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 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 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

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.

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

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

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

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Originally painted by Carol Ruff and Barbary O'Brien in 1984 and modified by Driller Jet Armstrong in 1998.

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

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

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

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