Explore Adelaide

Adelaide Central Market, between Grote and Gouger Streets in the city centre, has traded since 1869 and is one of the oldest markets in Australia. More than 70 traders under one roof sell fruit and vegetables, meat, seafood, cheese, bread and other produce, alongside cafés and food stalls.

The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution on North Terrace, founded in 1856. Its galleries show an extensive collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material, a polar collection from early Antarctic expeditions, minerals, fossils and animal specimens, in a complex of 19th-century and modern buildings.

The Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace was founded in 1881 as the National Gallery of South Australia; its Classical Revival Elder Wing opened in 1900. The collection of almost 45,000 works is strongest in Australian art, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and also covers European, Asian and North American art.

The National Wine Centre of Australia opened in 2001 at the eastern end of North Terrace, beside the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Its timber-and-steel building by Cox Grieve Gillett recalls the curve of a wine barrel. Inside are an exhibition on Australian winemaking and a tasting area, and rows of grapevines of several varieties grow outside.

Adelaide Gaol, in the Park Lands west of the city centre, was the first permanent prison in South Australia and held inmates from 1841 until 1988. Its stone buildings are among the oldest standing in the state. The former gaol is now a museum, with self-guided and guided tours through the cell blocks, yards and towers of the complex.

Carrick Hill is a manor house in Springfield, in the foothills south-east of Adelaide's centre, built from 1937 to 1939 for Edward and Ursula Hayward with materials from the Beaudesert estate in England. Bequeathed to the state, it opened in 1985 and shows the couple's art collection and furnishings, set in formal gardens, woodland and bushland.