Sydney Open Series
The Sydney Open Series is a continuation of the Sydney Open annual program throughout the calendar year and will present talks, workshops, and tours in addition to the City Pass program.
The series will focus on history, architecture, design innovation, sustainability and heritage.
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What's on
Browse all![The Strand Arcade, QVB Sydney Open Series 2024](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/06/e3f00328d2c1450686b8aee4b66d4e4b.jpg)
25 July & 22 August, 5.30pm & 7pm
Tour
The Strand Arcade Twilight Tour
Join us for an exclusive guided tour of the Strand Arcade – the last surviving Victorian-era shopping arcade in Sydney
Thursday 25 July 5.30pm–6.30pm
Architecture & design stories
Browse all![The Mint](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/03/b6071a0255744d55888d2be569b8166b.jpg)
Museum stories
The changing face of the Mint
As photographers documented the evolving face of the Mint, they recorded changes to the site and streetscape
![Black and white image of a sandstone building. A man can be seen in the foreground.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/73b9a81b9c80c302bd1d758acb7347003848cf31-2296x1648.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Museum stories
Gritty business
Immerse yourself in Sydney's chilling criminal past in this unique water-front museum of policing, law and disorder – with its grizzly collection of underworld weapons along with tales of mayhem and lawlessness, aptly described as an educational resource befitting a 'professor in crime'
![[First Government House, Sydney] / watercolour drawing by John Eyre](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/11/8b76679c68c649dbb0ab45cfb954e5fb.jpg)
Museum stories
First encounters
The Museum of Sydney is built on and around a site that links us to the very beginnings of modern Australia
![A large group of men stand in front of a train carriage at the Eveleigh Workshops in 1917](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/88189e5117130d462bb3946522fe6e9afa118636-1688x1312.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Eveleigh Workshops during the 1917 railway strike
On 2 August 1917 the General Strike began. It started in the Randwick Rail Workshops & Eveleigh Carriage Workshops & quickly spread to other industries until about 100,000 workers were on strike
![Deck and Harry Seidler mural at Rose Seidler House.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/09/996818cb770447c1a0b1a3072faf0560.jpg)
A new way of living
Once word spread about the newly built Rose Seidler House in 1950, it was the ‘most talked about house in Sydney’. Seventy years on, it's impossible to deny the strength and daring of Seidler's vision
![Large 2 storey building with deep verandahs, steps leading to lower verandah and bushes and driveway in the foreground.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/b592fbcdb4bde2ca92fc642e8e568e101a65a8cd-1366x1034.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Museum stories
A rum deal
When Lachlan Macquarie began his term as governor of NSW in 1810, Sydney was in desperate need of a new hospital
![Fireworks above the Opera House on the night of the official opening, before the commencement of the opening concert. October 20th 1973.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/06/935978f9fcbd497e8a7e06193f7d5708.jpg)
Opening of the Sydney Opera House
The Opera House was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen on 20 October 1973. This was followed by a two-week festival of events
![Government Printing Office 3 - 20815 - First live concert in the Sydney Opera House for the purpose of testing the acoustics [Public Works; concert halls] [17/12/1972]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/06/ab89c3238ada4639bfd20d3b854b449a.jpg)
Productions & performances held at the Sydney Opera House
We hold records of productions and performances held at the Sydney Opera House