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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2023-12-07 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007324b.htm corporateBody Kyancutta Museum AACR2 1929 1971 Start Place Kyancutta, South Australia, Australia Museum The Kyancutta Museum was opened in 1929 by Robert Bedford, resident of Kyancutta on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Freely open to the public, the Museum's objectives were broadly to promote research particularly in relation to the Peninsula and the north western parts of South Australia, and to support museum, library and educational activities in country districts. The Museum was built to house Bedford's personal collections, which included South Australian palaeontological specimens, meteorites from Henbury in Central Australia, and Bedford's personal museum, left in the United Kingdom when he came to Australia and sent by his sister in 1923. Much of Bedford's well-regarded palaeontological research was published in the Memoirs of the Kyancutta Museum between 1934 and 1939. Many of the Museum's meteorites were sold to the Australian National University 1961-2 and are housed in the Research School of Earth Sciences as the Bedford Meteorite Collection. In 1971 it was decided to close the Museum and sell the collections. The National Museum of Victoria bought almost all the remaining meteorites, minerals and fossils. Bedford, Robert (1874 - 1951)

Founded the Museum 1929

 Australian National University (1946 - )

The Research School of Earth Sciences purchased most of the Museum's meteorite collections 1961-2

 National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

The Museum's meteorite, mineral and fossil specimens were purchased by the National Museum of Victoria 1972

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