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Antarctic Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
| Website: | www.tmag.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=89 |
| Address: | 40 Macquarie Street Hobart TAS 7000 Australia |
| Telephone: | (03) 6211 4177 |
Australian National Maritime Museum
| Website: | www.anmm.gov.au |
| Address: | GPO Box 5131, Sydney, New South Wales 2001 |
| Telephone: | +61-2-552-7777 |
| Year of foundation: | 1985, opened 1991 |
| Collections: | Tilbrook whaling collection. |
Marine Studies Centre
| Website: | www.sea.uct.ac.za |
| Address: | Antarctic Environment Learning Unit, Woodbridge, Tasmania |
| Year of foundation: | 1994 |
| Collections: | Visitor centre providing interactive laboratory in which visitors can model Antarctic fisheries. Run by the Tasmanian Department of Education and the Arts. |
Mawson Museum
| Website: | www.samuseum.sa.gov.au |
| Address: | University of Adelaide, Urrbrae House, Waite Historic Precinct, Waite Campus, University of Adelaide |
| Collections: | Work in progress to display artefacts and papers from the collection bequeathed by Sir Douglas Mawson to the University of Adelaide |
| Publications: | <em>Antarctic artefacts: a selective description and annotated catalogue of artefacts in the Mawson Collection at the University of Adelaide</em> (Ferguson, 1995) |
Museum of Victoria
| Website: | www.museum.vic.gov.au |
| Address: | PO Box 666E, 222 Exhibition St., Melbourne 3000 |
| Telephone: | +61-3-669-9997 |
| Fax: | +61-3-639-1090 |
| Collections: | Together with Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery developed the exhibition <em>Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World</em>. Contact: Curator of Antarctic Studies. |
National Museum of Australia
| Website: | www.nma.gov.au |
| Address: | PO Box 1901, Canberra, ACT 2601 |
| Telephone: | +61-6-256-1111 |
| Fax: | +61-6-256-1233 |
| Year of foundation: | 1980 |
| Collections: | Possesses one of Mawson's sledges, Hurley's diaries, and other artifacts with Antarctic and Southern Ocean associations. |
South Australian Museum
| Website: | www.samuseum.sa.gov.au |
| Address: | North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000 |
| Telephone: | +61-8-2077500 |
| Fax: | +61-8-2077444 |
| Year of foundation: | 1856 |
| Collections: | Holds artefacts and natural history specimens relating to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) and BANZARE (1929-31). Current proposal to mount exhibition displaying the polar and other scientific, academic and political achievements of Sir Douglas Mawson |
| Publications: | <em>Records</em> (1918-, 2pa) |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
| Address: | 40 Macquarie St., Hobart, Tasmania 7001 |
| Year of foundation: | 1829 |
| Collections: | Antarctic exhibits. Together with Museum of Victoria developed the exhibition <em>Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World</em> opened 1994. This focuses on geophysics and on Antarctica's role as the 'climate engine of the world'. |