The University of South Australia's Architecture Museum is a dynamic hub of research into South Australia’s architectural and built environment history utilising its research collection of architects’ and allied professionals’ records.
The Architecture Museum is a nationally unique entity with an established academic, professional and community profile.
The Architecture Museum generates new knowledge through staff and undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, publications and exhibitions. It produces an award-winning monograph series and the scholarly online biographical database called ‘Architects of South Australia’. The Architecture Museum aims to publish research findings of Museum-based scholars who work in the areas of architectural and built environment history and pertaining particularly to South Australia, these include academic and professional journal articles, books and exhibitions. Past projects range from a multi-authored book on the 1887 Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition Building to research into the South Australian Home Builders Club 1945-65.
Over the past two decades the Architecture Museum has held an important role in South Australia's cultural landscape as a resource for research, teaching and learning, raising awareness of the history and culture not only of South Australian built heritage but also of architecture more broadly. It began in the 1970s, when, in the absence of a repository in South Australia for retired private architectural practitioners to deposit their records, architectural historian Donald Leslie Johnson began collecting their archives. In 1990 he donated the collection to the School of the Built Environment at the University of South Australia. This collection of architectural drawings, ephemera and books began to be made publicly accessible in the late 1990s and was renamed the Architecture Museum in 2005 when it opened its doors in the Kaurna Building at the City West campus of the University of South Australia.
Telephone: 08 8302 9235
Email: architecturemuseum@unisa.edu.au
Opening hours:
Monday to Wednesday
10.00 am-4.00 pm
(by appointment only)
Building K - Level 2
Adelaide University
Adelaide City (West) Campus
2 Fenn Place
Adelaide
South Australia 5000
