Museum of Sydney
Explore the character, cultures and soul of the city
Built over and around the remains of Sydney’s First Government House, the Museum of Sydney is transforming into a new First Nations cultural space. Join us on Gadigal Country for a changing program of exhibitions, events and conversations that explore the character, cultures and soul of this city, and celebrate the diversity, strength and resilience of its First Nations custodians.
![The forecourt in front of the Museum of Sydney](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/01/672c8b16118a470aa70b570e163e838e.jpg)
The future of the colony's dreaming
The Museum of Sydney site is set to be transformed into a new First Nations cultural space
Museum of Sydney
Gadigal Country
Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000- Cafe
- Wheelchair accessible
Exhibitions & displays
![The first three decades (decade 3), Coomaditchie artists and community members, 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 302cm x 213.5 cm.
Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/01/1d30872a02ee4f2b96517367cc5a0024.jpg)
Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. These loving and lyrical artworks, which include paintings, ceramics and screen-prints, speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories
![Ngaya (I am)](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/01/17e1d3e6867f44a09333d876bd71be48.jpg)
Ngaya (I am)
‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his video installation, a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW
![Cast in cast out, Denis Golding, 2020, epoxy resin, iron oxides, concrete, acrylic, edition etching rag](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/02/e10e457fb1034fcd83778d1d82d0ba4d.jpg)
Cast in cast out
An evocative artwork by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding
![Edge of the Trees installation, Museum of Sydney forecourt](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/11/8a8311aacdc342c6a8c2c4365dfc4a41.jpg)
Edge of Trees
This site-specific piece commissioned for the forecourt of the Museum of Sydney at its opening in 1995 was created by artists Fiona Foley and Janet Laurence
![](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/0d4f5131ff52436e992c9908a5debe8d.jpg)
Yura Nura: People & Country
Yura Nura: People & Country presents contemporary Aboriginal reflections on the history of Sydney and colonisation
![First Fleet ship models, Museum of Sydney](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/11/d4274c143c8540108360204495050dde.jpg)
First Fleet Ships
This display explores the journey, arrival and first contacts of this fleet’s largely unwilling human cargo
Stories
Browse all![[First Government House, Sydney] / watercolour drawing by John Eyre](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/11/8b76679c68c649dbb0ab45cfb954e5fb.jpg)
First encounters
The Museum of Sydney is built on and around a site that links us to the very beginnings of modern Australia
![Handpainted image from book of woman in canoe. Margins of page visible on left and right.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/e5a79c8e9a1d1203ea14574b9ad064db4758eac6-1748x984.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
A fisher woman of Warrane
Daringa’s short but fascinating life reflects the connection of coastal Aboriginal peoples to the water, and the key role played by women in the fishing economy
![Paiting showing boats and Aboriginal people in canoes](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/fccaa511dae1288eea1cdbc9c17742c64d1bf62d-1895x868.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
The convict impact on Aboriginal people
Impacts of the convict system on Aboriginal Country and communities
Learning programs
Browse all![Two girls in school uniform making string in exhibition space with other students behind.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/68bfbbdba2234e5fa08e2607dbc09b01.jpg)
Garuwanga Gurad (stories that belong to Country)
During this program at Museum of Sydney, on the site of first Government House, students have a unique opportunity to explore links between Indigenous and European histories, cultures and perspectives in the expanding Sydney colony of the 1800
![Students exploring the Edge of the Trees sculpture at Museum of Sydney for Whose Place program](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/e7b185edf3c54605a161c3c94df3ce4e.jpg)
Whose Place?
During this thought-provoking and engaging program, students learn that this place was an important site of contact between British and Aboriginal people