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
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7 December 5.30pm
Talk
Sails, Octopuses, and Telescopic Cranes
An evening celebrating the construction of the Sydney Opera House through a talk, panel discussion and virtual reality experience
Architecture & design stories
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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

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

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

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

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

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