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Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Australian collection includes
Colonial watercolours which, to avoid
deterioration, are only shown for a few
weeks each year, such as Charles Meere’s
Australian Beach Pattern (1940).

Elizabeth Bay House
The dining room is elegantly
furnished to the 1840s period,
when the Colonial Secretary
THE ROCKS Alexander Macleay briefly lived
AND CIRCULAR in the house that ultim ately
QUAY caused his bankruptcy.

BOTANIC
GARDEN AND
THE DOMAIN

CITY
CENTRE

Hyde Park Barracks Museum
KINGS CROSS AND Originally built by convicts for their
DARLINGHURST own incarceration, these barracks were
later home to poor female immigrants.
Exhibits recall the daily life of these
occupants.

DARLING HARBOUR
AND SURRY HILLS

PADDINGTON Sydney Jewish Museum
The history of the city’s
Jewish community
is documented
Australian Museum here. Included is a
Discover the Earth’s age, find out reconstruction of
about meteorites, volcanic activity George Street in 1848,
and dinosaurs at Australia’s largest a major location for
natural history museum. Jewish businesses.

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