Australia’s first memorial to recognise the service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was unveiled in Adelaide on 10 November 2013.

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

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South Australian.

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

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

The Angas Memorial was completed in 1915 as a tribute to the memory of George Fife Angas and John Howard Angas, colonists who contributed to the foundation of South Australia.

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

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

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

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

The Naval Memorial is an anchor mounted on a granite slab in the Parklands adjacent to Sir Edwin Smith Avenue.

'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 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

A statue of Sir Samuel Way reflects his towering presence in legal, political and cultural circles in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

The bronze figure of Sir Walter Watson Hughes by Francis Williamson stands on a massive block of red granite.

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

Adelaide tunnel tales are a perennial favourite in the popular press, and are cheerfully perpetuated by tour operators and publicans everywhere.

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

The lives and cultures of ‘Afghan’ cameleers are recognised in Whitmore Square

Remembering the role of horses in war.