Description of the attraction
The South Australian Art Gallery is South Australia's premier cultural institution. Located in the "cultural quarter" of Adelaide - adjacent to the State Library, the Museum of South Australia and the University of Adelaide - the gallery presents the world's richest collection of Australian art, primarily Aboriginal, European and Asian. More than half a million people visit the gallery annually to see 35,000 exhibits, the second largest art collection in the country. Among the exhibits are paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings, photographs, textiles, ceramics, precious stones and even furniture!
The gallery was opened in 1881 and until 1967 was known as the National Gallery of South Australia. The gallery's funds grew and expanded, so in 1996 they had to move to a new building in the Victorian era. The main exposition of the gallery - landscapes and portraits of the 18-19th centuries - is updated every three years. A special place is occupied by the collection of paintings by English artists, which is considered one of the most complete outside the UK. Visitors to the gallery will be able to admire the canvases of Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Turner, Renoir. It is worth paying attention to the collection of drawings and prints by old masters - one of the richest in the world! It includes works by Dürer, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Tintoretto, etc. / p>
