One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

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

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

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

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon's Union Street shop. 

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

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

The J Reedman Memorial Drinking Fountain was erected in Creswell Gardens on 7 September 1929. It is made of Angaston marble and signifies the achievements of John Cole Reedman, an Australian sports legend.

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.

Montefiore Hill, overlooking the city planned by Colonel William Light, was named after South Australian Colonization Commissioner Jacob Montefiore

'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

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973. 

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

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

The Sir Ross Smith Memorial commemorates the achievements of aviator Sir Ross Smith and the first flight from England to Australia. 

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.

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

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

Remembering the role of horses in war.