List of museums in South Australia

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This list of museums in South Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.

Name  | Location  | Region  | Type  | Summary

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Adelaide Gaol | Thebarton | Adelaide suburbs | Prison | Preserved historic prison and function centre
Adelaide Lithuanian Museum | Norwood | Adelaide suburbs | Ethnic | website, Lithuanian life and culture
Adelaide Masonic Centre Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Masonic | website
Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse Museum | Andamooka | Eyre Peninsula | Mining | information, opal mining, located in a building built from discarded beer bottles
Architecture Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Architecture | website, part of the University of South Australia, collection of documents related to the history and practice of architecture in South Australia[1]
Ardrossan Historical Museum | Ardrossan | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in the Clarence Herbert Smith Implement Factory where the stump-jump plough and other farm machinery were manufactured
Army Museum of South Australia | Keswick | Adelaide suburbs | Military | website, located in Keswick Barracks,
Art Gallery of South Australia | Adelaide | Adelaide | Visual arts | Largest state art collection in Australia
Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga | Port Noarlunga | Adelaide suburbs | Art | website
Austbuilt Maritime Museum | Peterhead | Adelaide suburbs | Maritime | website, operated by the Port Adelaide Historical Society
Australian Museum of Childhood | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Toy | information, Australian manufactured toys dating back to the 1890s
Axel Stenross Maritime Museum | Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Maritime | website, boats and boat building, area maritime heritage
Ayers House (Adelaide) | Adelaide | Adelaide | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 19th mansion with costumes, silverware, artworks and furniture
Balaklava Museum | Balaklava | Mid North | Local history | website
Barbed Wire Pub and Museum | Spalding | Mid North | Commodity | website, features over 500 examples of barbed wire
Barossa Museum | Tanunda | Barossa Valley | Local history | website, area German heritage
Barossa Regional Gallery | Tanunda | Barossa Valley | Art | website
Bay Discovery Centre | Glenelg | Adelaide suburbs | Multiple | website, cultural heritage of South Australia, history, art
Beachport Old Wool and Grain Store Museum | Beachport | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Bon Accord Mining Museum | Burra | Mid North | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Booleroo Steam & Traction Preservation Society Museum | Booleroo Centre | Flinders Ranges | Technology | website, steam tractors and agriculture equipment
Bourne's Bird Museum | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Natural history | information, mounted birds, nests and mammals, bird's eggs
Brinkworth Historical Reserve Museum | Brinkworth | Mid North | Local history | information
Bublacowie Military Museum | Between Minlaton and Yorketown | Yorke Peninsula | Military | information
Burra Regional Art Gallery | Burra | Mid North | Art | website
Cape Jaffa Lighthouse | Kingston SE | Limestone Coast | Maritime | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, furnished lighthouse with tower to climb
Captain's Cottage Museum | Murray Bridge |  | Historic house | information
Carrick Hill | Springfield | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | Mid 20th century mansion with collection of drawings, sculptures, antiques and paintings
The Cedars (Australia) | Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | website, house and studio of landscape artist Hans Heysen
Ceduna School House Museum | Ceduna | Eyre Peninsula | Education | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia
Charles Sturt Museum | Grange | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, home of explorer Charles Sturt
Chas Roe Electronics Museum | Wallaroo | Yorke Peninsula | Technology | website, electrical appliances and devices including the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, sound and video recorders, home appliances, medical equipment, computers, TV games and more
Clare Police Station and Courthouse | Jamestown | Mid North | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Classic Jets Fighter Museum | Parafield | Adelaide suburbs | Aerospace |
Clayton Farm Heritage Museum | Bordertown | Limestone Coast | Farm | Late 19th century farmstead with historical thatched buildings and sheds, restored historical farm machinery and stationary engines
Cobdogla Irrigation Museum | Cobdogla | Riverland | Technology | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, steam pump, locomotive, traction engine, tractors, machinery and irrigation equipment
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia | Adelaide | Adelaide | Arts | Contemporary art
Crystal Brook Heritage Centre | Crystal Brook | Mid North | Local history | information
Dingley Dell | Port MacDonnell | Limestone Coast | Historic house | website, home of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon
Edithburgh Museum | Edithburgh | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | information
Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Museum | Mile End | Adelaide suburbs | Textile | website, embroidered, beaded, patchwork and lace pieces – the collection started in 1965 became known officially as the Embroiderers' Guild Museum in 1988.[2]
Encounter Coast Discovery Centre | Victor Harbor | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in a former Customs house and station master's residence
Enfield Heritage Museum | Regency Park | Adelaide suburbs | Open air | information, town and country life in South Australia from the 1880s to more recent times
Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery | Eudunda |  | Local history | website
Excell Blacksmith and Engineering Workshop Museum | Tumby Bay | Eyre Peninsula | History | information
Farm Shed Museum | Kadina | Yorke Peninsula | Agriculture | website, farm machinery, role of women on farms, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Fayes Underground Home | Coober Pedy | Far North | Historic house | information, furnished dugout home
Flinders University Museum of Art | Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | website, part of Flinders University
Fort Glanville Conservation Park | Semaphore South | Adelaide suburbs | Military | 19th century fort
Fred Teague's Museum | Hawker | Flinders Ranges | History | website, information, includes gemstones, minerals, fossils, photographs, antique bottles and memorabilia
Friedensberg Historic German School Museum | Springton | Barossa Valley | Education | information
Gamble Cottage | Blackwood | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Gawler Old Telegraph Station Museum | Gawler | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Glencoe Woolshed | Glencoe | Limestone Coast | Farming | website, 19th century blade shearing and wool handling shed, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Goolwa Motor Museum | Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Automotive | information
Goolwa Museum | Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Greenock Aviation Museum | Greenock | Barossa Valley | Aerospace | information, preserved and replica aircraft, restoration projects, scale models and aviation memorabilia
Hahndorf Academy | Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Multiple | website, regional art gallery, local history, German migration, drawings of Hans Heysen
Hindmarsh Fire & Folk Museum | Hindmarsh | Adelaide suburbs | Firefighting | website, equipment, clothing and vehicles, operated by the Hindmarsh Historical Society
Holdfast Bay History Centre | Brighton | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website
Hope Cottage Museum | Kingscote | Kangaroo Island | Historic house | website, website, mid 19th century period cottage with period rooms, local history displays, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Jamestown Railway Station and Goods Shed Museum | Jamestown | Mid North | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Jill and Vic Fauser's Private Museum | Port Neill | Eyre Peninsula | History | information, includes stationary engines, a blacksmith shop, shells, rocks and bottles, historic household items
Kapunda Community Gallery | Kapunda | Mid North | Art | website
Kapunda Museum | Kapunda | Mid North | Local history | information
Kerry Packer Civic Gallery | Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | website, part of the University of South Australia
Kimba Historical Museum | Kimba | Eyre Peninsula | Open air | information
Kingston Historic House | Kingston Park | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | website, mid 19th century home of George Strickland Kingston
Kingston National Trust Museum | Kingston SE | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Koppio Smithy Museum | Koppio | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, information, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Lobethal Archives and Historical Museum | Lobethal | Adelaide Hills | Local history | information, German and English pioneer heritage
Lochend | Cambelltown | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | information, mid 19th century home of the town's founder
Louise Flierl Mission Museum | Hahndorf | Adelaide Hills | Religious | information, history of the Lutheran Church of Australia in Papua New Guinea and more recently in South East Asia since 1886
Loxton Historical Village | Loxton | Riverland | Open air | website, includes a baker, bank, blacksmith, garage, printer, farm complex, railway, institute, school, operational fruit block and more
Lucindale Agricultural and Folk Museum | Lucindale | Limestone Coast | Local history | information, operated by the Lucindale Historical Society
Mallala Museum | Mallala |  | Local history | website
Mallee Tourist and Heritage Centre | Pinnaroo | Murray Mallee | Local plus specialities | information Murray Mallee dryland farming, plus D. A. Wurfel grain collection; extensive range restored farm machinery including replica Ridley stripper; letterpress printing
Malowen Lowarth Cottage | Burra | Mid North | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, mid 19th century period stone cottage
Mannum Dock Museum Of River History | Mannum |  | Local history | information, includes a paddle steamer, dry dock, local history exhibits, fossils, Aboriginal people
Market Square Museum | Burra | Mid North | History | information, late 19th century period general store and shopkeeper's residence
Martindale Hall | Mintaro | Mid North | Historic house | Owned by the University of Adelaide, leased as heritage museum and boutique hotel
Mary MacKillop Interpretive Centre | Penola | Limestone Coast | Biographical | Based on the life and achievements of Mary MacKillop and Father Julian Tenison Woods
Mary MacKillop Museum Adelaide  | Kensington  | Adelaide suburb  | Social history  | Life and work of Mary MacKillop, Julian Tenison Woods and the Sisters of St Joseph, past and present
Melrose Courthouse Heritage Centre | Melrose | Flinders Ranges | Local history | website
Meningie Cheese Factory Museum | Meningie |  | Local history | website,
Migration Museum, Adelaide | Adelaide | Adelaide | Cultural | Immigration and settlement history of South Australia
Milang Historic Railway Museum  | Milang | Fleurieu | Railway  | South Australian Railway and Light Railway displays, many interactive, information
Mill Cottage Museum | Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Historic house | information
Millicent Living History Museum | Millicent | Limestone Coast | Local history | information
Millicent Museum | Millicent | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, features restored buggies, carriages and wagons, a machinery shed
Minlaton Museum | Minlaton | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
MOD. Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Future | website, situated in the University_of_South_Australia CRI building on North Terrace
Moonta Mining Museum | Moonta | Yorke Peninsula | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, life of the copper miners
Moonta Wheal Hughes Copper Mine | Moonta | Yorke Peninsula | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, tour of the former copper mine
Morgan Museum | Morgan | Riverland | Local history | website, located in 3 sites, includes farming, riverboat trade, pumping station for the Morgan to Whyalla pipeline, horse-drawn vehicles
Morphetts Enginehouse Museum | Burra | Mid North | Technology | information, restored mining engine house
Mount Dutton Bay Woolshed | Wangary | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, shearing, farming and fishing tools and artifacts
Mount Gambier Courthouse Museum | Mount Gambier | Limestone Coast | Law enforcement | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Mount Laura Homestead Museum | Whyalla | Eyre Peninsula | Multiple | website, information, includes early 20th century homestead, workman's cottage, shed with stationary engines, telecommunications museum, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery | Murray Bridge |  | Art | website
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Adelaide | Adelaide | Adelaide | Archaeology | Archaeology of Etruria, ancient Greece and ancient Rome, part of the University of Adelaide
Nangwarry Forestry & Logging Museum | Nangwarry | Limestone Coast | Forestry | website
Naracoorte Art Gallery | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Art | website, traditional and contemporary visual arts including etchings by John C. Goodchild, aboriginal prints, paintings and ceramics, furniture and social history items
Naracoorte Caves National Park | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Natural history | Fossils found in the caves on display in the Wonambi Fossil Centre
National Military Vehicle Museum | Salisbury | Adelaide suburbs | Military | Trucks, tanks, uniforms, artillery
National Motor Museum, Birdwood | Birdwood | Adelaide Hills | Transportation | Automobiles, motorcycles, model cars
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Railway | Locomotives, rolling stock, historic buildings and equipment
National Trust Agricultural and Folk Museum | Cleve | Eyre Peninsula | Agriculture | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia in the Cleve Old Council Chambers, open by appointment
Old Government House, South Australia | Belair National Park | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | Former summer residence of the Governors of South Australia
Old Timers Mine and Museum | Coober Pedy | Far North | Mining | website, opal mining
Olivewood | Renmark | Riverland | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 1880s period house with a working orangery and olive trees
Onkaparinga Woollen Mill Museum | Lobethal | Adelaide Hills | Textile | website
Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum | Parndana | Kangaroo Island | Local history | information, history of the soldier settlement scheme on the island after World War II
Penneshaw Maritime and Folk Museum | Penneshaw | Kangaroo Island | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Peterborough Motorcycle and Antique Museum | Peterborough | Mid North | Transportation | website, rare and interesting motorcycles and artefacts
Polish Hill River Church Museum | Sevenhill | Mid North | Ethnic | website, contribution of Polish migrants to the development of the State
Port Elliot National Trust Historic Railway and Seaport Centre | Port Elliot | Fleurieu Peninsula | Railway | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Port Lincoln Railway Museum | Port Lincoln | Eyre Peninsula | Railway | website
Port MacDonnell and District Museum | Port MacDonnell | Limestone Coast | Local history | website
Port Milang Museum | Milang |  | Local history | information
Port Pirie Historic and Folk Museum | Port Pirie | Mid North | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery | Port Pirie | Mid North | Art | website
Port Pirie RSL & Military Museum | Port Pirie | Mid North | Military | website
Port Victoria Maritime Museum | Minlaton | Yorke Peninsula | Maritime | Sailing ships, sailing crews, shipwrecks
Prospect Hill Historical Museum | Meadows | Adelaide Hills | Local history | information
Radium Hill Museum | Olary |  | Local history | information, history of Radium Hill uranium mine
Ray Robinson Memorial Military Museum | Kadina | Yorke Peninsula | Military | information
Redruth Gaol | Burra | Mid North | Prison | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, mid 19th century prison
Riddoch Art Gallery | Mount Gambier | Limestone Coast | Art | website
River Dolls of Goolwa | Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Toy | website, dolls, bears and toys from 20th century
R.M. Williams Outback Heritage Museum | Prospect | Adelaide suburbs | Biographical | website, life of R. M. Williams and products of his company
Robe Customs House | Robe | Limestone Coast | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Roseworthy Agricultural Museum | Roseworthy | Adelaide suburbs | Agriculture | website, history and the development of agricultural machinery, much of which was invented in South Australia
The Round House  | Murray Bridge | Murraylands  | Local history  | Homestead museum documenting the early development of the town of Murray Bridge.
Ruston's Classic Car Museum | Renmark | Riverland | Automotive | website, vintage and historic racing cars
Samstag Museum of Art | Adelaide | Adelaide | Art | Part of the University of South Australia, contemporary art
Sansouci Puppet Museum and Gallery | Wilmington | Flinders Ranges | Puppetry | information, puppets, marionettes and ventriloquist dolls
Santos Museum of Economic Botany | Adelaide | Adelaide | Natural history | website, part of Adelaide Botanic Garden, botanical specimens and art
Sheep's Back Museum | Naracoorte | Limestone Coast | Farming | website, sheep raising and the wool industry, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
South Australian Aviation Museum | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Aerospace | Displays aircraft and aircraft engines of relevance to South Australia
South Australian Maritime Museum | Port Adelaide | Adelaide suburbs | Maritime | Immigration to South Australia, maritime history, fleet of historic ships
South Australian Whale Centre | Victor Harbor | Fleurieu Peninsula | Natural history | website, whales and regional marine life
South Australian Museum | Adelaide | Adelaide | Natural history | Natural history museum and research institution
South Australia Police Historical Society | Thebarton | Adelaide suburbs | Law enforcement | History of South Australia Police and of law enforcement in South Australia
South Coast Regional Arts Centre | Goolwa | Fleurieu Peninsula | Art | website
Stangate House and Garden | Aldgate | Adelaide Hills | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of South Australia, 1940s house with camellia gardens
Stansbury Museum | Stansbury | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, 1910 period rooms, collections of clothing, gemstones, bottles, shells and dolls, farming, industry
SteamRanger | Adelaide Hills | Adelaide Hills | Railway | Heritage railway using broad gauge steam locomotives
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre | Peterborough | Mid North | Railway |
Strathalbyn and District Heritage Centre | Strathalbyn | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | website, 19th century police station and courthouse with Victorian period rooms
Streaky Bay Museum | Streaky Bay | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
St John Ambulance Historical Society of South Australia | Unley | Adelaide suburbs | Medical | information
Swan Reach Museum | Swan Reach |  | Local history | information[permanent dead link]
Tailem Rail Museum | Tailem Bend |  | Railway | information
Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum | Tea Tree Gully | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, a member of National Trust of South Australia, lifestyles of residents in the Tea Tree Gully area from the 1850s to 1950s, (name change in 2015 from Old Highercombe Hotel Museum), Accredited museum in History Trust of SA's Museums and Collections (MaC) program.
Tate Museum  | Adelaide  | Adelaide  | Natural History  | Extensive collection of Geological and Paleontological samples collected since 1880. Named after Ralph Tate. Information.
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute | Adelaide | Adelaide | Arts | Specialises in Indigenous Australian art including visual art, music and storytelling
Terowie Pioneer Gallery and Museums | Terowie | Mid North | Local history | information
Tramway Museum, St Kilda | St Kilda | Adelaide suburbs | Railway | Large collection of trams, some of which are used to carry visitors to the St Kilda Adventure Playground.
Tumby Bay Branch Museum | Tumby Bay | Eyre Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Ukrainian Museum (Australia) | Hindmarsh | Adelaide suburbs | Ethnic | information, Ukrainian history and artisan traditions
Uleybury School Museum | One Tree Hill | Adelaide suburbs | Education | information
Umoona Opal Mine and Museum | Coober Pedy | Far North | Mining | website, opal mining, fossils, aboriginal heritage, dugout homes
Unley Museum | Unley | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website
Urlwin Park Agricultural Museum | Balaklava | Mid North | Agriculture | information, farm tractors, equipment, tools, vehicles, buildings
Urrbrae House | Urrbrae | Adelaide suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the University of Adelaide, late 19th century mansion
Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum | Wallaroo | Yorke Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Willunga Courthouse Museum | Willunga | Adelaide suburbs | Law enforcement | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, courthouse complex including cells, stable and police residence
Willunga Slate Museum | Willunga | Adelaide suburbs | Mining | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia, located in the Courthouse Museum stables, area slate mining
Winn's Bakehouse | Coromandel Valley | Adelaide suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the National Trust of South Australia
Whyalla Maritime Museum | Whyalla | Eyre Peninsula | Maritime | website, includes the landlocked HMAS Whyalla (J153), a Bathurst class corvette museum ship
Yankalilla District Historical Museum | Yankalilla | Fleurieu Peninsula | Local history | information
Wantok Place  | North Adelaide  | Adelaide  | Artefacts  | Papua New Guinea artefacts, owned by the Lutheran Church of Australia

## See also

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* List of museums in Australia

## References

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1. ^ 'About the Architecture Museum,' http://w3.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/architecturemuseum/about.asp Archived 30 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 30 July 2012.
2. ^ Saddler, Peg (2006). Forty Years of Embroidery: The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia 1965–2005. Norwood, South Australia: Peacock Publications. pp. 51–52\. ISBN 192100827X.

* South Australian Community History: Organisations
* South Australian History Network