Explore a ‘different’ North Terrace with your family and friends! Students from the South Australian School for Vision Impaired (SASVI) invite you to share their interactive and multi-sensory North Terrace experience.
This tour was created as part of DreamBIG Festival’s (formerly Come Out Children’s Festival) Big Family Weekend. The History Trust of South Australia and Children’s University worked on a collaborative project together with SASVI. The students at SASVI are legally blind, have less than 6/60 vision or have severe field restrictions; making it difficult for them to interpret and interact with traditional exhibitions or displays. The SASVI students wanted to be able to create a history themed trail for the 2017 History Festival, that any child can do and that can demonstrate unique ways of exploring well-known spaces. SASVI students from Year 2-7 explored North Terrace identifying interesting and significant landmarks they thought should be included. Together they compiled lists, took photographs, recorded soundscapes and described what they could hear, smell and touch. Particular items of interest include statues, fountains, memorials, trees and sculptures. SASVI want you to join in the fun!
To download a hard copy version of the trail, click here!
North Terrace began as a dirt road and was made between 1836 and 1841. – Aaron
We start our tour of North Terrace fountains in front of the Brookman Building, at the corner of Frome Street and North Terrace, Adelaide.
Corner of North Terrace and, Frome Rd, Adelaide SA 5001, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
This fountain is outside the University of SA Brookman Building.
The University of Adelaide is a commanding presence on North Terrace. It began in 1874 when South Australia was less than 40 years old, with a population of about 200,000 people.
Goodman Crescent, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
The University of Adelaide is a commanding presence on North Terrace. It began in 1874 when South Australia was less than 40 years old, with a population of about 200,000 people.
The Art Gallery of South Australia is one of several major cultural institutions that line North Terace between Kintore Avenue and Frome Road.
221 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
The classical building of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with its gracious colonnaded portico, is one of the cultural landmarks on North Terrace.
Our next fountain is outside the South Australian Museum. It is called 14 Pieces.
221 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
14 Pieces is a sculpture fountain based on the opalised fossilised vertebrae of the Ichthyosaur in the South Australian Museum.
This fountain is outside the State Library of South Australia. This fountain is called Bill’s Fountain. Can you find the plaque?
Institute Building, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
This fountain is a memorial to William Faulding Scammell, AO, CBE who was Chancellor of Adelaide University from 1991 to 1998.
South Australia became the first state in Australia to build a memorial for the First World War.
190 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
South Australia became the first state in Australia to build a memorial for the First World War.
