South Australia

Phone: Phone: (08) 8303 7739
Fax: Fax: (08) 8303 7935

Historical agricultural equipment on campus managed by Gawler's Machinery Restorers' Club

(400 items; established 1970s; re-opened under above arrangement 1992; volunteer staff only)

The Centre is designed as a teaching and learning area. Students can study in private, or participate in tutorial-like assignments. With the creation of a Chair in Physical Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy, the Centre's comparative anatomy display is currently being revamped. There is a good skull collection of humans (modern and ancient) and animals. In addition, whole animal displays are being reconstructed; one in particular that has received media attention is the elephant from the Adelaide Zoo.

(500 objects; started 1885; 0.02 staff)

Research collection of cleared and stained Australopapuan amphibians (adults and larvae)

(2,700 preparations; established 1976; no staff)

Phone: (08) 8303 5239
Fax: (08) 8303 5241 or (08) 8303 3343
Email: mohea@arts.adelaide.edu.au

Museum for teaching and research; open to the public; located immediately off North Terrace. School tours welcomed but must be booked in advance during opening hours.

(784 artefacts and over 1100 coins; established 1983; 0.5 staff.)

National significance: terracotta sarcophagus and its lid with figural sculpture from the Republican period of Etruria (probably Tarquinia).

International significance: Palaeolithic and Neolithic artefacts from the Near East; 18th century Dynasty Egyptian texts; pottery from Beni Hasan in Egypt and Ur in Mesopotamia. All artefacts from late Republican and Imperial periods of Rome (including pottery and early blown glass, coins, sculptural and wall-painting fragments); a rare funerary mosaic from Edessa; papyrus texts. Also an Attic marble lekythos fragment, pottery and sculpture; South Italian pottery and rare Ptolemaic glass inlays from Alexandria.

Phone: (08) 8303 4031
Fax: (08) 8303 3417
Email: jperkins@registry.adelaide.edu.au

Includes the Adelaide University Union Art Collection. Distributed on four campuses with changing biannual exhibitions at three display venues. Illustrated guide to the collection now available.

(495 works; established 1942; 0.6 staff)

National significance: Arthur Boyd, "The Judges" and "Australian Letters" series. Julius Schomburgh, Candelabrum, 1860.

International significance: Henry Moore, Reclining Connected Forms.

Coachhouse Museum (Yvonne Routledge)
University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064
Phone: (08) 8303 6556
Fax: (08) 8303 7111
Opening hours: 9 am - 5 pm, Monday - Friday
Mawson Antartica Collection and Waite Institute Scientific Collection; used for research.
(100,000 items; established 1996; 0.8 staff and volunteers.)
National significance: photographs taken during Mawson's geology field trips outside Antartica

International significance: Mawson's Antarctic items - over 50,000 items

Phone: (08) 8303 5844
Fax: (08) 8303 4347
Email: gbuttfie@geology.adelaide.edu.au

(30,000 catalogued objects; established early this century; 0 staff)

National significance: memorabilia of Sir Douglas Mawson; Mawson Antarctic rock collection; local and interstate fossil collection; samples from stratigraphic wells; Foraminifera micropalaeontological specimens

International significance: specimens from major mines no longer in operation at such places as Broken Hill, Wallaroo and Moonta; a significant meteorite/tektite collection; sea-floor samples collected by Mawson on the BANZARE expedition (1929-39); type specimens of Tertiary fossils collected by Howchin, Tate and Tenison-Woods; an early Cambrian Archaeocyathid collection; rare Ediacaran fossils, rare minerals suitable as a standard for X-ray analyses; and collections of fossils from significant stratigraphic localities (England, Europe, Paris basin).

Phone: (08) 8303 7265
Fax: (08) 8379 4095
Email: aaustin@waite.adelaide.edu.au

(250,000 specimens; established 1928; 0.75 staff)

National and international significance: Duncan Swan Insect Collection of 300,000 specimens. It is co-located with the South Australian Research and Development Institute collection. Of particular importance are the Orthoptera, scale insects and parasitic wasps relevant to biological control. There are 250 paratypes (the holotypes of which are in the Australian National Insect Collection). The collection is described and catalogued in Austin and Burnycoczky (1990, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 114: 47-53

Phone: (08) 8303 7842
Fax: (08) 8379 4095
Email: jjenning@waite.adelaide.edu.au

Collection for undergraduate teaching, not open to public

(c. 25,000 specimens.)

Phone: (08) 8303 5641
Fax: (08) 8303 3772
Email: mlibrary@arts.adelaide.edu.au

Important historical records; used for research and teaching; significant gaps in recent material

(46,000; established 1964)

National significance: set of Edmunds maps of South Australia and other early maps
International significance: collection of World War II maps

Research collection.

(Approx 13,000 specimens, mainly plant pathogenic microfungi.)

Phone: (08) 8303 7255
Fax: (08) 8379 4095
Email: kdavies@waite.adelaide.edu.au

Research collection

Slide collections (approx 20,000); plus vials of wet material; established 1973

National and international significance: 30,000 slides of nematodes mounted in glycerol and 300 vials in fixative. It is the largest collection of Australian plant-parasitic nematodes in the world. There is a significant collection of entomophilic nematodes from Australia. The collection holds holotypic material and paratypes of 50 species, the holotypes of which are held in the South Australian and Queensland museums.

Largest Australian collection of Eocene fossil plants, no staff to allow public access

(30,000 specimens; started 1975; 0.45 staff)

(3,500 objects; established 1950; 0.5 staff)

Historical collection started on University's Centenary; some displays in building, mostly stored

(500 objects; established 1974; 0 staff)

Phone: (08) 8303 4031
Fax: (08) 8303 3417
Email: jperkins@vco.adelaide.edu.au

Opening hours: No public access

Historical collection, most of which is in storage. Database under preparation.

(224 objects; established 1983; 0.2 staff)

Phone: (08) 8303 7425
Fax: (08) 8303 7110

Historic house; conserved; and associated documentation and objects; open to the public; 200 Friends of Urrbrae House.

(550 documents, images & objects; established 1991; 0.8 staff and volunteers)

Phone: (08) 8303 7405
Fax: (08) 8303 7405
Email: jgardner@waite.adelaide.edu.au

Teaching, research and experimental trials; self-guided walking trail; guided walks first Sunday of every month, group tours at other times, by arrangement. A permanent Arboretum exhibition in Urrbrae House is in preparation.

(2,500 labelled native and introduced trees and shrubs occupying 30 hectares; established 1928; 1 staff and volunteers)

National significance: 2,400 labelled trees including 880 eucalypts (360 species), 150 banksias (50 species) and 70 ornamental pear trees (20 species), oaks (40 species). Distinguished for merit by the International Dendrology Society.

Web: http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/Arboretum

Living Collection.

(Cultures held: 20 yeasts; 10 bacteria; 0 staff)

Phone: (08) 8383 5691
Fax: (08) 8303 4364

Collection of animal material preserved and skeletal used for teaching zoology courses.

Phone: (08) 8204 4103
Fax: (08) 277 0085
Email: Carlos.Kordjian@flinders.edu.au

(? Objects; established 1976; 2 staff)

Phone: (08) 8201 2695
Fax: (08) 8201 2543
Email: museum@flinders.edu.au

Location and Opening Hours:

1) CAMPUS GALLERY
Ground Floor, Social Sciences Nth.
Opening Hours: 10am - 4pm weekdays
Dedicated Gallery area = 90 sq. metres; Gallery linear wall length = 60 metres; Gallery wall height = 3.5 metres.

2) CITY GALLERY
14 - 16 Grote St, Adelaide.
Opening Hours: 10am - 4pm Mon - Thurs, 10am - 8pm Fri, 1-4pm weekends.
Dedicated Gallery area = 132 sq. metres; Gallery linear wall length = 90 metres (including removable panels); Gallery wall height = 3 metres.

Collections of major importance with teaching and research bias; a program of changing exhibitions in both galleries utilizing the collection and other available exhibitions; part of Office of the Vice-Chancellor.

National and International: large collection of early Papunya boards; extensive collection of Australian post-object art

(3,640 items; established 1975; 3.7 staff)

Phone: (08) 201 2285
Fax: (08) 201 3015
Email:

Living Collection

(300 fungi and bacteria able to use coal as their sole carbon source)

National and international significance: unique collection of micro-organisms with unusual biological capabilities. It forms a reserve of genes for the bioconversion of recalcitrant organic molecules.

Phone: (08) 8201 5238
Fax: (08) 8201 2508
Email: Robyn.Walden@flinders.edu.au

The collection comprises antique furniture, household items, knick knacks, books and works of art.

(300 objects; established 1983.)

Phone: (08) 201 2285
Fax: (08) 201 3015
Email: David.Catcheside@flinders.edu.au

Living Collection

Two collections: one, a collection of 4,000 mutant strains of Neurospora crassa related to the regulation of genetic recombination; and two, a collection of 250 microorganisms able to catabolise low rank coal.

(Cultures held: 4,250 mutant lines relevant to molecular genetic research; established c. 1971; 0 staff, but represents the output of 100 person-years of work)

National and international significance: 4,500 strains of Neurospora crassa, the most comprehensive collection that exists of genotypes relevant to the molecular genetics of recombination.

Web: http://www.bio.flinders.edu.au/deac/deacres.htm

Phone: (08) 8204 4491
Fax: (08) 8374 1437

Primarily a teaching collection. Access by numerical keylock. Public and visitor access not permitted; restricted to medical students, medical staff, and academic staff (FMC)

(1690 objects; established 1976; 0.1 staff)

Phone: (08) 8201 2176
Fax: (08) 8201 3015
Email: greg.kirby@flinders.edu.au

Research collection, currently not active.

(1,869 objects; established 1975; 0 staff)

Phone: (08) 302 6781
Fax: (08) 302 6789
Email: Christine.Mells@unisa.edu.au

(Described in catalogue)

Phone: (08) 8302 0870
Fax: (08) 8302 0866
Email: erica.green@unisa.edu.au

Dedicated Gallery area = 400 sq.metres; Gallery linear wall length = 80 sq. metres; Gallery wall height = 2.9 metres. Artworks distributed throughout campus; large gallery with vigorous community programs

Gallery opening hours during exhibitions are Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 2 - 5pm and on Sundays for special exhibitions. The Art Museum gallery is closed on public holidays. For exhibition information, telephone (08) 8302 0870.

The Art Museum conducts exhibition, acquisition, publication and forum programs which seek to strengthen the University's community role in fostering the arts and its educational contribution to the academic communities.

(400 objects; established 1991; 2.0 staff)
Gallery area: 190 sq metres, Linear 60 metres. Wall height: Gallery one: 5 metres; Gallery two: 2.5 metres.
National and international significance: Max Hart collection of 56 Aboriginal bark paintings, and the 1,000 items in the Chamberlain pottery collection.

Web: http://www.unisa.edu.au/amu/about.htm