The Wollondilly Heritage Centre
The Wollondilly Heritage Centre was built by volunteers from The Oaks Historical Society with funding through the NSW Bicentennial Committee in 1988, on land donated by Wollondilly Shire Council. The award winning complex now comprises five buildings which tell the stories of the people of Burragorang Valley, Yerranderie, The Oaks and many of the 15
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Willoughby Museum
WILLOUGHBY MUSEUM operated by the Willoughby District Historical Society is housed in the 1913 Federation cottage, Boronia, at 58 Johnson Street Chatswood (Sydney, Australia). There are a number of permanent exhibitions within the Museum plus special exhibitions from time to time. The Museum focuses on four core themes: Local industries and working lives Domestic life Towns, suburbs
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Sydney Tramway Museum
South Pacific Electric Railway Co-Operative Society Limited (SPER), under the trading name ‘Sydney Tramway Museum’ (STM), restores and operates heritage tramway rolling stock to provide a tourist attraction for people visiting the Loftus museum which is located in the Sutherland Shire of New South Wales. STM aims to provide tourists with a heritage tram travel
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Sutherland Shire Historical Society & Museum
The Sutherland Shire Historical Society & Museum has moved to 88 Venetia Street, Sylvania. Sutherland Shire Historical Society, founded in 1966, is a community group interested in preserving and raising awareness of our local history – from Aboriginal occupation to the arrival of Captain Cook and white settlement up to present day industry. We tell
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NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
The NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education provides a glimpse of schooling from the past. The museum was the first building of North Ryde Public School with the original schoolroom built in 1877 for 45 pupils with extra rooms added in 1883 and 1910. The museum collects and protects furniture, objects, books, documents and photographs
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Museum of Human Disease
Know your enemy. Listed as one of the world’s 10 weirdest museums by CNN in 2013, we house a collection of the top 20 killers in Australia. We have displays on diseases long forgotten and those we bring on ourselves. Want to know what will cause the deaths of 99% of Australia this year as well
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Parramatta Heritage Visitor and Information Centre
Visiting Parramatta? Overlooking Parramatta River and located in the cultural heart of the city, the Heritage Centre brings Parramatta’s history to life. Curious about your family history, or the history of your house? Writing a school project, thesis or book? You’ll find many resources in the Parramatta City Council’s Research Library, Cultural Collections and the Council Archives
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Museum of Fire
The Museum of Fire aims to be the foremost Australian museum on the understanding of the experience of fire. Most prominently the Museum stands as a testimony to the heroic efforts of firefighters in our community, guarding their history and heritage for future generations. Housing one of the finest collections of its kind in the
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Old Government House
Standing in 200 acres of parkland overlooking historic Parramatta, Old Government House is Australia’s oldest surviving public building. For seven decades, it was the ‘country’ residence of 10 early governors of the colony, including Governor and Mrs Macquarie who, from 1810 to 1821 preferred the clean air and space of rural Parramatta to the unsanitary
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Hambledon Cottage Museum
Hambledon Cottage was built by John Macarthur in 1824 on the grounds of his Elizabeth Farm Estate as additional accommodation for family and friends. It was home to many prominent Parramatta identities and is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. This elegant cottage is built of sandstock brick in the Colonial Georgian style and
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NSW Lancers Memorial Museum
Visit Commonwealth Heritage listed Lancer Barracks, mainland Australia’s oldest military barracks, and experience Australia’s oldest and most decorated surviving Regiment, both on the battlefield and in its ceremonial duties. With a retired Lancer as your personal guide, the Museum of the 1st/15th Royal NSW Lancers walks you through the Regiment’s history on the battlefields of
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Experiment Farm Cottage
Experiment Farm Cottage celebrates 50 years! 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) opening Experiment Farm Cottage as a house museum. On 20th July 1963 the NSW Governor Sir Eric Woodward officially opened the museum, the first such museum dedicated to Australian colonial furniture and lifestyle. On 20th July 2013
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Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum is located in a gracious Georgian building on the corner of George and Marsden Streets in Parramatta. It is the oldest existing dwelling house in the inner City of Parramatta and since 1983 has been a Medical and Nursing Museum for the former Parramatta Hospital. The building was constructed in
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Mary MacKillop Place Museum
What contribution have significant individuals and groups made to the development of Australian society? You will be amazed when the real story of these significant people is revealed through such pioneering women as Mary MacKillop [Saint Mary of the Cross] and the Sisters of St Joseph. Explore Mary’s story and the co-founder of the Sisters
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May Gibbs’ Nutcote
May Gibbs Nutcote is the former house and garden of May Gibbs, creator of Australia’s classic children’s’ story, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Nutcote was designed by prominent architect Bertrand James Waterhouse and built for May Gibb’s and her husband, James Ossili Kelly, in 1925. May occupied the house for 44 years until her death in 1969.
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North Sydney Heritage Centre
If you are interested in your family history or the history of your North Sydney house, then the North Sydney Heritage Centre can help. The Heritage Centre at Stanton Library documents the social, cultural and built heritage of the local area. You can access a wide variety of primary and secondary material for research; the
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Carisbrook House Museum
Every third weekend in the month, Carisbrook serves Devonshire Teas, coffee and cakes in the courtyard. Visitors to the house can take a self-guided tour with a multimedia device that will guide you through the rooms and tell you how life in the house was led in the Victorian era in Sydney’s developing suburbs. Carisbrook
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Hunters Hill Museum
Hunters Hill Museum holds artifacts and records of local families and buildings and scenes going back to the early 1800s. Hunters Hill is Australia’s oldest garden suburb and is one of the most historically significant local government areas in Australia. Many buildings date back to early colonial times. Early immigrants came from Italy, France, Ireland and
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Carss Cottage Museum
Carss Cottage sits like a jewel on the highest point of Carss Bush Park surrounded by beautiful trees and overlooking Kogarah Bay. It has been recognised, together with the park to be protected as a place of beauty and a permanent conservation order was placed on the area in 1988. The Museum is housed in
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Eryldene Historic House & Garden
Eryldene was the home of scholar and connoisseur Professor E G Waterhouse, and his wife, Janet. House and garden layout were designed by colonial revivalist architect, Hardy Wilson in 1913 and the place is the result of twenty years remarkable collaboration between client and architect. The whole place is an object of State heritage significance.
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