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Revisionism or self‐reflexivity at the south Australian museum: The museumising imagination in the postcolonial era

South Australian Museum's recent attempt to remedy Eurocentric curatorial practices in the presentation of Indigenous material in the museum's Aboriginal Cultures and Pacific Cultures Galleries is examined. Both the displays are criticized as it is concluded that both the nineteenth-century practice of salvaging and displaying the material culture of a dying race and the current practice of aestheticising Aboriginal material with a contemporary ethnographic approach tend to promote and sustain views of Aboriginal cultures as primitive, while avoiding scrutiny of the upheavals wrought by colonialism on Aboriginal lives.