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:
“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“[A] Dada exhibition. Another one! What’s the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb ... can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?”
—Max Ernst (1891–1976)