Few sporting grounds blend Victorian heritage with modern scale as comfortably as Adelaide Oval, the long-standing home of cricket and Australian rules football in South Australia. The playing surface was levelled and planted in 1871, and the arena was officially opened with a match in December 1873 between colonial-born and overseas-born teams in front of only a few hundred spectators. Across the following century it grew into one of the country's most photographed venues, ringed by the parklan.....

Opened in May 1883, Adelaide Zoo is the second-oldest zoo in Australia and one of the few major city zoos still run by a not-for-profit society rather than a government department. It was founded by the South Australian Acclimatisation and Zoological Society on land carved from the adjoining Botanic Park, and several of its first buildings survive, including the polychrome brick and cast-iron front gates of 1883 and the former Elephant House. The grounds double as a botanic garden, with mature t.....

The Art Gallery of New South Wales began life in 1871 as the New South Wales Academy of Art, holding exhibitions and buying its first works a few years later to support living colonial artists. Its first permanent home, opened in 1880, was a freestanding gallery built for the Sydney International Exhibition; the grand sandstone building that fronts the Domain today, with its classical portico and the names of European masters carved across the facade, was completed in stages from the 1890s. That.....

A fifteen-minute glide above the treetops of the Mornington Peninsula is the simplest way to reach the summit of Arthurs Seat, and the Arthurs Seat Eagle gondola has carried visitors there since December 2016. The cabins replaced a chairlift that had operated on the hill from the 1960s until it closed in 2006 after a series of safety problems; the new system, built for around twenty million dollars, uses enclosed gondolas strung along a cable more than a kilometre long that climbs over two hundr.....

Billed as Australia's first immersive trick-art gallery, ArtVo turns the usual museum rule of look-but-do-not-touch on its head and asks visitors to climb into the artwork instead. It opened at The District Docklands in 2016 and spreads over roughly 1,400 square metres on a single level, divided into themed zones filled with large-scale murals painted directly onto the walls and floors. Each scene is built using forced perspective, so that when a visitor stands on a marked spot and a camera is h.....

Home to what is described as Australia's oldest and most famous hedge maze, Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens occupies about twenty-five acres of the Mornington Peninsula near Shoreham. The traditional maze is grown from more than a thousand cypress trees, now standing over three metres high and around two metres thick, and a keeper clips the hedges several times a year to hold their curved, sculpted shape. Finding the centre and then the way out is the original drawcard, but the site has grown w.....

One of Melbourne's oldest and most storied cultural buildings, the Athenaeum stands on Collins Street in the heart of the city and houses Athenaeum Theatre, a much-loved venue for theatre, comedy, music and live events. The institution traces its roots to the 1830s, and the present building, with its distinctive facade crowned by a statue of the goddess Athena, has been a centre of Melbourne intellectual and artistic life for well over a century. Athenaeum Theatre One, the main auditorium, seat.....

The Australian National Maritime Museum sets out to tell the story of a nation shaped by the sea, from the seafaring traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to convict transportation, immigration, naval history, trade and surf culture. Opened on the western side of Darling Harbour in November 1991, its sail-like building was designed by the architect Philip Cox and sits right on the water, blurring the line between the galleries inside and the working fleet moored alongside. .....

Few nations wear their sporting obsession as openly as Australia, and the Australian Sports Museum gathers that passion under one roof inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Reached through Gate 3 of the stadium, it holds the country's largest collection of sporting memorabilia, covering cricket, Australian rules football, the summer and winter Olympics, tennis, rugby league and union, soccer, basketball, boxing, netball and horse racing. The Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the Australian Racing Mus.....

Stencilled rats, riot police clutching smiley-face balloons and a girl reaching for a heart drifting out of frame are among the images that have made the anonymous British artist Banksy a household name, and Banksy Limitless gathers hundreds of them into a single immersive show. Staged at 155 George Street in the historic Rocks district, the exhibition arrived in Sydney in 2026 after a long London season, presenting reproductions, certified works, sculptures, large-scale murals and digital insta.....