The jacket was given to Mr Frederick Budge of Farina, South Australia, by a Muslim (‘Afghan’) trader he knew who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, at some time in the 1890s. 

181 Sturt Street was the home of Mahomet Allum, an Afghani herbalist and healer. It was later the office for Romani International Australia and the Australian Romani School of Gypsy Culture and Language. 

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.

For over a century the Adelaide Mosque has provided a centre for prayer, community and celebration.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel

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.

Cawthorne was a dynamic music seller and concert manager, and is remembered as a genial raconteur.

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

Dunmoochin, built around 1858, was the home of Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their three children. It is an example of the many workers’ cottages built in the West End. 

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.

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

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

Adelaide’s longest running gay venue, located at 120 Gouger Street and known, until recently, as the Mars Bar, first opened in December 1976.

Mike Maka’s mural features a tired rhinocerous carrying the city of Adelaide on its back.

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. 

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

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

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

A collection of objects related to the Sym Choon family, reflecting their lives as first generation Australians with Chinese heritage.

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

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

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