First Government House
Featured exhibition
Unearthed
Even the most ordinary object has many stories to tell, depending on how you look at it
Friday 5 December
Featured exhibition
Dig It!
Head to our dig site, grab your tools and become an archaeologist at the Museum of Sydney
Friday 5 December
A closer look at bricks
A high-tech research collaboration is giving us new insights into some very familiar objects from our vast archaeological collection
Museum stories
Excavating Australia’s first Government House
Did you know that when you walk into the Museum of Sydney, you’re walking over the remains of one of the most significant buildings in Australia’s history?
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Digging up the past
Use this animal skeleton, found at the site of First Government House, to develop students’ archaeological investigation skills and knowledge of animal biology
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Object analysis
Investigate what objects can tell us about the past by exploring these 3D scans of collection objects from MHSNW
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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
Museum stories
Life at Government House in the Macquarie era
Historian Jane Kelso describes a busy schedule of social gatherings and official events at Sydney's Government House during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie
First Government House foundation plate
When the foundation plate was rediscovered in 1899 the site of first Government House was a distant memory