First Nations

Candle light tour, Elizabeth Farm
Tour

A Winter's Night at Elizabeth Farm

Join us on a unique, informative, behind-the-scenes insight into life in the Macarthur home, at night-time

Saturday 26 July 6pm–8pm
Eora by Michael Riley
Featured display

Eora by Michael Riley

Eora, by the late Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi filmmaker and photographer Michael Riley (1960–2004), is a 20-minute digital film that tells the story of Sydney’s First Nations people – before and after colonisation

Saturday 7 December
Madjeri
Featured display

Madjeri

Madjeri (pronounced mud-jer-ee) is the Dharawal word for canoe or small floating vessel

Saturday 3 August
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
Anita Heiss
Talk

'Truth-Telling Through Fiction’: Anita Heiss in Conversation

Join award-winning writer Dr Anita Heiss in conversation with journalist Nicole Abadee to explore truth-telling in First Nations fiction

Thursday 24 July 6pm–7pm
Painting by Joseph Lycett
Tour

Members Hour: Museum of Sydney

Welcome to Members Hour at the Museum of Sydney with a special tour of the exhibition 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' led by exhibition co-curator Dr Penny Stannard

Wednesday 30 July 9am–10am
NAIDO Week celebrations at Rouse Hill Estate
Festival

NAIDOC Week 2025

NAIDOC Week (6–13 July) is a time to celebrate First Nations cultures, history and achievements

Sunday 13 July 10am–3pm
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

Our Ngura
First Nations

Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country: The Library of the Dreaming

Dharawal and Yuin designer Alison Page shares the knowledge and philosophies that define Aboriginal understandings of Country and the life that is lived on it