Heritage South Australia

23/06/2025

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This weekend the State Heritage SA Musuem will be hosting their two-day Vikingfest ⚔️🍻🔥
Discover handcrafted costumes, textiles, woodwork, leather goods, longbows, forged items, jewellery and replica weapons all while sipping on locally brewed mead. Enjoy medieval combat exhibitions, re-enactments and axe throwing, all set to the sights and sounds of medieval music and entertainment. Dress up is encouraged with prizes for the best medieval costume and Viking beard awarded each day.

This event is FREE!

Join us for VikingFest – a two-day celebration of Norse culture at the South Australian Museum.

22/06/2025

Today's is 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 🌿⛲️

Mount Schank is a complex volcanic maar-cone structure, rising some 100 metres above the surrounding plain. The main cone measures approximately 450 metres from rim to rim. The complex consists of a large tuff (ash) crater, scoria cones and explosion craters, as well as natural vents and remains of a basalt lava flow. Mount Schank is one of only two recent volcanic landforms in South Australia which have been relatively unaffected by erosion and, with the nearby Mount Gambier, is significant for representing the most recent volcanic activity on mainland Australia, formed about 4,500 years ago.
Confirmed as a State Heritage Area in 1992. Boandik Country.

📷 DEW Files, State Library of South Australia (B-69399) & AGSA

20/06/2025

Save the date for the upcoming Heritage Standard consultation sessions for Beltana State Heritage Area 📢🌿

More details to follow.

Historic Beltana Outback Communities Authority Beltana Progress Association Beltana Community Noticeboard

19/06/2025

Adelaide Town Hall, opened 20 June 1866. Designed by architect E. W. Wright, the building cost £24,000. Its opening day was entirely devoted to the inauguration. A grand ball was held two days later to celebrate the Town Hall’s opening, approximately 800 patrons attended. Other structures were gradually built on the site over the years such as The Prince Alfred Hotel, Queen’s Chamber, Eagle Chambers and Gladstone Chambers.
Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in 1980. Located on Kaurna Country.

📷 State library of South Australia & Adelaide Town Hall

18/06/2025

As Adelaide is the city of churches, every week we highlight one of our iconic and important South Australian churches. ⛪️🕍
This week we are pointing the spotlight on: 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬

The Church reflects the close-knit community established by the Polish settlers in the area in the 1850’s. The first group of Polish immigrants arrived in South Australia in 1838, and another group, who arrived in 1844 moved to Sevenhill East, and developed a community which became known as Polish Hill.
The Church was built in 1869-70 and the completed Church was blessed 30 November 1871. The first Polish priest, Fr. Leon Rogalski, arrived in 1870.
Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in 1980. Located on Ngadjuri Country.

📷 DEW Files & ExplorOz

17/06/2025

The National Art Gallery of South Australia opened its first exhibition 18 June 1881 in the present Mortlock wing of the State Library of South Australia. Approximately 94,000 visitors attended the exhibition, with artworks acquired through a government grant, and loaned pieces from Queen Victoria and the public. Now known as the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Gallery moved to its permanent home on North Terrace in 1899.
The Gallery was confirmed as a State Heritage Place in 1980, and the Mortlock Wing was confirmed as a State Heritage Place in 1981. Located on Kaurna Country.

📷 State library of South Australia, Experience Adelaide & AGSA

17/06/2025

We are seeking any photos you may have of the Sisalkraft Factory Complex.

The South Australian Heritage Council believes the Sisalkraft Factory Complex, 356 Torrens Road, Kilkenny is of heritage significance and has therefore provisionally entered it in the SA Heritage Register.

To support the documentation for this place, Heritage SA is now seeking any old photos you may have of the landscape surrounding the Sisalkraft Factory Complex?

Please share any photos in reply to this post, or you can email them through to Heritage SA at [email protected]

Furthermore, if you would like to have your say on whether you believe this place meets the criteria for State heritage listing, you can put in a submission. It is out for consultation until 15 August 2025.

Through the web link below there are more details about the significance of the Sisalkraft Factory and how to put in a submission:

https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/heritage/sa-heritage-register/entries-confirmations

History Trust of South Australia History Council of South Australia Heritage National Trust - South Australia

16/06/2025

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If you are ever looking for a safe and secure way to get a little closer to some of our fascinating Port River shipwrecks, Kayaking is a fun and fit way to do so!

Dolphin Sanctuary Kayak Tours offers a choice between guided and self-guided tours through the Adelaide Dolphin sanctuary, following the Maritime Heritage Trail.

Enjoyable any time of the year and eco-friendly.

Dolphin Sanctuary Kayak Tours is the only kayak company at Garden Island, Port Adelaide to operate from private facilities – there is a club house, private toilets, private beach and ramps and we have secure lock up parking whilst you are out on your tour.

15/06/2025

Today's is the 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐲'𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞🌿⛲️

Hugh Proby was the third son of Scottish Nobleman, the Earl of Carysfort. Proby passed at 24 years old after drowning in Willochra Creek in 1852. His grave is located in Yarrah, the half-tonne granite tablet marking his grave was sent from Scotland by his brothers and sisters.
Confirmed as a Local Heritage Place in 2013. Located on Banggarla Country.

📷 ExplorOz

13/06/2025

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On Thursday 5th June, Keith Conlon OAM was awarded the Key to the City of Adelaide by the Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith. This award recognises Keith’s unwavering commitment to promote Adelaide’s heritage and history. 

12/06/2025

This 100-year flashback image from the Semaphore foreshore was taken in approximately 1925. You can see the State Heritage Semaphore Jetty, built in 1859, confirmed in 1993. The carousel in the forefront deceivingly isn’t the State Heritage Semaphore Carousel, it joined the foreshore in 1938, confirmed in 2023. How much has the foreshore changed in 100 years?

📷 State Library of South Australia (B-2438).