Architecture & design
On This Day
20 Dec 1926 - Sydney underground railway opened
On 20 December 1926 the first section of underground railway in Sydney began operating
On This Day
27 Nov 1889 - Sydney Town Hall opened
On 27 November 1889 the Sydney Town Hall was officially opened. The Town Hall was built on Gadigal land, throughout the 1880s, on the site of an old cemetery using local Sydney sandstone
A global design story
Their original owner and use remain a mystery, but these striking tiles hold an intriguing connection to a significant international design story
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
3 May, 6pm
Event
A night at the Macarthurs at Elizabeth Farm
As night falls on Dharug Country, at Elizabeth Farm the curtains are drawn, the dining table is set and the fire has been lit in the Macarthurs’ Drawing Room
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
A straight edge and a semicircle
Architect Harry Seidler & artist Frank Stella collaborated on just one project - Grosvenor Place. But the influence of Stella’s work is evident in the geometric plans of many towers & civic centres designed by Seidler
A taste for the ornate
Traces of long-lost decorative features at Elizabeth Farm provide insights into changing fashions in 19th‑century architecture and design
About John Gollings: The History Of The Built World
This exhibition explored over half a century of work from Australia’s foremost architectural photographer comes to the Museum of Sydney