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section, a modern structure
facing Macquarie Street, houses
the State Reference Library and
a gourmet café.
Outside the library, also fac ing
Macquarie Street, is a statue
of explorer Matthew Flinders.
Behind him on the windowsill
is a statue of his covoyager
and faithful cat, Trim.
0 Parliament House
Macquarie St. Map 1 C4. Tel 9230
2111. @ Sydney Explorer, Elizabeth St
routes. Martin Place. 8 book in
advance 9230 3444. Open 9am–5pm
Mosaic replica of the Tasman Map in the State Library of NSW Mon–Fri. Closed most public hols. 7
∑ parliament.nsw.gov.au
9 State Library of ceiling frame the impressive
NSW vest ibule. On the vestibule floor The central section of this
is a mosaic replica of an old building, which houses the
Macquarie St. Map 1 C4. Tel 9273 map illustrating the two voyages State Parliament, is part of the
1414. @ Sydney Explorer, Elizabeth St made to Australia by Dutch original Sydney Hospital built
routes. Open 9am–8pm Mon–Thu, navigator Abel Tasman in in 1811–16. It has been a
9am–5pm Fri, 10am–5pm Sat & Sun. the 1640s. The original seat of government
Closed pub hols; Mitchell Library Tasman Map is held in since 1829, when the
closed Sun. - 7 8 =
∑ sl.nsw.gov.au the Mitchell Library newly appointed
as part of its large Legislative Council first
The State Library is housed col lection of historic held meetings here. The
in two separate buildings Australian paintings, building was extended
connected by a passageway books, documents twice during the 19th
and a glass bridge. The older and pictorial records. Malby’s century and again in
building, the Mitchell Library The Mitchell wing’s celestial globe, the 1970s and 1980s.
wing (1910), is a majestic sand vast reading room, with Parliament House The current building
stone edifice facing the Royal its huge skylight and contains the chambers
Botanic Garden. Huge stone oak panelling, is just beyond for both houses of state
columns supporting a vaulted the main vestibule. The newest parliament and parliamentary
Macquarie Street
@ Sydney Explorer, Elizabeth St routes. Circular Quay, Martin Pl, St James.
Named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the street was designed
as a ceremonial thoroughfare from the harbour to Hyde Park.
It houses some of Australia’s most important architectural and
historical treasures, the consulting rooms of the city’s top medical
specialists and the home of the state government.
The new wing of the The Legislative Assembly, the
library was built in 1988 and lower house of state parliament,
connected to the old section is furnished in the traditional green
by a glass walkway. of the British House of Commons.
Parliament House was
The Mitchell Library once the convictbuilt Rum
wing’s portico (1906) Hospital’s northern wing.
has Ionic columns.
State Library of NSW (1906–41) Parliament House (1811–16)
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