Explosive donation to museum brings bomb squad to Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
Explosive donation to museum brings bomb squad to Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
By Tom Mann and Isabella Kelly
Posted Fri 31 Jul 2026 at 9:01amFri 31 Jul 2026 at 9:01am
Fri 31 Jul 2026 at 9:01am
Historian Samuel Doering made an explosive discovery when sorting through donations at the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery. (Supplied: Samuel Doering)
In short:
Historian Samuel Doering was going through the backlog of donations to the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery when he found a highly explosive acid.
Bomb technicians attended the gallery to dispose of the acid, which had been driven from Victoria to regional South Australia some months previously.
Historically used for a range of medicinal purposes, picric acid is classed in the top division of Class One Explosives in Australia, ruled a "mass explosion hazard".