This festival is widely recognised as one of the great international arts festivals, while its accompanying Writers’ Week is the largest literary event of its kind.

This compass is believed to have been used by John William Billiatt on the successful 1861-1862 expedition with John McDouall Stuart across Australia, from Adelaide to Chambers Bay, east of the present site of Darwin.

This devotional card, written by Queen Adelaide in 1841, quotes Psalms 100:5

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.

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

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers on National Flower Day.

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

This sample of jerky came from the successful expedition made by John McDouall Stuart across Australia from south to north in 1861 - 1862. 

This paint box is believed to have belonged to soldier, public servant and explorer, Captain Charles Sturt.

Pannikin used by William Keckwick on expedition with John McDouall Stuart.

'A red letter day in the calendar of South Australia': welcoming home heroes

Urn made by Henry Tijou and carried in Queen Adelaide's funeral procession.