First Nations Hub
Welcome to the First Nations Hub, a space and place to celebrate and engage with First Nations cultures, knowledge and perspectives.
You will find First Nations content across our website, but this hub is a dedicated space that brings this content together so it’s easy to find, and for deeper stories, conversations, truth-telling and ideas. It’s a place for and by First Nations people and communities; a living space that will change and grow.
![A grid showing different presenters from the First Nations Speaker Series](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/de16be38af9ae48b9b452c81e7e9a1236868503b-1920x1026.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
First Nations Speaker Series
Catch up on fascinating discussions from contemporary authors, artists, curators, designers, and producers. Presented in collaboration with GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.
![Aboriginal Languages and Nations in NSW & ACT © Reconciliation NSW](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/9f72849687c5d0e1f901f72c90413900058926a3-1563x1563.png?fit=max&auto=format)
First Nations Community Access to Archives
This project aims to improve access for First Nations people to important archival material about culture, kinship, stories, and languages within the State Archives Collection
What's on
Browse all![Ngaya (I am)](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/01/17e1d3e6867f44a09333d876bd71be48.jpg)
Now showing
Featured exhibition
Ngaya (I am)
‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his video installation, a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Saturday 16 March
![The first three decades (decade 3), Coomaditchie artists and community members, 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 302cm x 213.5 cm.
Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/01/1d30872a02ee4f2b96517367cc5a0024.jpg)
Now showing
Featured exhibition
Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. These loving and lyrical artworks, which include paintings, ceramics and screen-prints, speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Saturday 30 March
![Coomaditchie: The Art of Place marketing photoshoot](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/07/ae7e7ad750504d649999aa4676cf4334.jpg)
31 July, 6pm
Talk
First Nations Speaker Series: Coomaditchie
This winter the First Nations Speaker Series will explore activism in the Illawarra region of NSW and beyond
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Wednesday 31 July 6pm–7pm
![Sergeant Tracker Alexander ‘Alec’ Riley, standing in police uniform](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/92e8deb95e9d0497e4d992b2166fd5c2851d3fc6-1600x1884.jpg?rect=0,0,1600,1247&fit=max&auto=format)
Permanent display
Alexander Riley, legendary Aboriginal police tracker
The remarkable talents of Aboriginal trackers who worked for NSW Police in the 20th century are featured in a display at the Justice & Police Museum
Corner Albert and Phillip streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Monday 18 September
![Edge of the Trees installation, Museum of Sydney forecourt](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/11/8a8311aacdc342c6a8c2c4365dfc4a41.jpg)
Permanent display
Edge of Trees
This site-specific piece commissioned for the forecourt of the Museum of Sydney at its opening in 1995 was created by artists Fiona Foley and Janet Laurence
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
Sunday 1 January
![Tony Albert, Healing land, remembering Country, 2020. Installation view for Elizabeth Farm (2020).](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/aac8b5adad244944bac0cae7acdac043.jpg)
Permanent display
Healing land, remembering Country
A powerful work by Kuku Yalanji artist Tony Albert
70 Alice Street, Rosehill NSW 2142
Permanent display
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Permanent display
Yura Nura: People & Country
Yura Nura: People & Country presents contemporary Aboriginal reflections on the history of Sydney and colonisation
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
First Nations stories
Browse all![Pencil drawing of Bathurst 1818, Plans of Government Buildings at Bathurst, Main series of letters received [Colonial Secretary], 1788–1826.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/ec5b53147e75bdc6536c142340cae04b71adc992-3203x1998.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Convict farmer Antonio Roderigo and a ‘dastardly massacre’
A dispute over potatoes farmed by convict-settler Antonio Roderigo was one of many hostile events between colonists and Wiradyuri people that led to the Bathurst War of 1824
![Coomaditchie Lagoon](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/04/0146a69a326e4242a1171dee896b8cfe.jpg)
First Nations
Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
The works of the Coomaditchie artists speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories
![The mission, Lorraine Brown, 2007](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/bc5573a87b323b94815e4a7562745ea4633a1e19-1500x894.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
First Nations
Coomaditchie: Of place
These works record the extraordinary arc the artists of Coomaditchie have travelled over more than three decades