The South Australian Museum is defined by the massive, skeletal remains of a sperm whale suspended in the airy, three-story atrium. This building began in eighteen fifty-six as a collection of curiosities housed in the Institute Building nearby. It moved here to North Terrace in eighteen ninety-five to house an expanding hoard of natural history specimens. Sir Edward Stirling, a curator with a passion for biology, filled these halls with biological wonders, including the whale skeleton that still dominates the central space today.
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