The Adelaide City Council has a history spanning over 170 years of service to its citizens.

Who, or what, is following Alice in Rymill Park?

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

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

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

The League of Women Voters (so named from 1939), earlier entitled the Women’s Non-Party Political Association, was established in South Australia in 1909 by Lucy Morice. Its main object was the removal of legal, economic and civil inequalities between men and women.

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

'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

The Presbyterian Church has a long history in South Australia, owing much to the early Scotish community.

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 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 Three Rivers fountain in Victoria Square commemorates the Royal Visit in 1963

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and by the 1870s there were thousands of union members in the colony.

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

Remembering the role of horses in war.

The Women's Work Depot sprang out of a First World War business, theTrench Comforts Shop, reforming in 1920 to sell goods made by women.