• Adventuring Down Under
    Beautiful stained glass window at the South Australian Museum — Adelaide, SA.
    Headdress made from sticks, hair string, and emu feathers ... SAM — Adelaide, SA."Mulga Seed" by P. Nampijinpa ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Owl figure pot by K.P. Enalanga ... SAM — Adelaide, SA."Kondoli, the Keeper of Fire" ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Mother of pearl carving ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Tiwi Island funeral poles used in Pukumani ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Bark paintings by Kunwinjku artist G. Djayhgurrnga ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Replica of room in Mawson's Antarctic cabin ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Hollows left by Dickinsonia specimens on the sea floor ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Cryogenian stromatolite reefs ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Collage of mineral samples ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Pieces of two meteorites that fell on Australia ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Opalized collarbone of a small plesiosaur from Coober Pedy ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.The Addyman Pleiosaur is estimated as being 115 million years old ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Coffin lid for Osiris-Nakht... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Trobriand Island kula trading canoe ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Helmut mask from Papua New Guinea ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.Memorial poles from Central Asmat ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.From Papua New Guinea ... SAM — Adelaide, SA.

    Adelaide: South Australian Museum

    April 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F

    When we decided to book the Atura Hotel @ Adelaide Airport, we knew we would need transportation to get into the city today to do a bit of sightseeing. Our research showed that there were two public buses that left from the airport that would work for us … a 5-minute walk from the hotel.

    So, after breakfast, we walked over to the bus stop, bought our day passes, hopped on the J2 bus, got off on Greenfell Street in the CBD, and cut through Rundle Mall to get to the South Australian Museum (SAM) … with a short coffee break at Caffe da Marco since we had some time to kill before the museum opened at 10:00a.

    Google bills SAM as a natural history museum. It is more than that. Exhibits range from the first signs of early complex life and some of the oldest rocks in the world (3,600 million years old), to a comprehensive collection of Aboriginal culture, to minerals from all over the world and Australian meteorites, to taxidermied animals, to artifacts from Pacific Cultures, to the Australian Polar Collection … heavily focused on Mawson’s expedition, to Ancient Egypt artifacts … including a couple of mummies, and more.

    We thoroughly enjoyed the museum … and were especially left in awe of the Addyman Plesiosaur, the finest known opalized fossil anywhere in the world.    Read more