Recalling the ancient Ichthyosaur, this sculpture invites interaction

Different, but a good likeness

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.

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

Affectionately known as the ‘Bonython bath’, this fountain stood outside the South Australian Museum from 1965 to 2005

Adelaide-born Lord Florey won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for his part in making the infection-fighting penicillin available

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

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

Since 1894 Queen Victoria has looked imperiously over the bustle of Victoria Square

This 1969 bronze sculpture is one of the few pieces by the renowned British artist to be found in Australia. 

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

The bust of Sir Mark Oliphant on North Terrace honours an eminent scientist and the state’s first South Australian-born governor.

The bronze bust of Sir Mellis Napier, sculpted by eminent South Australian artist John Dowie, commemorates his distinguished community service, including to the law and legal profession in South Australia

The Immigrants sculpture has been climbed on, sat on, stood next to and embraced by many people who have walked through the gates of the Migration Museum since 2006.

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

An outstanding all-round sportsman was provided with the rare honour of being memorialised during his lifetime

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