The classical building of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with its gracious colonnaded portico, is one of the cultural landmarks on North Terrace. 

Dame Roma Mitchell is depicted surrounded by her books looking relaxed and at home on North Terrace.

A trailblazing jurist, Dame Roma Mitchell pushed for numerous law reforms and became South Australia’s first female governor.

As premier, Dunstan’s agenda of social and political reform transformed South Australia.

Different, but a good likeness

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

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.

Within Catherine Truman’s work, Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway, the tentative nature of life is captured brilliantly from the depths of Truman’s imagination.

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

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

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

The shining steel and simple form of Knot typifies the work of sculptor Herbert (Bert) Flugelman.

A phenomenally successful athlete, Marjorie Jackson Nelson went on to become a governor of South Australia

‘My aim is to leave the world better for women’ – Mary Lee was an activist, suffragist and unionist

Opened in 1986 the Migration Museum in Adelaide was a world first.

Narisha Cash's mural acknowledges and celebrates the Kaurna people as the traditional owners and custodians of Adelaide and the Adelaide plains. 

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

Michelle Nikou's bronze sculpture stands in almost comic contrast with the plinths that populate North Terrace further west. 

'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

‘Construction’, ‘Thought’ and ‘Optimism’ make up the three elements of this bronze sculpture by Victor Meertens. 

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

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

The bust of Sir Lawrence Bragg commemorates a South Australian Nobel Laureate

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

This bust, sculpted in 2015 by South Australian artist Robert Hannaford, commemorates Professor William Bragg. 

At the time of its installation in 1995, Yerrakartarta was the largest public commission of Aboriginal artwork in Australia.