Susannah Place Museum

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Come in spinner!

Gambling in Australia is regulated by the state and some types of gambling are illegal. The game Two-up, with its catch cry of ‘Come in Spinner!’, is legal only on Anzac Day and only in some states

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Keeping time

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries watches were designed to carried on the person, attached to a waist hook, looped over a belt or as part of a chatelaine in the case of women

Black and white photo of children playing on equipment.

Childhood at Susannah Place

Growing up in a small inner-city house in mid 20th century Sydney involved being outdoors pretty much most of the time

Ellen Marshall’s kitchen dresser

(Re)making a home

An evocative collection of household items belonging to the last tenants of Susannah Place

Black and white image of a boy looking out a window

Growing up in the early 1900s

What was life like for ordinary working-class children living in the suburbs or on the fringes of Australian cities in the early 1900s?

Silver stylised horse drawing a chariot.

From the collection: staff favourites

We invite staff to write about their favourite object from our collections