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Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Adelaide's city centre is completely surrounded by parkland including the beautiful Botanic Gardens at the north east of the city. The gardens make a great picnic spot and also feature a huge conservatory that recreates a tropical rainforest.

Botanic Road, Adelaide

Tel (08) 8222 9311

Website www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au

Admission free, conservatory $3.40

Open Mon-Fri 8am-dusk, Sat-Sun 9am-dusk; conservatory 10am-5pm daily

Adelaide Gaol

Every Australian City has a prison turned into a museum and Adelaide is no exception. The gaol was operated as a prision as recently as 1988 and was the scene of 49 hangings.

18 Gaol Road, Thebarton

Bus 111, 112, 113, 115, 118, 151, 152, 153, 155, 286, 187

Tel (08) 8231 4062

Website www.adelaidegaol.org.au

Admission $7.50

Open Mon-Fri 11am-3.30pm, Sun 11am-3.30pm

Adelaide Zoo

Adelaide's zoo is home to around 1500 animals including an excellent South-East Asian Rainforest exhibit.

Frome Road, Adelaide

Bus 272, 273

Tel (08) 8267 3255

Website www.adelaidezoo.com.au

Admission $15

Open 9.30am-5pm daily

Art Gallery of South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia has a good collection of Australian and European paintings, although it is not quite up there with the galleries in Canberra or Melbourne.

North Terrace, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 140-146, 173-179, 241-248, T240, 280-282, 291, 292, T500 Train Adelaide

Tel (08) 8207 7000

Website www.artgallery.sa.gov.au

Admission free, charge for special exhibitions

Open Mon 10am-5pm, Tue 11am-5pm, Wed-Sun 10am-5pm

The Bradman Collection

This exhibition features a collection of cricketing memorabilia dating from 1929 to 1977. Sir Donald Bradman donated most of the collection to the State Library.

State Library of South Australia, Corner Kintore Avenue & North Terrace, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 140-146, 173-179, 241-248, T240, 280-282, 291, 292, T500 Train Adelaide

Tel (08) 8207 7595 or 1800 182 013

Website www.bradman.sa.com.au

Admission free

Open Mon-Thu 9.30am-6pm, Fri 9.30am-10pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm

Festival Centre

Adelaide's answer to the Sydney Opera House is the Festival Centre, which is the city's major landmark and occupies a lovely riverside setting.

North Terrace, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 140-146, 173-179, 241-248, T240, 280-282, 291, 292, T500 Train Adelaide

Maritime Museum

Adelaide's Maritime Museum features several old ships and a lighthouse as well as the usual nautical exhibits.

126 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

Bus 151, 152, 153 Train Port Adelaide

Tel (08) 8207 6255

Admission $8.50

Open 10am-5pm daily

Migration Museum

This is a fascinating museum about people who have migrated and settled in South Australia.

82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 140-146, 173-179, 241-248, T240, 280-282, 291, 292, T500 Train Adelaide

Tel (08) 8207 7580

Website www.history.sa.gov.au/migration/migration.htm

Admission by donation

Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 1pm-5pm

South Australian Museum

Adelaide's big museum features all the usual exhibits – rocks, Aboriginal artefacts, an Egyptian mummy and a whale skeleton.

North Terrace, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 140-146, 173-179, 241-248, T240, 280-282, 291, 292, T500

Tel (08) 8207 7500

Website www.samuseum.sa.gov.au

Admission free

Open 10am-5pm daily

Tandanya-National Aboriginal Cultural Institute

This is an interesting museum that provides a good introduction to Aboriginal culture. Every day at noon there is either a didgeridoo demonstration or a Torres Strait Islander dance demonstration.

253 East Terrace, Adelaide

Bus 99C City Loop, 122-125, 130-137, 820-821, 830F, 840F-843F

Tel (08) 8224 3200

Website www.tandanya.com.au

Admission $4

Open 10am-5pm daily