The Museum
The current Director, appointed in April 2007, is Professor Suzanne Miller.
The museum contains the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural artifacts in the world.
Permanent galleries include:
- Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
- South Australian Biodiversity Gallery
- World Mammals Gallery
- Mawson Gallery
- Megafauna Gallery
- Minerals and Meteorites Gallery
- Fossils Gallery
- Pacific Cultures Gallery
- Ancient Egyptian Room
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, the richest prize for natural science art in Australia and named for the museum's first curator, has been awarded annually since 2003.
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Famous quotes containing the word museum:
“The back meets the front.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2650, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“It is the space inside that gives the drum its sound.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 1189, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)