Monday, October 17, 2011

Day 15 Adelaide

Adelaide is about the size of Salt Lake. Instead of trying to see and do a lot, we set our eyes on one venue, the South Australia Museum. This museum is about 150 years old; and unlike most modern museums, the exhibits in this museum are full and complex. It reminded me most of Carnegie Museum as a child before they modernized it (though it is quite a bit smaller).

The most intriguing exhibit halls are the two floors of aboriginal life, the large hall of Polynesian Culture (the largest collection of Pacific Island artifacts in the world), a respectable geology collection ,  the opening of Antarctica (It’s geology is closely related to that of Australia) , a small but decent Egypt room and the National Opal Fossil Collection.  We’ll let the pictures do the talking.











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