[2] The collection was established in 1997 in Grote Street in Adelaide city centre.

It relocated to the State Library of South Australia on North Terrace in 2003 until its closure in June 2018.

[2] From 2019 a dedicated gallery, co-located with the Art Museum at the university's Bedford Park campus, "presents diverse and inclusive curatorial projects that provoke enquiry and support innovative collaborations between regional and global partners".

[2] The Post-object and Documentation collection, "one of the most comprehensive national collections that documents conceptual art making in the 1960s and 1970s", was initiated by Donald Brook, Chair of Visual Arts at Flinders from 1974.

[3] The Flinders University Museum of Art collection has grown to more than 8,000 works,[when?]