The striking facade from Adelaide’s private produce market in the north east corner of the city remains a city landmark, though the market itself no longer operates.

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office was constructed in the late nineteenth century and housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected Australia with the world

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

Though dogged by scandal, Charles Kingston was a lawyer, parliamentarian and Federalist who steered many reforms through the South Australian Parliament and helped draft Australia’s Constitution.

Cawthorne was a dynamic music seller and concert manager, and is remembered as a genial raconteur.

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

Daniel Moriarty has been acclaimed as the greatest footballer between the two World Wars.

The East End Market was Adelaide’s first formal fruit and vegetable market. 

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation in the city. 

A street in an area of contrasts - the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are associated with East Terrace

Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

Faulding was a manufacturing chemist, prominent businessman, city councillor and church benefactor.

Now home to Tandanya, this building opened in 1901 as the Grenfell Street Power Station Building.

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

Joachim Wendt was a Danish-born silversmith whose work included extravagant naturalism, Edwardian style, and restrained Regency taste.

Mike Maka’s mural features a tired rhinocerous carrying the city of Adelaide on its back.

'Popeye the Sailor' was a popular cartoon at the cinema in the 1930s when Gordon Watts introduced a tourist pleasure craft on the River Torrens

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

A collection of objects related to the Sym Choon family, reflecting their lives as first generation Australians with Chinese heritage.

In 1925/26 Thomas Sym Choon bought his four children a shop each.

Originally built in 1921 as a power station and office for the Adelaide Electric Supply Company, today this beautiful building houses Tandanya, Adelaide’s Aboriginal Cultural Institution 

Word artist Richard Tipping prompts us to consider big ideas in his sculpture ‘The Eternal Question’

An outstanding all-round sportsman was provided with the rare honour of being memorialised during his lifetime

A temporary camping ground for the early European settlers, the West Parklands developed to host most notably a cemetery and a school.