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

Who, or what, is following Alice in Rymill Park?

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.

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

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

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

Right in the centre of the city, Elder Park was a first stopping point for many new migrants arriving in South Australia.

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

Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.

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

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

Several of the brands of Methodism introduced to colonial South Australia merged in 1977 to become the Uniting Church.

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

The Museum of Economic Botany features exhibits outlining the practical and economic use of plant materials. 

Pirltawardli, (possum home) is the site of the first Christian mission to Aboriginal people in South Australia.

A botanist, horticulturist and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk was honoured locally as 'the people’s pet'. 

Artist Samuel Thomas Gill produced a lively visual record of early South Australia.

A pastoralist, philanthropist and businessman, Elder supported numerous outback expeditions and Adelaide institutions.

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

The Torrens Lake Fountain commemorates the first time South Australia was visited by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. 

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

Remembering the role of horses in war.

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