The classical building of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with its gracious colonnaded portico, is one of the cultural landmarks on North Terrace. 

Different, but a good likeness

The simple exterior of Elder Hall belies the richness of its interior and the resonance of its organ

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

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

One of Adelaide’s oldest buildings, Government House welcomes thousands of visitors each year

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

The shining steel and simple form of Knot typifies the work of sculptor Herbert (Bert) Flugelman.

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

Opened in 1986 the Migration Museum in Adelaide was a world first.

The 'University Building' has served many functions since it opened in 1882

Narisha Cash's mural acknowledges and celebrates the Kaurna people as the traditional owners and custodians of Adelaide and the Adelaide plains. 

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

Michelle Nikou's bronze sculpture stands in almost comic contrast with the plinths that populate North Terrace further west. 

'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

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

The spirit of Antarctic explorer and professor of geology, Sir Douglas Mawson, is captured in the bust by John Dowie

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

The bust of Sir Mark Oliphant on North Terrace honours an eminent scientist and the state’s first South Australian-born governor.

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

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.

Architect Louis Laybourne-Smith and sculptor George Rayner Hoff created a memorial that conveys the impact of the First World War

This bust, sculpted in 2015 by South Australian artist Robert Hannaford, commemorates Professor William Bragg.