The Adelaide City Council has a history spanning over 170 years of service to its citizens.

Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the land he explored

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

Colonel William Light’s statue on Montefiore Hill pointing towards the centre of Adelaide has come to symbolise the city that Light laid out.

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

The John Jefferson Bray Memorial Fountain commemorates the life of a senior judge, scholar and poet

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

The League of Loyal Women was formed in South Australia on the 20 July 1915 and was primarily designed to utilise the domestic skills of women to provide men fighting overseas with homely comforts.

The League of Women Voters (so named from 1939), earlier entitled the Women’s Non-Party Political Association, was established in South Australia in 1909 by Lucy Morice. Its main object was the removal of legal, economic and civil inequalities between men and women.

Remembering South Australian Light Horsemen who served in Egypt and Palestine and at Gallipoli

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

'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 Presbyterian Church has a long history in South Australia, owing much to the early Scotish community.

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

The Children's Patriotic Fund and Schools' Patriotic Fund were repsonsible for aiding the war effort on the homefront during the First and Second World War, respectively. They achieved this by mobilising school children across South Australia to contribute in any way they could towards the war effort. 

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 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 mounted trooper reining in his horse commemorates South Australians who served in the South African War (1899-1902).

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and by the 1870s there were thousands of union members in the colony.

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

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

Remembering the role of horses in war.

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

South Australia became the first state in Australia to build a memorial for the First World War.

The Wattle Day League was responsible for campaigning to establish 'Wattle Day', a national day of celebration, within Australia and helped raise funds on the home front to help support Australian soldiers fighting in the First World War.

The Women's Work Depot sprang out of a First World War business, theTrench Comforts Shop, reforming in 1920 to sell goods made by women.