Folk Museums, Thematic Museums and Local History Centres

If your family lived in the area, a local folk museum might just hold some material about them! At the very least you would gain an understanding of their environment enabling you to turn your genealogy into family history. A thematic museum will certainly assist your understanding of daily life in the past. Likewise if you seek information about a vocation you may find a facility that specialises in this aspect of history.

Adelaide and suburbs
Adelaide Gaol Adelaide Masonic Centre Museum Adelaide Oval Museum Art Gallery of South Australia Australian Electric Transport Museum Australian Museum of Childhood Ayers House Museum BankSA Museum Belair Railway Station Signalbox Charles Sturt Memorial Museum City of Unley Museum Classic Jets Fighter Museum Defence Services Museum Flinders University Heap Mannum Collection Fort Glanville HMS Buffalo Kingston House Latvian Museum Lithuanian Museum and Archives Migration Museum National Military Vehicle Museum National Motor Museum	National Railway Museum Old Government House Old Highercombe Hotel Folk Museum Performing Arts Collection of SA Rodney Fox Shark Experience Museum SAGASCO Museum Salisbury Folk Museum Signal, Telegraph & Aviation Museum South Australian Aviation Museum South Australian Maritime Museum South Australian Military Vehicle Museum South Australian Museum South Australian Police Museum The Brocas Historical Museum Tramway Museum Uleybury School Museum Unley Museum Urrbrae House Waterwheel Museum West Terrace Cemetery Museum West Torrens Railway & Aviation Museum Winns Historic Bakehouse Museum
Country
Angaston Collingrove Homestead Ardrossan Historical Museum Auburn Police Station and Courthouse Beachport Old Wool & Grain Store Museum Berri Wilabalangaloo Booleroo Steam & Traction Preservation Society Burra Bon Accord Mine Complex Burra Mine Museum Burra Morphett's Engine House Museum Cape Jaffa Lighthouse Museum Ceduna Museum Clare Old Police Station Museum Cleve Old Council Chambers Museum Cobdogla Irrigation & Steam Museum Collingrove Homestead Coober Pedy Old Timers Mine & Museum Coober Pedy Umoona Opal Mine & Museum Crystal Brook Bakehouse Museum Edithburgh Museum Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Franklin Harbour History Museum Gawler Telegraph Station Glencoe Woolshed Goolwa National Trust Museum Goolwa Signal Point Hahndorf Academy Hawker Museum Homestead Park Pioneer Museum Jamestown Museum Kadina Banking & Currency Museum Kadina Heritage Museum Kadina National Dry Land Farming Centre Kapunda Museum & Bagot’s Fortune Keith National Trust Kimba & Gawler Ranges HS Museum Kingscote Hope Cottage Museum Kingston Pioneer Museum Koppio Smithy National Trust Museum Light Pass Luhr's Cottage Littlehampton Platform 1 Heritage Farm Railway Lobethal National Costume Museum Loxton Historical Village Lucindale Museum Maitland Museum Mannum Dock Museum & PS Marion Melrose Bluey Blundstone's Blacksmith Shop Melrose Courthouse Museum Millicent National Trust Museum Minlaton & District Museum Mintaro Martindale Hall Moonta Mines Museum Moonta Railway Station Mt Dutton Bay Woolshed Mount Gambier Old Courthouse Mount Laura Homestead Museum Mundulla Hotel	Murray Bridge Boat and Steam Works Murray Bridge Captain's Cottage Nor West Bend Museum Norton Summit Old Council Chambers Old Tailem Town Pioneer Village Oodnadatta Railway Museum Orroroo Yesteryear Costume Gallery Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum Penneshaw Maritime & Folk Museum Penola Mary MacKillop Centre Penola Yallum Park Peterborough Steamtown Railway Pinnaroo DA Wurfel Grain Collection Pinnaroo Farm Machinery Museum Pinnaroo Heritage Museum Pinnaroo Mallee Tourist & Heritage Centre Pinnaroo Printing Museum Port Augusta Homestead Park Museum Port Augusta Wadlata Outback Museum Port Broughton Heritage Centre Port Elliot Railway Station Port Lincoln Axel Stenross Museum Port Lincoln Mill Cottage Museum Port Lincoln Railway Museum Port Macdonnell Dingley Dell Port Macdonnell District Maritime Museum Port Milang Railway Museum Port of Morgan Historic Museum Port Pirie Carn Brae Port Pirie National Trust Museum Port Victoria Maritime Museum Prospect Hill Historical Museum Quorn Pichi Richi Railway Renmark Olivewood Riverton Scholz Park Museum Robe Custom House Nautical Museum Roseworthy Agricultural Museum St Kilda Tramway Museum Sandleton Settlement Sevenhill Polish Hill River Church Museum Signal Point River Murray Centre Spalding Geralka Rural Farm Stansbury Museum Strathalbyn National Trust Museum Streaky Bay Old School Museum Tod Reservoir Museum Tumby Bay CL Alexander Museum Tumby Bay Smith & Engineering Workshp Victor Harbor Old Customs House Wadlata Outback Centre Wallaroo Heritage & Nautical Museum Whyalla Maritime Museum Whyalla Mount Laura Homestead Whyte Yarcowie Farm Museum Willunga Courthouse Museum Woomera Heritage Centre Yankalilla District Historical Museum

For more details and addresses go to Australian Museums on Line and enter the museum name into the search field.