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July 2, 2025
South Australian Museum celebrates NAIDOC Week
The South Australian Museum will join NAIDOC Week (6-13 July) celebrations this year with a host of activities.
June 25, 2025
Emotional viewing of Museum’s Māori collection
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.
June 20, 2025
Nature photography at its best
The South Australian Museum has released the shortlisted images for the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
June 16, 2025
Glitter and glam promised for the Museum’s Galloway Jewellery Jam
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.
June 13, 2025
Heavy lifting maintains the deep freeze
The South Australian Museum has taken delivery of two new ultra-freezers, to safely store precious tissue samples.
June 12, 2025
South Australian Museum’s elephant in the room
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.
June 11, 2025
Polish your chainmail and string your beard beads for VikingFest
A medieval market, tavern full of mead and even a wooden longship will highlight the South Australian Museum’s VikingFest.
June 10, 2025
An evening celebrating rare trades and artisans from the Viking Age
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.
June 6, 2025
Age is no barrier to seabird breakthrough
The South Australian Museum celebrates World Ocean Day (Sunday 8 June) with news a rare seabird has been confirmed living in Australian waters.
May 30, 2025
Medieval Music and Mead at the Museum
If you’re looking for something social to do after work on Friday night, why not get all medieval with the South Australian Museum.
May 28, 2025
South Australia’s latest window into an alien world
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.
May 22, 2025
Chance discovery leads to decades of volunteering
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.
May 21, 2025
The Vikings are coming! Let’s celebrate with some mead
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.
May 20, 2025
New bee research reveals a pot of gold
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.
February 11, 2025
South Australian Museum Acting Director
Clare Mockler has been announced as the new Executive Director of Arts South Australia and is currently Acting Director of the South Australian Museum.
February 6, 2025
Viking Age Treasure Comes To 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.
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