Performing Arts Collection

Performing Arts Collection of South Australia, Adelaide Festival Centre

The Performing Arts Collection is home to many prestigious and unique collections that embody over 200 hundred years of South Australian performing arts history. It represents the contributions South Australians have made, both on stage and behind-the-scenes, to the performing arts industry across the board. From its humble beginnings under the auspices of the State Theatre Company in 1979, the Performing Arts Collection celebrates its 30^th birthday in 2009 as a rich and vast performing arts resource, like no other, at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

It holds of some of the finest costumes worn by Australia’s most memorable actors and opera singers, costume designs and set models drawn and made by Australia’s significant designers and artists, personal archives once belonging to some of theatre’s greats, production photographs, ventriloquist dolls, puppets, musical instruments, theatre interiors plus an astonishing program collection dating back to 1881.

Watch for changing displays at the Festival Theatre foyer showcases.

Visit the collection by appointment only:

Jo Peoples
Exhibitions Coordinator
08 8216 8769
jo.peoples@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Tuesday and Thursday

Helen Trepa
Collection Coordinator
08 8216 8995
helen.trepa@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Monday, Thursday and Friday