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City Guide > Australia and South Pacific > South Australia > Adelaide | |
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Key Attractions Art Gallery 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 South Australian 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 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 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 |