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

The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.

Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site

Relief for the poor, the pregnant and the unemployed was a theme from the colony’s commencement

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

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

An eclectic selection of significant contributors to South Australia to 1986

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

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

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

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. 

The scene of pomp and ceremony, debates and demonstrations

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

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

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

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

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