Adelaide - North Terrace

The South Australian Museum occupies a building with a French-style mansard roof and a tower (1914). It contains a large collection of Aboriginal and Melanesian art and Egyptian antiquities. Of particular interest are the prehistoric and natural history collections.

The Art Gallery of South Australia, built in 1889, with a colonnade added in 1936 previously served a variety of purposes (as a church, a police barracks, the state record office). It has a fine collection of pictures, drawings and prints, both from Australia and elsewhere (Europe and Asia).

The new Parliament House is the most imposing public building in Adelaide and has a monumental colonnade. It was opened in 1939 after five-years' building.

Adjoining Government House is the select Adelaide Club.

To the north of the Festival Centre, extending to the Torrens River, is Elder Park, with an attractive rotunda which is a popular meeting point. From the Popeye landing stage there are boat trips on the river.

The neoclassical Government House (begun 1836) is set in spacious gardens. It is the official residence of the governor of South Australia and is not open to the public.

Near the west end of North Terrace is Holy Trinity Church, the oldest Anglican church in South Australia, the foundation stone of which was laid by Governor Hindmarsh in 1838; the church was enlarged in 1845 and again in 1888. Compared with the imposing Victoria Bridge which spans Torrens Lake a little to the north, it looks like a village church. Nearby is a monument marking the site of the first school in the colony, opened in 1838.

The Migration Museum is housed in a well restored former poorhouse, it traces the history of immigration to South Australia.

The Old Parliament House Museum documents the political history of South Australia.

Rymill Park is beautifully laid out with rose gardens, a lake and children's play areas. In this park and Victoria Park (with racecourse), immediately south, is the Grand Prix circuit on which the annual Formula 1 race is run.

The State Library (1884), which forms an architectural unity with the adjoining South Australian Museum. It is the largest public library in South Australia, with a special collection of works on the history of the state.

At the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute (Grenfell Street) visitors can see something of contemporary Aboriginal culture (theater, dances, arts and crafts).

The campus of the University of Adelaide is spacious. The most notable buildings are the Mitchell Building (1881), Elder Hall and the church-like Bonython Hall.

The War Memorial commemorates the Australian dead of the two world wars and later wars.