Adelaide

Botanical Garden

Adelaide Botanic Garden

Opened in 1857, Adelaide Botanic Garden stretches across 51 hectares near the city centre with a great Victorian Palm House, the Bicentennial Conservatory, and a living collection of over 5,000 plant species.

Museum

Army Museum of South Australia

Army Museum of South Australia is a museum in Adelaide, SA. The museum explores themes of military, social history, architecture. Core activities include exhibition, education. The venue is housed in a historic building. Visitors can enjoy guided tours, cafe. Nearby towns include Keswick, Adelaide CBD, South Adelaide.

Gallery

Art Gallery of South Australia

Forty-seven thousand works and a collection policy still running. The North Terrace institution opens daily from 10am — and on the first Friday of each month until 9pm — with the 2026 Adelaide Biennial, *Yield Strength*, running February through June alongside a touring Monet-to-Matisse show. The permanent collection search is free and genuinely useful.

Heritage Site

Ayers House Museum

North Terrace's grandest bluestone pile was home to Henry Ayers — seven-time Premier, telegraph champion, colonial dealmaker — for four decades from the 1870s. Architect Kingston, who also laid out Adelaide's street grid for Colonel Light, gave it the ballroom and verandahs still standing today. The National Trust now holds the keys; the rooms remain furnished as Ayers left them.

Heritage Site

Beaumont House

Beaumont House is a heritage-listed heritage site in Adelaide, SA. The heritage site explores themes of architecture, social history, decorative arts. Core activities include exhibition, conservation. The venue is housed in a historic building. Visitors can enjoy guided tours. Notable for being state significant. Nearby towns include Beaumont, Eastwood, St Peters.

Heritage Site

Carrick Hill

Carrick Hill is a beautifully preserved 1939 Arts and Crafts house and garden in Springfield, designed by Herbert Jory for William and Ursula Goodman. It remains one of the finest examples of the period in South Australia and sits within a splendid heritage garden.

Museum

Carrick Hill House Museum & Garden

A period mansion set within a 100-acre estate in the Adelaide foothills, featuring  art collections, impressive interiors, and extensive heritage gardens with  ocean views.

Museum

History Trust of South Australia — Migration Museum

Australia's first migration museum, housed in a former Destitute Asylum, tells the story of the people who came to South Australia from every corner of the world — exploring themes of identity, belonging and the courage required to start again in a new country.

Cultural Centre

Jam Factory

Since 1973, JamFactory has trained Australian makers in ceramics, glass, furniture, and jewellery and metal — a two-year associate program that doubles as the institution's spine. The Adelaide West End building holds working studios alongside retail and gallery spaces; purchases fund the training directly. The shop fit-out, by South Australian designer Khai Liew, dates from 2010 and remains worth the visit on its own terms.

Gallery

JamFactory

Fifty years on from its origins in a St Peters jam factory, this not-for-profit remains the most rigorous proving ground for Australian craft. Associates spend two years working across ceramics, glass, furniture, or jewellery and metal studios; the shop sells the results. Designer Khai Liew refitted the flagship retail space in 2010. Everything purchased funds the training program directly.

Gallery

JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design

JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design in Adelaide, SA. has collection and exhibitions that explore decorative arts, contemporary art, textiles fashion. Core activities include exhibition, education, community, performance. The venue serves as a community hub and provides immersive experiences. Visitors can enjoy shop, cafe, guided tours, workshops, events. Notable for being long established. Nearby towns include Adelaide CBD, Rundle Mall, North Terrace.

Cultural Centre

Living Kaurna Cultural Centre

Living Kaurna Cultural Centre is a cultural centre in Adelaide, SA. The cultural centre explores themes of indigenous, social history, multicultural. Core activities include education, exhibition, community, conservation. The venue serves as a community hub and provides immersive experiences. Visitors can enjoy guided tours, workshops, accessible, free entry. Nearby towns include Adelaide CBD, Flagstaff Hill, Reynella. Admission is free.

Museum

Migration Museum

Free entry gets you into a former Destitute Asylum (1878) on Kintore Avenue, where the stories of migration to South Australia fill rooms that once held the colony's most vulnerable. Exhibitions, talks and community events run year-round. The weight of the building does half the work.

Heritage Site

National Trust SA — Carrick Hill

Carrick Hill is an outstanding Arts and Crafts house of 1939 in the Adelaide Hills, designed by Herbert Jory for prominent Adelaide citizens William and Ursula Goodman. The house and its beautiful garden of native and exotic plantings represent the finest Arts and Crafts design in South Australia.

Museum

Royal Society of Arts South Australia

Australia's oldest art society, established in 1856, housed in a historic gallery within the Institute Building on North Terrace. The heritage venue showcases approximately a dozen exhibitions annually featuring diverse artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and digital media from members and national and international artists.

Gallery

Samstag Museum of Art

The Samstag Museum presents a dynamic program of contemporary art at the University of South Australia, with a distinctive focus on works by recipients of the prestigious Samstag Scholarship.

Museum

SASA Gallery - Adelaide University

A student-focused experimental gallery space at Adelaide University dedicated to showcasing emerging artistic talent. SASA Gallery exhibits graduate works, contemporary art installations, and hosts academic engagement programs across diverse disciplines from ceramics to moving image.

Museum

South Australian Museum

On North Terrace, this 150-year-old institution holds its weight in specifics: meteorites, opals, Pacific cultures, Aboriginal heritage, and a biological sciences collection that runs from parasites to whales. Fewer than 90 staff run the place, supported by 200-odd volunteers. The research output on opal and copper alone has made it a reference point for mineralogists globally.

Archive

State Library of South Australia

Three buildings span the North Terrace corner at Kintore Avenue: the Institute Building, the Spence Wing, and the Mortlock Chamber. South Australia planned a public library before the colony was even settled, and the institution has been collecting that history ever since. Over 550,000 people come through annually — for genealogy, newspapers, photographs, and one of the great reading rooms in the country.

Cultural Centre

Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute

Founded in 1989 on Kaurna land — the Adelaide Plains people whose word *tandanya* means "place of the Red Kangaroo" — this First Nations-owned centre is Australia's oldest of its kind. Exhibitions, performances and community events sit alongside a stated commitment to intergenerational knowledge transmission, making it less a gallery than a working cultural institution with a clear sense of purpose.

Museum

Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum

A historic landmark centered around the Highercombe Hotel, a prominent building opened in 1854 that has served multiple community roles throughout its storied past. Now accredited as a museum, it showcases the heritage and history of the Tea Tree Gully township, operated by volunteers.