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5 unusual facts about South Australian Museum


Jane Lomax-Smith

She was Interim Director of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), and is currently chair of the Board of the South Australian Museum.

On 18 August 2011 Premier Mike Rann announced that Dr Lomax-Smith had been appointed as the new chair of the South Australian Museum board.

Joseph Birdsell

He had a very mutually fertile 50-year collaboration with Norman Tindale of the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide.

Norman B. Tindale and Joseph B. Birdsell, "Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland", Records of the South Australian Museum, 7 (1), 1941-3, pp 1–9

North Road Cemetery

Edward Charles Stirling, founder of the University of Adelaide's medical school, Director of South Australian Museum, anthropologist, explorer and the first person in Australasia to introduce a bill for women's suffrage



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