Adelaide, South Australia — Where to Go
Adelaide Sightseeing Overview
Adelaide is an easy city to walk around. Take the time to admire the historical buildings: King William features the Town Hall and the General Post Office, and further along North Terrace you'll find Parliament House and the State Library.
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. Be tempted by the fresh produce available from the Adelaide Central Market. Adelaide has some marvelous museums, don't miss the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum - it offers fascinating insights into the culture of the indigenous population.
Adelaide Tourist Information
The South Australian Visitor & Travel Center
18 King William Street
Tel: 1 800 655 276.
Website: 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 and King William Street.
The Port Adelaide Visitor Information Center is at 66 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide (tel: 1 800 629 888) and the Glenelg Visitor Information Center is on the foreshore (tel: (08) 8294 5833).
Adelaide Sightseeing
The Adelaide Attractions Pass (tel: 1300 769 762; www.adelaidesightseeing.com.au) allows you to choose six attractions from 15 options and offers up to 40% off the admission price.
Adelaide Sightseeing
The Adelaide Attractions Pass (tel: 1300 769 762; www.adelaidesightseeing.com.au) allows you to choose six attractions from 15 options and offers up to 40% off the admission price.
Key Attractions in Adelaide, South Australia
Art GalleryofSouthAustralia
Adelaide's most important art gallery houses an extensive collection of Australian works with a particularly good selection of colonial paintings. There is also space dedicated to international pieces, contemporary art, tapestry, ceramics, and touring exhibitions.
North Terrace
Tel: (08) 8207 7000.
Website: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
TheMigrationMuseum
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 7570.
Website: www.history.sa.gov.au/migration/about.htm
Adelaide Zoo
Adelaide 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.zoossa.com.au/adelaide-zoo
NationalAboriginalCulturalInstitute - 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 Botanic Gardens (see Further Distractions), 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 the 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
BotanicGardens of Adelaide
Nice avenues of trees, duck ponds, a rose garden, palm house and a dome full of rainforest trees make these refreshing gardens good for a stroll. The bicentennial conservatory, affectionately known as ‘the pasty' by locals, houses a collection of rare and endangered tropical rainforest species.
North Terrace
Tel: (08) 8222 9311.
Website: www.environment.sa.gov.au/botanicgardens
National RailwayMuseum
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
