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Sightseeing Overview
Adelaide is an easy city to walk around, so the only time you’ll really need to take public transport is if you want to visit Port Adelaide, North Adelaide, or take the tram to the beachside suburb of Glenelg.

If you fancy a stroll away from the city center, then head into one of Adelaide’s many parks, the Botanic Gardens, or the track besides the River Torrens. Some of Adelaide’s museums are among the best in the country, and it’s definitely worth spending a few hours in at least one of them. If pressed for time, don’t miss the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum - it offers fascinating insights into the culture of the indigenous population.

Tourist Information
TheSouth Australian Visitor & Travel Center
18 King William Street
Tel: (08) 8303 2220 or 1 800 655 276.
Website: www.adelaide.southaustralia.com or www.southaustralia.com

This is the main tourist information center in Adelaide: it has plenty of maps, offers travel advice, and can make bookings. There’s also an information booth on the corner of Rundle Mall & King William Street.

The Port Adelaide Visitor Information Center is at 66 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide (tel: (08) 8405 6560) and the Glenelg Visitor Information Center is on the foreshore (tel: (08) 8294 5833).

Adelaide City Guides, dressed in green, rove the city center around Rundle Mall, and will happily offer advice or assistance to visitors to the city. 

Passes
The Discover Adelaide Card (tel: 131 246; website: www.adelaidecard.com.au) offers up to 50% off the price of admission, as well as some offers at selected attractions.

Key Attractions:

ArtGallery of South Australia
Adelaide’s most important art gallery features some major Australian paintings, including contemporary art, as well as tapestry, ceramics, and touring exhibitions.

North Terrace
Tel: (08) 8207 7000.
Website: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au

The Migration Museum
An intimate museum that tells the tale of early Australia, including South Australia’s convict history, as well as subsequent waves of immigration.

82 Kintore Avenue
Tel: (08) 8207 7580.
Website: www.history.sa.gov.au/migration/about.htm

Adelaide Zoo
The zoo features lots of Australian favorites as well as exotics from overseas. It is home to over 3,400 animals and almost 300 species, many of them endangered ones.
Frome Road
Tel: (08) 8267 3255.
Website: www.adelaidezoo.com.au

SouthAustralian Maritime Museum
This fascinating museum celebrates South Australia’s maritime history with permanent displays of figureheads, model ships, nautical instruments, artworks, a lighthouse, and two ships you can clamber over.

126 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide
Tel: (08) 8207 6255.
Website: www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/about_samm.htm

National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya
There are plenty of Aboriginal works of art on display here, some from very remote communities. Other exhibits, and tours, give an insight into Aboriginal culture, while a shop gives you the chance to take some art back home.

253 Grenfell Street
Tel: (08) 8244 3200.
Website: www.tandanya.com.au

National Wine Center of Australia
Directly opposite the Botanical Gardens, the National Wine Center of Australia is worth checking out for the architecture alone. The modern building is home to an award-winning interactive exhibition, Wine Discovery Journey, a state-of-the-art Australian wine industry showcase which examines everything from winemaking to the role of wine in history, and even matching food and wine. The center is also home to National Wine Education and Training Center, which runs various wine appreciation courses, and there is a café on site offering fine Australian wines to taste and/or purchase.

Corner of Botanic and Hackney Roads
Tel: (08) 8303 3355.
Website: www.wineaustralia.com.au

Further Distractions:

AdelaideBotanic Garden
Nice avenues of trees, duck ponds, a rose garden, palm house and a dome full of rainforest trees makes this refreshing garden good for a stroll.

North Terrace
Tel: (08) 8222 9311.
Website: www.environment.sa.gov.au/botanicgardens/adelaide.html

South Australian Museum
Come here for good butterfly and mineral displays as well as a fabulous collection of Aboriginal utensils, spears, tools, bush medicines and foods, and old photographs.

North Terrace
Tel: (08) 8207 7500.
Website: www.samuseum.sa.gov.au

NationalRailway Museum
The historic Goods Shed Platform located on the site of the old Port Adelaide Railway Station houses one of the best undercover collections of rolling stock and railway memorabilia in Australia, including some 20 engines. Entrance includes a train ride.

Lipton Street, North Adelaide
Tel: (08) 8341 1690.
Website: www.natrailmuseum.org.au

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