What's on
This Month
Featured display | Exhibition
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Caroline Simpson Library
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Caroline Simpson Library, which was created through an extraordinary cultural gift donated by the children of Caroline Simpson OAM (1930–2003).
27 February 2024 – 12 July 2024
Caroline Simpson Library
Now showing
Featured display | Exhibition
Cast in cast out
An evocative artwork by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding
16 March – 4 August 2024
Museum of Sydney
Now showing
Featured exhibition | Exhibition
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
16 March – 25 August 2024
Museum of Sydney
Now showing
Featured exhibition | Exhibition
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
30 March – 25 August 2024
Museum of Sydney
26 May, 6pm
Performance | Event
Sonic Spaces
Join us for an intimate series of music performances in one of the city’s most unique spaces, the hammock room at the Hyde Park Barracks
21 April 2024 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Hyde Park Barracks
28 April, 9am
Tour | Event
Members Hour: Rouse Hill Estate
Experience Members Hour at Rouse Hill Estate
28 April 2024 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Rouse Hill Estate
2 May, 11.30am
Talk | Event
Coomaditchie Artists in Conversation
Hear from senior Coomaditchie artists in conversation with First Nations Curator Tess Allas
02 May 2024 1:30 AM - 2:30 AM
Museum of Sydney
3 May, 6pm
Event | Event
A night at the Macarthurs at Elizabeth Farm
As night falls on Dharug Country, at Elizabeth Farm the curtains are drawn, the dining table is set and the fire has been lit in the Macarthurs’ Drawing Room
03 May 2024 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Elizabeth Farm
4 May, various times
Tour | Event
Curator-led tour of Rose Seidler House & Julian Rose House
Enjoy a tour of Rose Seidler House with Museums of History NSW curator Michael Lech, plus a rare peek at the Julian Rose House with Brian Seidler AM
04 May 2024 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Rose Seidler House
9 May 12pm & 1.20pm
Tour | Event
Members heritage tours: White Bay Power Station
Decommissioned in 1984, Sydney’s longest-serving power station at White Bay will once again energise Sydney as part of the 2024 Biennale of Sydney
Thursday 9 May
12pm–1pm
1.20pm–2.20pm
17 May, 10.30am
Online talk | Event
Unlocking Past Lives
Join Mathew Stephens, research librarian at the Caroline Simpson Library, as he uses the library’s specialist collection to explore the contexts of a selection of historic family photographs.
17 May 2024 11:30 PM - 12:30 AM
18 May, 1.30pm
Tour | Event
Wentworth Mausoleum walking tour
Join us for a walking tour to the rarely opened Wentworth Mausoleum and learn about William Charles Wentworth’s extravagant 1873 state funeral
18 May 2024 3:30 AM - 4:00 AM
Vaucluse House
21 May, 6pm
Talk | Event
Creating Imagined Interiors
Join Melinda Doring, Craig McPherson and Joanna Nicholas as they discuss different approaches to creating interiors
21 May 2024 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Caroline Simpson Library
25 May, 11.30am
Tour | Event
Coomaditchie: The Art Of Place Curator Talk
Join First Nations Curator Tess Allas for a tour of the thought-provoking exhibition Coomaditchie: The Art of Place
25 May 2024 12:30 AM - 1:15 AM
Museum of Sydney
Permanent display | Exhibition
Australian monument to the Great Irish Famine
The Australian monument to the Great Irish Famine is located on the southern wall of the Hyde Park Barracks
Display
Hyde Park Barracks
Permanent display | Exhibition
Yura Nura: People & Country
Yura Nura: People & Country presents contemporary Aboriginal reflections on the history of Sydney and colonisation
Display
Museum of Sydney
Permanent display | Exhibition
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
Display
Museum of Sydney
Permanent display | Exhibition
First Fleet Ships
This display explores the journey, arrival and first contacts of this fleet’s largely unwilling human cargo
Display
Museum of Sydney
Permanent display | Exhibition
Healing land, remembering Country
A powerful work by Kuku Yalanji artist Tony Albert
Display
Elizabeth Farm
Permanent display | Exhibition
Rouse Hill Estate in LEGO® Bricks
Featuring amazing models of the iconic Rouse Hill House, outbuildings, stable and barns constructed from LEGO® bricks
Display
Rouse Hill Estate
Permanent display | Exhibition
Alexander Riley, legendary Aboriginal police tracker
The remarkable talents of Aboriginal trackers who worked for NSW Police in the 20th century are featured in a display at the Justice & Police Museum
Display
Justice & Police Museum