photography experience and several competition wins behind her. This year, she is a finalist in the Junior category of the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition with her photograph, Percival’s Pearl.

A striking 2.8m high slit drum from Vanuatu, alongside several music objects never before exhibited, is set to feature in a new pop-up display at the South Australian Museum celebrating Pacific cultural traditions.

If you had to pick the countries where invasive species pose the biggest problems, you probably wouldn’t think of Australia. But Australia is one of the top three nations affected by feral species, after the United States and New Zealand.

Deep beneath the deserts of western and central Australia lies a hidden world. A world of idyllic island archipelagos – idyllic that is if you’re a blind, wingless water beetle.

Broome-based professional drone photographer Matt Deakin has been named the 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year with Ethereal Encounter.

A blueprint for the future of research and collections at the South Australian Museum has been launched at a gathering of researchers, collection managers and preservation specialists in Adelaide today.

Kaurna knowledge holders and experts have been invited by the South Australian Museum to express their interest in joining a new Kaurna Expert Focus Working Group to help guide the development of the Kaurna Living Cultural Garden Project at the South Australian Museum.

National Science Week has officially launched in South Australia, with science enthusiasts gathering at the South Australian Museum’s Science Centre on Friday evening (14 August) for a celebration of discovery, creativity and hands-on science.

Prayer, song and dance have led a moving cultural gathering in the South Australian Museum’s Pacific Cultures Gallery.

South Australian Museum Director Dr Samantha Hamilton has marked the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the Ediacara Biota with a visit to the 555-million-year-old fossil beds.

The South Australian Museum has commemorated NAIDOC Week with an exhibition of posters marking its 2026 theme: 50 Years Deadly.

The South Australian Museum is commencing a major conservation and cultural care program for its Pacific Cultures collection.

A beautifully-luminous glass crown has been named a clear winner of the South Australian Museum’s Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize People’s Choice award.

100 incredible images have been shortlisted by the South Australian Museum as part of this year’s Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition.

Today marks the 170th anniversary of the establishment of the South Australian Museum.

The winner of the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize Emerging Artist category is giving a voice to extinct animals.

The South Australian Museum joins the McCabe family to celebrate the 40th anniversary of our valued partner Gerard McCabe Jewellers.

Aboriginal stockman Thomas Cowell has been buried on Country during National Reconciliation Week after 60 years in the care of the South Australian Museum.

Learn all about the South Australian Museum’s Aboriginal Family History Project as we celebrate National Reconciliation Week.

Researchers at the South Australian Museum have marked International Day for Biological Diversity with a roll call of taxonomical accomplishments.

Peter Elliott may not like to admit it, but the mineralogist is at the heart of what it means to volunteer.

A little-known leader in the repatriation of secret and sacred items to Aboriginal communities is being fondly remembered as the South Australian Museum celebrates International Museum Day (18 May).

A huge collection of meticulously documented shells donated to the South Australian Museum is providing valuable glimpse at life on the seashore.

A South Australian Museum honorary researcher has discovered an incredible three new species of moth in a single night.

Adelaide will welcome museum and natural history experts from around the world in November 2026.

Deb McKay was on a family holiday to the beach when the devastation of South Australia’s toxic algal bloom really hit home.

Adelaide artist Deb McKay named winner of the South Australian Museum’s 2026 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

A decades-old photograph has hinted that a ghost population of tiny possums is hiding at the tip of the Yorke Peninsula.

The South Australian Museum has announced a shortlist of 74 finalists for the 2026 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

A small marsupial collected in the wilds of New Guinea but forgotten for almost three decades has been found to be an entirely new species.

Let us introduce you to the giant trilobite found in South Australia's back yard that regally ruled the seas more than half a billion years ago.

Research conducted by the South Australian Museum has played a crucial role in a World Heritage bid for the Flinders Ranges reaching an important milestone.

The 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition becomes one of the most successful in the competition’s 23-year history.

A burst in biological change among Australian sea snakes has perfectly supported hard-to-prove theories predicting rapid but sporadic “pulses” in evolution.

A chance meeting between two science luminaries has delivered a series of beautiful scientific illustrations celebrating one of South Australia’s most significant fossil deposits.

The South Australian Museum is moving millions of items in its world-famous collection to a new dedicated storage facility - a job that has become a huge game of Tetris.

Recently appointed South Australian Museum Director Dr Samantha Hamilton has visited the World Heritage listed Naracoorte Caves.

A vibrant exhibition celebrating a groundbreaking literature program at a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory has proudly opened at the South Australian Museum.

A glorious landscape full of colour and drama has been named the People’s Choice winner of the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

Two decades of dedicated research by an adventurous South Australian Museum scientist has given us all a glimpse at a new world of tiny but fantastic beasts.

An analysis by the South Australian Museum of a suspected meteorite strike on a moving vehicle near Port Germein in late October could not determine what caused the impact.

A three-year South Australian Museum project to preserve culturally-significant textiles from the Pacific islands is nearing completion.

The South Australian Museum has issued a call for entries for the 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

Three of the South Australian Museum’s most unlikely roommates are all packed up and ready to begin a long-awaited journey to their new forever home.

The exclusive Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard exhibition has become the South Australian Museum’s most successful ticketed event to date.

A new educational resource is bringing South Australia's 550-million-year old Ediacara back to life in fabulous 3D.

A 20-year project at the South Australian Museum to transcribe and digitise the extensive diaries of renowned explorer Sir Douglas Mawson is nearing completion.

South Australian Museum scientists have begun investigating a possible meteorite impact on a moving vehicle in the State’s north.

The fourth and final burial mound at Kaurna’s Wangayarta is being prepared for the next Kaurna reburial ceremony.

Andrew Gall is many things, but he never considered himself an artist - until he won the Waterhouse.

An unlikely and long-forgotten theft of hundreds of precious butterflies by a ‘gentleman adventurer’ is still being felt by the South Australian Museum almost 80 years later.

Renowned South Australian Museum researcher Jim Gehling AO has received one of the state’s most prestigious science awards.

After 11 attempts and 11 times a finalist, underwater photographer Ross Gudgeon has been named Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

A partnership between the South Australian Museum and Wikipedia has led to a remarkable increase in interest about polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.

Offer some school students an opportunity to name a new species of tiny black parasitoid wasp, and they come up with … darthvaderi.

A young Warlpiri man who is helping his community re-connect with Country through his work at the South Australian Museum has been award a prestigious Churchill Fellowship.

Little Lincoln loves dinosaurs, fossils and the South Australia Museum.

For decades, beach comber and naturalist Trevor John Smith wandered Adelaide’s metropolitan beaches collecting seashells.

The South Australian Museum has repatriated 19 treasured objects dating from the 1800s back to the Larrakia people in the Northern Territory.

Dr Samantha Hamilton has been announced as the new director of the South Australian Museum.

At first glimpse it was just a black rock bound up in some mallee roots, found while clearing land in 2015.

A team of researchers including South Australian Museum bioinformatics specialist Terry Bertozzi has discovered a remarkable incidence of convergent evolution in skinks battling highly-venomous snakes in an evolutionary arms race.

A psychedelic inside-out macro view of a cauliflower soft coral has been named winning image of the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

Two Māori wooden carvings from the South Australian Museum’s World Cultures collection have gone on display before their repatriation back to Aotearoa (New Zealand) next month.

A Call for Entries has been issued for one of Australia’s most prestigious and richest art prizes.

National Science Week has been launched with a glittering ceremony at the South Australian Museum.

A megafan has joined the South Australian Museum to bid farewell to its hugely successful Treasures of the Viking Age: the Galloway Hoard exhibition.

They may be much maligned, eating holes in our clothes and spoiling barbeques as they zoom around the light, but moths play a crucial role in the web of life.

The ringing sonorous calls of our fabulous treefrogs can be heard from the tropical forests of the New Guinean highlands to the desert sands of central Australia.

The South Australian Museum has opened a spectacular exhibit of critical minerals, including rare earth elements.

A small but powerful exhibition of historically significant Aboriginal paintings has opened at the South Australian Museum.

The South Australian Museum will join NAIDOC Week (6-13 July) celebrations this year with a host of activities. 

A delegation of senior Māori living in South Australia has visited the South Australian Museum’s Netley facility to view important cultural items from the Museum’s collection.

The South Australian Museum has released the shortlisted images for the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

The third and final late-night opening for the South Australian Museum’s month-long Viking Festival promises an evening of fine wine and song, along with a touch of glitter and glam.

The South Australian Museum has taken delivery of two new ultra-freezers, to safely store precious tissue samples.

It’s not something you’d expect to find down under the stairs, in a basement. But there Miss Siam - or what’s left of her - stands, in tribute to a bygone age.

A medieval market, tavern full of mead and even a wooden longship will highlight the South Australian Museum’s VikingFest.

The South Australian Museum will host the second of its late-night events this Friday 13 June as it steps up celebrations for its month-long Viking Festival.

The South Australian Museum celebrates World Ocean Day (Sunday 8 June) with news a rare seabird has been confirmed living in Australian waters.

If you’re looking for something social to do after work on Friday night, why not get all medieval with the South Australian Museum.

The hole in the parched rock on the side a gentle hill in the Flinders Rangers is about the size of a backyard swimming pool.

In 1975, some students from Mawson High School returned from a climb through the parched hills while on a science excursion to the remote Chamber’s Gorge in the Flinders Ranges.

The South Australian Museum has announced a month-long Viking Festival to celebrate its hugely popular Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard exhibition.

The differences in the bees studied by South Australian Museum evolutionary biologist Remko Leijs are so tiny, they can only be seen through a microscope.

Clare Mockler has been announced as the new Executive Director of Arts South Australia and is currently Acting Director of the South Australian Museum.

One of Europe’s most important archaeological finds of the century is set to be showcased in a landmark exhibition at the South Australian Museum from 8 February to 27 July 2025.