The Art Gallery of South Australia is South Australia's premier cultural institution. Located in Adelaide's 'cultural quarter' - next door to the State Library, the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide - the gallery has an internationally renowned and rich collection of Australian art, primarily Aboriginal, but also European and Asian. More than half a million people visit the gallery each year to see its 35,000 exhibits - the second largest art collection in the country. The exhibits include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, ceramics, gemstones, and even furniture!
The gallery was opened in 1881 and was known as the National Gallery of South Australia until 1967. The gallery's holdings grew and expanded so that it had to move to a new Victorian-style building in 1996. The gallery's main display of 18th and 19th century landscapes and portraits is updated every three years. A special place is given to the collection of paintings by English artists, which is considered one of the most complete outside the UK. Visitors of the gallery can admire the paintings of Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Turner, Renoir. The collection of Old Master drawings and prints is one of the richest in the world! It includes works by Dürer, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Tintoretto, etc.
