Small but mighty. I love a good natural history museum that isn't all screens. The SA Museum is a…read morewonderland of exhibits - geology, history, biology etc. So much taxidermy (love it!)! An absolutely amazing room of Pacific Island and Indigenous art/artifacts! Minerals! And - it's free! We spent a few hours here and it was well worth our time.

This is an excellent spot to take your kids for enjoyment, particularly during school holidays. Our…read morefavorite activity is the scavenger hunt, where children can check off items from a list as they find them, one at a time. I personally love the collection of crystals and rocks, along with the large metallic meteorite at the entrance. My kids are interested in the room filled with bugs and bees. There's also a T-Rex skull nearby. There is no admission fee, but be ready to pay for parking and take a short walk to get there. It's truly worth it. Overall, I rate it five stars.

Lovely! Stopped for an hour or two's lookabout. Many wonderful artworks, much of it indigenous. A…read morenice staff responded to questions with smiles. It is quite clean and well-kept. There is a cafe/eatery downstairs that was quite busy, speaking well for its fare. Room after room of many things to see. Certainly one of Adelaide's must-see spots!

I'm giving this gallery a 3.5/5. Huge bonus that it is free, even with the special exhibit from…read moreYayoi Kasuma with her famous polka dots and pumpkins, which was probably my favorite of all the works seen here. It is so unexpected and cheerful, you can't help but smile. As for the rest of the gallery, it was a bit jarring to see completely different styles and media next to each other. Maybe I just didn't appreciate the hidden themes or transitions. Not many plaques for explanations. All in all, not a bad stop for half an hour, but not a place I'd spend the whole day or even half a day in.

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder…read more This term is often used to express gratitude for what Gods creation has made. The Botanical Garden in Adelaide CBD (Common Business District) houses decades and centuries of trees from the beginning era of Australia or in fact the World as it stands. We ran into a tour guide that explained the existence for a majority of the trees here to have been here since the early 1800's and as such, the garden has protected and ensured the area is well taken cared of. What a wonderful place to be among feeling the energy of the earth surrounding this unique and quiet garden. Adjacent to so many other iconic establishments in Adelaide CBD, the Botanic Gardens has trails, a park itself for picnic (which we did), and plenty of green passage and shades to relax and bask in. One day of this place is never enough to experience the beauty of nature.

Beautiful early evening stroll in the gardens…read more After an afternoon at the adjacent Wine Museum, we decided to walk through the Botanical Gardens located in the north terrace. There are several entrances, one being right at the museum's patio. There are also several large posted maps to check out. Like the beautifully restored Palm House built in 1877, First Creek Wetland, the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion, the Santos Museum of Economic Botany and the Bicentennial Conservatory. At the Visitor Information Centre and Diggers Garden Shop, you can purchase a variety of seeds, gardening books and garden tools. If didn't eat at the Wine Museum, you can grab a bite at Simpson Kiosk or. Café Fibonacci. The Botanical Gardens Restaurant offers a fine dining experience. The Garden is open 365 days a year and entry is free. Free guided tours are provided by the Friends of the Botanic Gardens, departing from the Schomburgk Pavilion at 10.30am daily (except Christmas and Good Friday).

I was recently drawn to the Migration Museum just in time to attend the 25th Birthday celebrations…read more The Museum is FULL of information about Australia's history, from a purely Indigenous Australia right through to many cultures that make up Australia in the present day. One of the themes that reflected strongly was the sense of identity. What do Australian's associate with being Australian and how do we see ourselves in the bigger picture of Australia? I found the information within the Museum to be very respectful of the Indigenous Australian culture. The Museum sees many school groups through its doors which is fantastic. There are many interactive displays and is a great place to take children to learn about some of the wonderful cultures that now make up Australian society. This is a must see for anyone in Adelaide, whether they are permanent residents of not. Happy learning!

This museum is a must. It is a great look at migration into South Australia, and Australia as a…read morewhole, and it is very educational. There are three areas in this museum, well four if you include settlement square. When you come into the grounds of this museum, you are greeted by Settlement Square, this square is full of bricks with peoples names on them and where they emigrated from. They have been put their either by families who emigrated, or want a way to remember their families who emigrated. A few years ago, my Dad arranged to have a brick put into Settlement Square for his parents, and the family who emigrated from Sheffield. The interior of the museum is split into three areas, one of which pretty much stays the same all the time, it talks about Australia's migration history, from the first fleet through to our current (in my opinion, APPALLING) treatment of refugees. The other two areas of the museum are an ever changing array of exhibitions. This means that I quite often have a reason to visit the museum. On the weekend I went there with my Dad :) to visit the brick for his parents, but while we were there we had a look through the museum. The current exhibition in the front room was about the explorers, and therefore not really to my interest, so we decided to take a walk through the rest of the museum, which has not really changed that much. My Dad was on his mobility scooter, and at the end of the main exhibition there is a large step down into the courtyard, so we had to go back through the exhibition in order to get out. On the way back, we ran into a woman and her daughter who were in the area that talks about the White Australia Policy. This sparked up a conversation :) We got talking about all sorts of things. This is one of the reasons I love this museum, it is thought and conversation provoking. This museum is only the cost of a gold coin, and for that it is well worth the visit! If you are looking for something to do for an afternoon - I would suggest the Migration Museum :)

The Samstag is considered to be one of, if not the leading University Galleries in the country…read morebecause of the excellent facility and the amazing work it manages to find and exhibit. Through the year there are a range of exciting exhibitions that challenge just about all the notions of art you can imagine. This is the very purpose of contemporary work as well as pushing the boundaries of fine art and arts practise. The drive behind the gallery is so forceful it tends to gain a greater reputation each year and it is always worth visiting to see what extraordinary events are taking place. In recent times the works exhibited have included photographs by Bill Henson, and artist and photographer who has created a whole new controversy with his photographs of children, begging the question where is the line between pornography and art drawn in today's world? Giant chess boards with fantasy chess pieces feature in the photographs I've taken to go with my review, and other amazing work I've seen in the gallery has included incredible new Chinese art that looks like a giant has dropped her knickers and is shamelessly walking the streets somewhere bare arsed for all to see; so there is a healthy sense of humour in the work that has been brought in here. Adelaide is remarkably lucky to have such a dynamic space dedicated to contemporary art in exhibit.

A friend of mine is an art and graphic design student. He studies at Uni SA and has had to visit…read morethis place a few times. I was wandering aimlessly around the city, a meanderthal, when I ran into him on his way there. I've never quite gotten the hang of visual art appreciation. I know the concept of learning how appreciate art is a silly one, but to me (and to the postmodernist, I guess), there's no different of worth between a Monet and a city-street cartoonist. My friend too me around the rooms and levels and told me what he thought about the visual art present. It really helped me to enjoy and admire everything. I particularly like this one dark room displaying what appeared to be a still image, but what revealed itself to be a film if you watched it for a long enough duration. It depicted deserted city streets, which my friend and I ended up identifying as Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Now I return to the Samstag every few months to see what's new. It's a great place. Hell, if you want a place to take a date, take him/her here. It'll make you look cultured and sophisticated.

If you enjoy the way buildings look and you like to see blueprints, if you are fascinated with the…read moreephemera surrounding the interior design world or the area of architecture; maybe you want to do some research into who lived in what building in historic Adelaide? Possibly you are interested in engravings, photographs, diaries and notebooks all concerning architecture. If you are that way inclined then call the Collections manager Dr Julie Collins and make a date to visit this most delightful museum. If you have time on your hands and are looking for something to do that is truly fascinating this is a very interesting way to spend some time. I become quite enthralled with the drawings and pictures and I'm not an architect nor have I ever had any ambition to become one, but I do like looking at interesting things. Take yourself for a day out and I suspect you will want to make a return visit just to continue looking at the greater part of the iceberg you will have observed the tip of. It is a free service based in the school of design and architecture as part of the University of South Australia, but it is also a public museum and a total treat for anyone with interests in history, research and obviously buildings; town planning and social development students even set design students will also find this really interesting and if you are one of the rare breed who want to etch, mark metal as an artistic pursuit and print etchings that you can ask people to come up and see... as in "come up and see my etchings..." this is an unmissable cache of treasures you will take great delight in. Costs nothing but the phone call to warn Dr Julie you are on your way; and she will be pleased as a punch drunk bricklayer believe me. Oh and don't worry, Dr Julie will not hang over you as if you shouldn't be there - she loves visitors to her pride and joy. Best collection of materials on architecture you could hope for in the state.

I only vaguely remember when this place was operation because I was only a kid, or rather a…read moreteenager, when this gaol was closed and turned into a museum. Actually, it's pretty cool, and not too pricey to go for a wander through as well. There is lots of information regarding the various walls, as well as grafitti that has been left over (if that happens to be prisoner grafitti). The thing I found most interesting, even though it was mentioned nowhere, is how the gaol was built as a panoptacon, that is with the guards in a central watchhouse where they can pretty much see all over the prison. It's quite interesting, especially seeing how gaols like this actually operated.

The Adelaide Gaol is a very eerie place, but don't worry it's pretty interesting! While I was…read morelooking into all the cells I got this feeling that I was being watched... but I didn't worry about it! You could go in the small library they had. You could go in the solitary confinement cells. Around the place was these plaques and you could read the stories of what happened. Wondering through the courtyards was cool and peeping through the cell bars was also cool. It's a massive place with a lot to offer. There's even ghost tours! Overall I would solidly recommend anyone to go there!