Adelaide : Visiting Museums

August 06, 2015

Adelaide : Visiting Museums

Whenever I visit a new place I always try to make it a point to visit at least one museum so I can have a fast track intro about the city or country I am in. I can really have my fill here with local history and arts as Adelaide is home to quite a few interesting museums and you can spend an entire day just browsing through.

I decided on going to at least the two popular ones --- The Art Gallery of South Australia and the The South Australian Museum.

Once you come out from Rundle Mall and walk towards North Terrace, you will pass by a few statues/sculptures either of famous people (one was of the Scottish poet Robert Burns) and some depicting memorable events for South Australians. I stopped and went to the War Memorial which was built in 1931 to commemorate Anzac Day.

For my first stop, it will be the South Australian Museum (just next to the State Library of SA) --- a natural history museum which features Aboriginal artefacts and has a huge section dedicated to it, also has a Pacific cultures gallery complete with masks and tribal head gears.

It is a tastefully designed museum with a fantastic lighting system that optimizes the artefacts on display, creates the perfect mood for every setting and evokes a more dramatic impact to all the visitors. Nowadays, with people becoming so visual having proper lighting creates a more lasting impact on the onlooker.

Just next door is the Art Gallery of South Australia which was completely obliterated by the huge tarp hanging on its entrance. I went past it initially....then backtracked (coz based on my Google Maps app, it should just be a few steps from the South Australian Museum!

From afar (esp if you cannot see 20/20 lol) can you still guess that it is the Art Galley Museum???

Inside the Gallery is a very formal, hushed interior with a very polished & shiny (amora bag-ong floor wax! hahaha) parquet flooring and a thoughtfully organized and well-displayed works of art (paintings, sculptures, etc) from known Australian painters and even some European artists.