The Hyde Park Barracks clock
Curator Gary Crockett discusses the history of the Hyde Park Barracks clock. Originally installed in 1819, it's the oldest continuously functioning public clock in Australia. Music by Cameron Elliot.
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Gary Crockett
Former curator
It was the dog-eared world of Rouse Hill House, back in 1991, that inspired Gary Crockett to become a curator. Gary produced exhibitions on convict, immigration and legal history at the Hyde Park Barracks, studied spatial history at the Museum of Sydney, collaborated with artists and tenants at Susannah Place, architects and engineers at Elizabeth Farm, designers at Rose Seidler House, curated Surf City, an ode to Sydney surf culture, along with a string of video, audioguide and interactive museum projects.