Detailed information about the landmark. Description, photos and map with the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Art Gallery of South Australia.
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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 Museum of South Australia and the University of Adelaide - the gallery is home to an internationally renowned collection of Australian art, primarily Aboriginal, but also European and Asian.
More than half a million people visit the gallery each year to view its 35,000 exhibits - the second largest art collection in the country.
Exhibits include paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, ceramics, gemstones and even furniture!
The gallery opened in 1881 and was known as the National Gallery of South Australia until 1967.
The gallery's holdings grew and expanded, so that in 1996 it had to move to a new Victorian-era building.
The gallery's main exhibition, landscapes and portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries, is renewed every three years.
A special place is occupied by the collection of paintings by English artists, which is considered to be one of the most complete outside Britain. Visitors to the gallery can admire the canvases by Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Turner, Renoir.
The collection of drawings and engravings by the Old Masters is one of the richest in the world!
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