Explore and celebrate the human history of our oceans and rivers.
Giving the past a future now!
Giving the past a future now!
The theme for South Australia’s History Festival 2024 is POWER. The 2024 Festival campaign will feature one hundred portrait photographs of one hundred South Australians. One hundred stories. One hundred pieces of South Australian history.
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The Vickers Vimy aeroplane is an iconic part of South Australia's history and has recently been unveiled at its new home in Adelaide Airport. Read all about the aeroplane and it's brave crew here.
When the Overland Telegraph Line was completed on 22 August 1872, it activated a communication wire across the Australian continent, from Adelaide to Port Darwin, that connected the Australian colonies to each other, to the rest of the British Empire and to the world.
Explore the stories and objects from South Australia's State History Collection.
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An interactive way to engage with the history of our city; the people, the communities, the stories and the places.
South Australian Maritime Museum’s walking tour app that explores the historic precinct of Port Adelaide.
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