The Adelaide City Council has a history spanning over 170 years of service to its citizens.

The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.

Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South Australian.

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

One of three statues given to Adelaide by WA Horn, Hercules was unveiled in October 1892 in Victoria Square. 

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place in Australian history

Creating and installing King Edward VII’s statute took eight months longer than the period of his reign

Affectionately known as the ‘Bonython bath’, this fountain stood outside the South Australian Museum from 1965 to 2005

Remembering South Australian Light Horsemen who served in Egypt and Palestine and at Gallipoli

Adelaide-born Lord Florey won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for his part in making the infection-fighting penicillin available

An award for the ‘fairest and most brilliant player’ in South Australia’s major Australian Rules football competition

‘My aim is to leave the world better for women’ – Mary Lee was an activist, suffragist and unionist

This scale model of the spiral staircase in the Newmarket Hotel is just 600 millimetres high, but represents months of careful craftwork. It was made by a young man named Walton Banks and exhibited at the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition in 1887.

The Presbyterian Church has a long history in South Australia, owing much to the early Scotish community.

Since 1894 Queen Victoria has looked imperiously over the bustle of Victoria Square

One of many around the world, this statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns was unveiled in 1894

The bust of Sir Lawrence Bragg commemorates a South Australian Nobel Laureate

The bronze bust of Sir Mellis Napier, sculpted by eminent South Australian artist John Dowie, commemorates his distinguished community service, including to the law and legal profession in South Australia

A statue of Sir Samuel Way reflects his towering presence in legal, political and cultural circles in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

The sculpture of Elder is at the University of Adelaide, a major beneficiary of his philanthropy

The bronze figure of Sir Walter Watson Hughes by Francis Williamson stands on a massive block of red granite.

The mounted trooper reining in his horse commemorates South Australians who served in the South African War (1899-1902).

Between 1880 and 1891 the hulk Fitzjames, colloquially known as ‘Hell afloat’, served as a Reformatory for over 100 boys aged from 8 to 16 years of age. 

Adelaide tunnel tales are a perennial favourite in the popular press, and are cheerfully perpetuated by tour operators and publicans everywhere.

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and by the 1870s there were thousands of union members in the colony.

A startled Venus caused consternation as Adelaide’s first public statue in 1892

Founded in 1888, the Women’s Suffrage League was an organisation dedicated to extending the political franchise to South Australian women, which was achieved in 1894.