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Museum or gallery

Type - Museum or gallery
Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery
Army Museum of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Bray's Museum of Curios
Brislington
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum
Casula Powerhouse
Dixson Wing
Don Bank Museum
Hawkesbury Regional Museum
Hyde Park Barracks
Justice and Police Museum building
La Perouse Museum
Merryfield Hotel
Museum of Contemporary Art
Nicholson Museum
Reserve Bank of Australia Museum
Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre
Royal NSW Lancers' Memorial Museum
Sydney Tramway Museum
Trainworks
University Art Gallery
Watters Gallery
Woolloomooloo Gallery

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Museum or gallery

Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery

Art gallery of over 1000 square feet established within the department store in the 1910s. Regular exhibitions showcased the best of Australian and European art and artifacts.

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Army Museum of New South Wales

Museum housed in the original 25-cell District Military Prison of Victoria Barracks, which was constructed in 1847. The organisation collects preserves and interprets the history of British, NSW and Australian Armies in NSW from the First Fleet to the present day.

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

First purpose built gallery begun by Horbury Hunt and completed by Vernon to house the state collection The original sandstone facade remains though modification and new galleries continue to be added.

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Australian Museum

First public museum in Australia in a purpose built sandstone building which commands the eastern side of Hyde Park. It continues to exhibit and expand the knowledge of the cultural and natural history of Australia and the Pacific region.

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Australian National Maritime Museum

Maritime museum on the edge of Darling Harbour which was a transport hub and centre for maritime commerce from the colony's earliest days. It was designed by Philip Cox as part of the redevelopment of the area from 1984.

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Bray's Museum of Curios

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Private natural museum and associated business dealing in colonial, ethnographic and natural artefacts established by James Bray, initially in his home at 84 Forbes Street Woolloomooloo in 1884 and subsequently at 12 Queens Place (now Dalley Street) near Circular Quay in 1886.

Brislington

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Two storey Georgian dwelling constructed for ex-convict John Hodges using money won in a card game at the nearby Woolpack Inn. It now houses the Medical and Nursing museum.

Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum

Museum which records the history and staff of the former Parramatta Hospital.

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Casula Powerhouse

Powerhouse erected to supplement electricity production during winter and power shortages. In 1955 the 250 foot stack was erected, replacing four shorter chimneys.

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Dixson Wing

A special wing of the south side of the Mitchell Library built to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of Sir William Dixson.

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Don Bank Museum

A heritage-listed former residence and now house museum at 6 Napier Street, North Sydney. It was built from 1853 to 1858 for Edward Wollstonecraft. It is also known as St. Leonard's Cottage. The property is now owned by North Sydney Council.

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Hawkesbury Regional Museum

Regional museum that opened in 2008, occupying Howe House in Windsor.

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Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

Justice and Police Museum building

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Building on the corner of Phillip and Albert streets at Circular Quay comprising two 19th century courthouses and a former police station. Originally built in the 1850s to house the Water Police Court and Water Police Station, the complex has variously been used by several branches of the police service before conversion in the 1980s to the Police and Justice Museum, operated by Sydney Living Museums.

La Perouse Museum

Constructed as accomodation and cable station that connected Sydney with the world, it also served as a women's refuge from 1944 until converted to exhibition space in 1988.

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Merryfield Hotel

Victorian Classical building with elements of Romanesque Revival detail in Woolloomooloo, which was formerly a privately run hotel until the late 1960s. It was used as office space but since 2003, it was purchased by art collectors Elinor and Fred Wrobel. That same year, the Wrobels opened the property as the John Passmore Museum, which includes a rotating display of 270 works John Passmore bequeathed to the Wrobels.

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Museum of Contemporary Art

Office block constructed for the Maritime Services Board which was converted in 1991 to house the new Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Nicholson Museum

Australia's oldest university museum, located in the Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney, and home to the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere. It was founded following the donation by Sir Charles Nicholson of his private collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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Reserve Bank of Australia Museum

Museum that looks at the history of Australia’s banknotes and the work of the Reserve Bank. Open to the public and housed in the Reserve Bank of Australia building at 65 Martin Place.

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Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre

Museum of Australian naval memorabilia at Garden Island.

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Royal NSW Lancers' Memorial Museum

Two storey sandstone building which originally stood in Macquarie Street Parramatta and was variously used as a school, garrison quarters and RSL before being moved to its current site and dedicated a memorial museum.

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Sydney Tramway Museum

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Australia's largest tram museum which has been operating since 1950. Volunteer run, it is based in Loftus and operates over 3km of track including the old Royal National Park line.

Trainworks

Rail transport museum which displays locomotives, and passenger and freight rolling stock.

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University Art Gallery

Art gallery located inside the War Memorial Arch on the northern side of the Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney, opposite the Macleay Building on Science Road. It was completed at the end of 1958 and designed by Ingham Ashworth based on aspects of Leslie Wilkinson's original design. The gallery exhibits works from the University Art Collection, which began with the foundation of the university in 1850.

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Watters Gallery

Commercial art gallery in Darlinghurst.

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Woolloomooloo Gallery

Commercial art gallery established by curator and art collector, Fred Wrobel on Nicholson Street, Woolloomooloo.

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