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Logo for WOMADAdelaide. WOMADelaide is an annual four-day festival of Music, Arts and Dance, which was first held in 1992 in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia.One of many WOMAD festivals held around the world, it is a four-day event that presents a diverse selection of music from artists around the world, as well as side events like talks and discussions.
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51-hectare (130-acre) public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands.It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace (between Lot Fourteen, the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, and the National Wine Centre) and behind it the Botanic Park (adjacent to the Adelaide Zoo).
Park/garden Park number Locality Adelaide Botanic Garden: Park 11: North Terrace (east) Adelaide Golf Links: Park 1: War Memorial Drive (north) Angas Gardens: Park 12: War Memorial Drive & King William Road: Barr Smith Walk: Park 26 (SW) River Torrens: Bonython Park: Park 27 (NW) Port Road (east) Botanic Park: Park 11: Hackney Road Brougham ...
In 1954 the State Herbarium of South Australia was founded as part of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. [4] The first flora collection of the state was produced by Richard Schomburgk (1811–1891) in 1875.
The park was acquired by the adjacent Adelaide Botanic Garden in 1866, [1] and was formerly used as the venue for the Royal Adelaide Show from 1844 to 1859. On its northern side are an avenue of plane trees planted in 1874. [1] It is also dotted with exotic species such as century-old Moreton Bay figs from Queensland. [1]
In 2024 Fire Gardens by French masters of flame Compagnie Carabosse took over Adelaide Botanic Garden. Families enjoyed EDEN by flora&faunavisions, Superluminal by Patch Theatre, and a new Adelaide Zoo event called Universal Kingdom: Prehistoric Nights. The free centerpiece City Lights returned to transform Adelaide’s iconic CBD institutions.
The Wine Centre is situated at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide in the east parklands and adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The building designed by Cox Grieve Gillett uses building materials to reflect items used in making wine. [2] The exterior of the building looks like a section of a wine barrel.
Venues included the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden. [44] It drew record crowds, with more than 240,000 people over a 93-day season under curator Erica Green. [ 45 ]