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

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South Australian.

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

Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business interests. Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885), the pioneer, arrived in 1839 and established a trading business. 

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public film screening in South Australia occurred at the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street

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

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place in Australian history

Labour settlements were created during the 1890s to trial collective ownership, new farming technology and the high unemployment created by the Depression.

The evolving profession in South Australia retained some centuries-old practices.

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

Radicalism has been inherent in South Australian history from its founding as a free settlement.  Based upon the English radical liberal thought of its founders, the State's reputation grew as a progressive colony and the first to entirely separate church from state.

South Australia gained a radical, and democratic, Constitution on 24 October 1856.

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

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.

The Torrens title system for land ownership was inaugurated in South Australia  has led the world in the computerisation of real property title information.

Adelaide tunnel tales are a perennial favourite in the popular press, and are cheerfully perpetuated by tour operators and publicans everywhere.

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

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