🦕 South Australian Museum

Adelaide, South Australia

🕐 Open 10am to 5pm daily, from noon on Anzac Day. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday

💰 Free general entry, some exhibitions ticketed

📍 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

☕ Nearest coffee: State Library Cafe, 110m away

🚻 Nearest public toilet: 220m away

Free, indoors and full of the things small kids actually stop for: the whale skeletons, the Egyptian room and the opalised fossils. A genuinely good rainy day, and the Museum Cafe is open 10am to 4pm.

What's there

✓ Shade✓ Coffee nearby✓ Pram access

Open in the app Directions Book / official page

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