Temora Aviation Museum
Temora has a rich and noteworthy aviation history having been home to the No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (10 EFTS) set up by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in May 1941. No 10 EFTS was the largest and longest lived of the flying schools established under the Empire Air Training Scheme during World
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Australian Golf Heritage Museum
The Australian Golf Heritage Museum is the only dedicated golf museum on the Australian mainland and our collection boasts everything from golf clubs and balls to clothes, photographs and film. Relocated to new premises within Strathfield Golf Club, our displays include: Early Golf: featuring two Tom Morris long nose clubs Having a Ball: a quick
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Arms of Australia Inn Museum
The Arms of Australia Inn Museum administered by the Nepean District Historical Society. Located in the Penrith Valley, at Emu Plains, the Arms of Australia Inn Museum sits at the gateway to the Blue Mountains National Park. The inn was once a staging post for travellers making the trip from Sydney over the Blue Mountains
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Crystal Kingdom Mineral Museum
If you are a ‘Rockhound’ or not, you will love the mineral and fossil display at the Crystal kingdom. It’s great, it’s unique and it is world-class, and all from the local area only. Here you will find the world’s rarest and most colourfull zeolite crystals and other rare minerals together with rare fossils from
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Roughley House
The Pines and Roughley House, built in 1856, has been home to five generations of the Roughley family from convict beginnings to community patrons. Named after the many towering pine trees planted by various generations of the family, the homestead commands views of the Blue Mountains and north western Sydney. Clive Roughley, youngest of five
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National Museum of Australian Pottery
Would you like a unique opportunity to further your knowledge and appreciation of our early Australian pottery heritage? Then why not visit the National Museum of Australian Pottery which is the only Museum dedicated to 19th and early 20th century Australian pottery and is the culmination of many years of collecting and research throughout Australia.
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Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park
The Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park presents the industrial history of the New South Wales Western Coalfield. We weave stories of the people who have been the backbone of the region’s mining industry for over 150 years around the tools and artefacts they used. Learn of the dangers of coalmining and comradeship of miners and
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Australian Museum
The Australian Museum (AM) was founded in 1827 and is the nation’s first museum. The AM has been transformed and visitors can now enjoy transformed spaces and updated amenities. Free general admission includes entry to all permanent exhibitions, as well as the Unsettled and Spark special exhibitions. The AM is internationally recognised as a natural
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Vaucluse House
Vaucluse House survives as one of Sydney’s only nineteenth-century harbourside estates with the house, kitchen wing, stables and outbuildings and is still surrounded by ten hectares of formal gardens and grounds. Built in 1803, Vaucluse House was once owned by William Charles Wentworth, father of the Australian Constitution, his wife Sarah and their immediate family
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The Mint
Built for a cost of 45,000 gallons of rum, The Mint is rich in history. It was originally part of Governor Macquarie’s ‘Rum’ hospital for convicts and later became the first branch of the Royal Mint outside London. Today The Mint is home to Museums of History NSW’s head office, the Caroline Simpson Library &
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Susannah Place Museum
Much of Sydney was built by immigrants, and this terrace of four tiny houses stands as a resilient reminder. Nestled in the heart of Sydney’s famous Rocks district, it has been home to more than 100 families over 150 years. Built by Irish immigrants in 1844, it has survived largely unchanged through the slum clearances
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Rouse Hill Estate
Home to six generations of one family through good times and the bad, Rouse Hill Estate and its stories still draw people to its doors. Each generation has added another layer of belongings, improvements and memories, and today, every object and addition, every tear, stain and repair, has a story to tell. The estate also
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Rose Seidler House
Rose Seidler House, built between 1948 and 1950, is one of the most uncompromising modernist houses in Australia. Nestled in natural bushland, the house has panoramic views of Ku-ring-gai National Park from its glass walls and sun-filled deck. Restored to its 1950s scheme, Rose Seidler House incorporates the modernist features of open planning, minimal colour
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Meroogal
Loved and maintained by four generations of women from one local family, Meroogal has barely changed since it was built in the 1880s. The house still overflows with their favourite belongings, and the garden with fruit and produce that hint at their self-sufficiency and hospitality. Books and ornaments, furniture, photographs, diaries and journals, clippings, recipes
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Hyde Park Barracks
A UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in the heart of historic Sydney, the Hyde Park Barracks is an extraordinary living record of early colonial Australia. Originally built to house convicts, the Barracks has also served as an immigration depot, asylum, law courts and government offices. Today it is a cutting-edge museum. Today this immersive museum tells
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Justice & Police Museum
Step into Sydney’s dark side. Crooks and cops, locals and drifters, the guilty and the innocent have all left their stories here. Originally a police station and courts, the museum draws you into a world of crime, policing and punishment, from bushrangers and razor gangs to the future of forensics. In a city that’s grown
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Government House
the state’s vice-regal home 1837 Step inside this magnificent Gothic Revival mansion overlooking the harbour, where dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II and the Pope were wined and dined. Take a guided tour of the great hall, grand dining room and elegant ballroom and wander the lavish estate, designed in England by famed architect Edward Blore.
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Elizabeth Farm
Built by wool pioneer John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth, this access-all-areas homestead is one of Australia’s oldest surviving European buildings. Relax on the shady verandah or stroll through the gorgeous 1830s garden, while the kids do the washing and play croquet. This restful homestead hides a dark and stormy past. Built for the young
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Elizabeth Bay House
With harbour views, sweeping staircases and spectacular landscaped gardens, Elizabeth Bay House was Sydney’s ultimate trophy home. Built for colonial secretary Alexander Macleay, after the governor, the most important public official in Sydney, it was by all accounts the finest house in the colony. Yet it tells a familiar story: of ambition and passion, of
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Museum of Sydney
Built over and around the remains of Sydney’s First Government House, join us at the Museum of Sydney 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. In 1788 Governor Phillip chose this
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