Welcome to Sydney Living Museums

At the Historic Houses Trust of NSW we have a new name but we're the same great organisation that looks after 12 of the state's most significant museums and houses, and shares the stories of Sydney's living past. Find out more about Sydney Living Museums

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One key. 12 museums. Many lifetimes.

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    • Elizabeth Bay House
    • Elizabeth Farm
    • Government House
    • Hyde Park Barracks Museum
    • Justice & Police Museum
    • Meroogal
    • Museum of Sydney
    • Rose Seidler House
    • Rouse Hill House & Farm
    • Susannah Place Museum
    • The Mint
    • Vaucluse House
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Events Calendar

Discover highlights

  • Christ Church trowel (detail), 1878. Rouse Hill House Collection. Photograph © Jenni Carter.

    Rouse family artefacts

    Type:
    Place: Rouse Hill House & Farm
    Theme: People; 19th century Sydney

  • The Cook and The Curator blog

    Type: Blog
    Place:
    Theme: People; Convict Sydney; 20th century Sydney; 19th century Sydney

  • Night-time Martin Place, Sydney Olympic streetscape displays, 17 August 2000. Photograph Loui Seselja, courtesy National Library of Australia

    Sydney Open presents Talks: Public Sydney

    Type: Article
    Place: The Mint
    Theme: Design; Architecture; 20th century Sydney; 21st century Sydney

  • An Australian-built DAP Bristol Beaufort VIII aircraft, serial no. A9-700, in flight over Sydney Harbour, near the Bridge, photographer unknown, c 1944 (detail). Australian War Memorial: VIC0957

    Victory in the Pacific: forum

    Type: Audio
    Place: Museum of Sydney
    Theme: Architecture; 20th century Sydney

  • The Disappearing. Courtesy The Red Room Company.

    The Disappearing: app

    Type:
    Place:
    Theme: People; Gardens & Landscape; 21st century Sydney

  • Mug shot of Herbert Ellis. Presumed Central Police Station, Sydney, ca.1920.  NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice & Police Museum, Historic Houses Trust.

    Fashionable felons

    Type: Article
    Place: Justice & Police Museum
    Theme: People; 20th century Sydney

  • Who's that girl?

    Type: Collection
    Place: Vaucluse House
    Theme: Art; 19th century Sydney

  • Convict arrow icon

    A Convict Story: for kids

    Type: For Kids
    Place: Hyde Park Barracks Museum
    Theme: Convict Sydney

  • Eastern façade of Government House, Sydney. Photo © Simon Anders, 2011.

    Government House: image galleries

    Type: Gallery
    Place: Government House
    Theme: Interiors; People; Architecture; Gardens & Landscape; Textiles

Visit

  • Elizabeth Bay House
  • Elizabeth Farm
  • Government House
  • Justice & Police Museum
  • Hyde Park Barracks Museum
  • Meroogal
  • Museum of Sydney
  • Rose Seidler House
  • Rouse Hill House & Farm
  • Susannah Place Museum
  • The Mint
  • Vaucluse House

Contact Us

Head Office, The Mint

10 Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000

T 02 8239 2288 F 02 8239 2299

E info@sydneylivingmuseums.com.au

Office hours: 9-5 Monday to Friday

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