The Vikings are coming! To celebrate the Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard exhibition, the South Australian Museum is holding a month-long celebration, culminating in VikingFest on 28 and 29 June. Gather your horde for this two-day festival featuring a vibrant marketplace brimming with medieval-themed delights. Discover handcrafted costumes, textiles, woodwork, leather goods, […]
The Develop Well Research Group from the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide are hosting research-based activities at the Museum. Join us for fun and interactive activites, all while participating in exciting research on: 🤩 emotions 🧠 logic 👀 attention 🧩 memory Find us in the level 2 learning space at the SA […]
South Australia’s Patch Theatre is famous for making awesome interactive experiences just for kids. And guess what? In this World Premiere, they're bringing their newest creation, Superluminal, to life! Superluminal is all about cool visuals, storytelling, and playing together. Kids get to jump right into the fun with performers guiding them through a world of […]
A quiet, sensory friendly morning for visitors of all ages, their families, friends and support workers. Visitors with sensory or accessibility needs can enjoy a quieter, less crowded visit to the South Australian Museum out of hours. This is a chance to see all of the permanent galleries, and maybe discover something you’ve never noticed […]
Get curious and ready to explore! Twice a month, the South Australian Museum will be bringing STEM activities and games into the Discovery Centre and inviting our youngest visitors to explore the space. Guide your child to explore through hands on activities, read a story together, or inspire curiosity through Discover Centre objects which can […]
During National Reconciliation Week, the South Australian Museum will be hosting Indigenous Storytime Sessions from 27-31 May 2024. Museum staff are excited to read Indigenous children’s books to audiences daily at 11am and 1pm, from 27-30 May in the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery (AACG), ground floor at the Museum. On Friday 31 May at 11am […]
Make a bee-line to the South Australian Museum these school holidays for a hands-on workshop all about North Terrace’s buzziest residents. Learn all about one of nature’s hard-working pollinators: the humble bee! Join Xandra from Xannie’s Bees in the Discovery Centre where you'll create your own bee-themed plant pot to take home and encourage pollination […]
Ever wondered about your amazing brain and how it helps you to understand the world? Ever wanted to see what a research scientist does? Adelaide University School of Psychology is at the South Australian Museum these school holidays with fun, interactive games that are part of their scientific research. Children and adults are invited to […]
Dig into the fossilised past these school holidays with a hands-on workshop exploring the ancient oceans that once covered our own backyard. Join palaeontologist and artist Riley in the Learning Space, level 2, and explore fascinating fossil specimens that lived, died, and sunk to the ocean floor at different stages of the distant past, from […]
The South Australian Museum will become a forest that never sleeps when its summer exhibition GONDWANA VR: The Exhibition opens for 48 continuous hours in an epic weekend as part of the 2024 Adelaide Festival program. From 5pm Friday 8 March to 5pm Sunday 10 March, visitors will be able to roam the digital forest […]
Fresh from Sundance and SXSW film festivals, GONDWANA VR: The Exhibition has brought a touch of movie magic to the South Australian Museum. To celebrate, we've invited the gang from GooRoo Animation to help younger visitors aged 7-13 make their own eye-popping animated film. After sold-out sessions in July 2023, you'll design and sculpt your […]
Be transported to the 180-million-year-old Daintree rainforest – a wild and ancient place on the cusp of extraordinary change. A world-first multi-sensory installation distilling 100 years of climate data into a single day, this unique meditation on one of Australia’s richest ecosystems invites visitors to become lost in an evocative tribute to its lush foliage, […]
Experience exquisite music surrounded by art and history as you meander through Adelaide’s iconic galleries, museums and creative spaces on North Terrace. With over 28 pop up concerts showcasing 40 musicians, this is a unique tasting menu of wonderful chamber music. Family friendly, with short concerts, room to move on when you're ready and time […]
Night Lab: In Our Element is an after-hours, adults only, ticketed event at the South Australian Museum celebrating the four natural elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Held three times a year, the award-winning Night Lab series of themed events brings science to the community in a fun and friendly setting, allowing adults to dance, […]
The death of the dinosaurs is the most famous extinction, but it is only one of the five past mass extinction events that have decimated life on our planet. Six Extinctions is an exciting new blockbuster exhibition premiering at the South Australian Museum that follows the history of life through the five major mass extinction events on Earth. […]
Come along to the Museum after hours. Autistic visitors and those with other sensory needs can enjoy a quieter, less crowded visit to the Museum. This is a chance to see all of the museums permanent galleries, and maybe discover something you've never noticed before! This is a sensory-friendly evening for visitors of all ages […]
For the first time this special school holiday event is open to both Museum Members and non-members. Explore the museum with our singing palaeontologist Professor Flint and enjoy a night of discovery, songs, dinner and a movie, followed by breakfast and a reptile tour the next day. Fun for kids and adults alike – a […]
