Unley Museum

About

The Unley Museum is a local history museum in Unley, South Australia located at 80 Edmund Avenue in the former Unley Fire Station building, built in 1898. It was founded as a museum in 1971, and operated by the City of Unley. The museum with five gallery spaces has more than 12,000 photographs and objects, and has grown from donations of Unley people.

The Unley Museum incorporates several display galleries, a research library, and conducts research into house histories and families of Unley. In 2012 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2012 (Level 2), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition" for "Gorgeous Gardens". The judges described the project: "An engaging project, innovatively presented, well researched and visually appealing, with strong connections to a diversity of community members through a subject to which all can relate positively." In 2016 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2016 (Level 1), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout" for the best permanent exhibition "200 Years of Change".

This permanent exhibition tells about two centuries of history from the Kaurna people to Unley today. The...