Adelaide House, Alice Springs: an outback house museum


Judith McKay

Australiana, Vol 45 no 1, February 2023

Curator Judith McKay focuses on a unique house museum in the Northern Territory, originally planned in 1920 by the Rev. John Flynn of Flying Doctor fame as a model outback hospital. Its most remarkable feature was a passive ventilation system designed to cool the building on the Coolgardie safe principle.

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