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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2024-07-18 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-10-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007434b.htm corporateBody Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide Botanic Gardens AACR2 Santos Museum of Economic Botany 2009 1881 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Museum Collection Management Economic botany The Museum of Economic Botany was founded in 1881 by Richard Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. He took as his model the museum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Adeliade Museum is housed in a heritage-listed building within the Gardens. It is the sole remaining such museum of its kind in Australia. The original intention was to display and encourage the study of plants of practical use to humankind. Plant materials on display included fibre plants, dyes, food and beverage plants, essential oils, gums and resins, timbers and tapa cloth. There were also papier mâche models of fruit and fungi, and aboriginal plant products. The Museum declined from the 1890s until revived in the 1970s under the directorship of Noel Lothian. It currently houses over 3,000 objects. The now-restored building regularly hosts exhibitions relating to the practical, medicinal and economic use of plant materials. In 2009 it was renamed the Santos Museum of Economic Botany. Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811 - 1891)

Founded the Museum 1881

 Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Colony and State of South Australia (1855 - ) 'Museum of Economic Botany', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Museum of Economic Botany Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Museum of Economic Botany Parsons, Alexander Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia 2017 Book: Imitation of life: a visual catalogue of the 19th century fruit models in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, a collection of papier maché models made by Heinrich Arnoldi & Co. Gotha Kanellos, Tony Imitation of life: a visual catalogue of the 19th century fruit models in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, a collection of papier maché models made by Heinrich Arnoldi & Co. Gotha Adelaide Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium 2013 Book: Seeds of Change: an Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden Aitken, Richard Seeds of Change: an Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden Richmond Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium/Bloomings Books 2006 Book: Santos MEB Museum of Economic Botany: the Museum of Economic Botany at the Adelaide Botanic Garden, a Souvenir Emmett, Peter and Kanellos, Tony, eds Santos MEB Museum of Economic Botany: the Museum of Economic Botany at the Adelaide Botanic Garden, a Souvenir Adelaide Botanic Gardens of Adelaide 2010 Book: Harvest: an exhibition about plants and place from South Australian collections, Santos Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Garden, 30 May - 23 August 2009 Emmett, Peter Harvest: an exhibition about plants and place from South Australian collections, Santos Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Garden, 30 May - 23 August 2009 Adelaide Botanic Garden of Adelaide 2009