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collection of Aboriginal art in
the country. The Australian
Museum has displays ranging
from rocks and minerals, birds
and insects to the permanent
indigenous exhibition. In its
com munity access space, it also
presents performances that
celebrate Aboriginal culture.
The First Australians exhibit
at the Australian National
Maritime Museum includes
audio and video material, with
traditional tools made by
Aboriginal communities.
The Museum of Sydney The Georgian-style front bedroom in the cottage at Elizabeth Farm
uses images, artifacts and oral
histories to evoke the life of the visible under windows at the
Eora, the indigenous people of entrance to the museum. Specialist Museums
the Sydney region, up to the Susannah Place Museum The Nicholson Museum at the
years of first contact with the looks at working-class life in University of Sydney houses
European colonists. the 19th century. Cadman’s the southern hemisphere’s
Cottage, also in The Rocks, is largest collection of antiquities.
a simple stone dwelling dating The Justice and Police Museum
Colonial History from 1816 and the city’s oldest examines a far less comfortable
Elizabeth Bay House’s superb extant building. Adjacent is the history, investigating Australian
interior is furnished to show Sailors’ Home, built in 1864 crime and punishment, while
early Colonial life at its most as lodgings for visiting sailors. the Caroline Simpson Library
elegant, but while at first the It now houses the Billich Gallery, & Research Collection at The
house may appear to home to works by the Mint covers the history of
celebrate a success prominent Australian Australian homes and gardens.
story, the enormous Surrealist painter, Experiences of Jewish migrants
cost of its construction Charles Billich (see p69). to Australia and the story of the
brought bankruptcy to The important role of Holocaust are examined at the
its owner. Also built in gold in the history of Sydney Jewish Museum.
grand style, Vaucluse Australia and how it
House celebrates the determined patterns Finding the Museums
life and times of W C of migration and
Wentworth, explorer expansion are shown and Galleries
and politician. at the Powerhouse Art Gallery of NSW pp110–13
Experiment Farm Museum. Hyde Park Australian Museum pp90–91
Cottage, Hambledon Water dip Barracks Museum Australian National Maritime
Cottage and Elizabeth at Experiment evokes the often brutal Museum pp96–7
Farm in and around Farm Cottage lives and times of the Brett Whiteley Studio p132
Parramatta are testament convicts who were Cadman’s Cottage p70
to the crucial role of agriculture housed there in the early 19th Elizabeth Bay House p122
in the survival of a colony that century, while not neglecting Elizabeth Farm pp140–41
was brought to the brink of its other place in history as an Experiment Farm Cottage p141
starvation. The former has immigration depot. Hambledon Cottage p141
been restored as a gentleman’s Hyde Park Barracks
cottage of the mid-19th century, Museum pp116–17
while the latter two have been Justice and Police Museum p74
furnished to the period of The Mint p116
Museum of Contemporary
1820–50. Parramatta’s Old Art p75
Government House was once Museum of Sydney p87
the vice-regal “inland” residence. Nicholson Museum p132
The Colonial furniture on Old Government House p141
display predates 1855. Powerhouse Museum pp102–3
The Museum of Sydney S H Ervin Gallery, National
is built on the site of the first Trust Centre p75
Government House, close to Susannah Place Museum p69
Sydney Cove. On display are Sydney Jewish Museum p123
unearthed relics from that Side view of the veranda at Elizabeth Farm, Vaucluse House p138
building, some of which are near Parramatta

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