Adelaide

Current name(s) of destination(s): 
Adelaide, South Australian Museum
Country: 
Australia
Destination category: 
General
Institutional history: 

The South Australian Museum, was founded 1856 as the South Australian Institute Museum, which contained both a public library and a museum. It was renamed the South Australian Museum in 1883 and became autonomous from the Art Gallery of South Australia and State Library of South Australia in 1940. The Museum’s collection area is chiefly natural history, including the largest collection of Indigenous Australian objects in the world.

Notes on distribution: 

In 1890, Rev. William Roby Fletcher​, was sent to Egypt to collect objects for the South Australia Museum. He accompanied Sir Francis Grenville and became acquainted with the work of Flinders Petrie through Hughes Hughes. The first object acquired was via Hughes from Petrie's excavations in the Fayum - a tablet of Thutmose III. 

Related archive documents

Artefacts with distributed year of excavation unknown: 
Beni Hasan
Relevant publications: 

Richards, C., Vokes, R., Inall, Y., Lowry, V. and Oreskovich, J. 2021. Egypt in Australia. Report produced for the Australian Embassy in Egypt, Cairo. 

Destination location: 
See also: 
Excavations from which artefacts are distributed: 
Related People: 
Walter Oldham Hughes-Hughes
Tags: 
Australia
Adelaide
South Australian Museum
William Fletcher