Collections

Jacqui Newling grating ginger on a wooden board, with lemons and sugar loaves, to make ginger beer
Workshop

Food and Memory

Have you ever wanted to record your family recipes and food stories? Do you like to play with words and ideas?

Sunday 27 July 10am–12.30pm

The Spa subsidised school

A curious index card unlocks information about a unique subsidised school, whose history has been preserved within the State Archives Collection

Panoramic views of Port Jackson
Now showing
Featured exhibition

Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country

This exhibition depicts the development of the NSW colony through a selection of historical maps, plans, sketches, artworks and objects

Thursday 17 April
Government and General Order regarding the 'civilisation of the Aborigines', 10 December 1814
First Nations

Grief in the archives: a Blak reflection on Sorry Day

In this article, Dylan Hoskins, Project Assistant on the First Nations Community Access to Archives project, reflects on the significance of National Sorry Day through his lived experience as an Aboriginal person

An immersive solution to preserving the past

An important part of Collections Care work at the Western Sydney Records Centre is to conserve records that have been requested by readers and assessed as requiring repair

Photograph of seven NSW Police capturers of the Andrew George Scott (alias Captain Moonlite) gang of bushrangers, New South Wales, Australia, 1879, reproduction black and white photograph
Talk

In conversation: Community Policing, Policing a Community

On the anniversary of the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (24 June 1978), join us for this special Collections Series event

Tuesday 24 June 6pm–7.30pm
c.1923 coloured sketch of alternative cantilever Sydney Harbour Bridge

State Archives Collection

Making history every day

Tapis linoleum : saisons 1893-94 / John Barry, Ostlere & Co. Ltd., fabricants a Kirkcaldy (Ecosse) [trade catalogue]
Featured display

Repurposed: Creative reuse in the library collection

Our current library display explores the unique and sometimes surprising ways in which items from the library collection have been repurposed

Tuesday 11 March
Woodgraining tools, rollers, stamps, combs

Caroline Simpson Collection

Home and garden design, history and life