South Australian Museum Archives, Adelaide

South Australian Museum Archives, Adelaide

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The South Australian Museum Archives was formally established in the 1940s when the Curator of Anthropology, Norman B Tindale, recognised the need to manage the collections and aid their retrieval. For further information about the archives, see http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collections/information-resources/archives.

For a history of the museum with its origins in the mid nineteenth century, see http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/about/our-history

Archive Collection Manager

To supplement the South Australian Museum’s research interests, documents have also been collected by donation, bequest and acquisition. Fellow scientists, missionaries, Indigenous organisations, artists, police inspectors, medical doctors and photographers from the mid-1800s have all contributed to the wealth of knowledge contained in the Museum archives.

South Australia Museum: Records, 1856- present.
Board for Anthropological Research: Records, 1925-1971.
N B Tindale: Records, 1920s-1990s.
F J Gillen: Records, 1875-1900s.
J G Reuther: Records, 1888-1906.
S A White: Records, 1890s-1930s.
W D Walker: Records, 1900s-1930s.
J B Birdsell: Records, 1930s-1970s.

Open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm.

By appointment only: a minimum of two weeks’ notice is required.

Revised 17 April 2018

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
• Arts and Culture (Thematic area)
• Genealogical (Thematic area)
• Indigenous (Thematic area)