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<p>This is the East wing of the South Australian Museum, which opened in 1915. 
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The South Australian Museum began in the Institute building on North Terrace, Adelaide. In 1859 Frederick Waterhouse offered to be the first curator of the Institute's museum and began to build a collection in an honorary capacity. He was appointed as the first curator when the Institute Building was completed in 1861. The initial focus of Waterhouse's early collecting was birds and mammals and some of these early specimens are still preserved in the collection.</div>
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South Australian government photographer</div>
1 January 1920<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1920-01-01T00:00:00Z/11</div>
The History Trust of South Australian,  South Australian Government - Glass negatives uploaded at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://data.history.sa.gov.au/gallery.php?collection=sagpc">[1]</a>