- Address: 1 William St, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia;
- Phone: +61 2 9320 6000;
- Website: http://australianmuseum.net.au/;
- Opening hours: daily from 9.30 to 17.00;
- Opening date: 1827;
- Entrance ticket: adult - $ 12, for children from 5 to 15 years - $ 6, children under 5 years free of charge
If you are fond of history, after arriving in Sydney, be sure to visit the distinctive Australian Museum, considered the oldest institution in the country where professionally engaged in the study of anthropology and natural history. Here, not only organize tours for tourists, but also conduct serious scientific research, and also develop special educational programs.
Exhibitions of the museum
For today in the museum of Sydney is collected about 18 million exhibits, representing a special cultural and historical value. All of them are distributed according to the departments of zoology, numismatics, anthropology, mineralogy, paleontology. There is also a special exhibition of body art. Some artifacts are shown during the children's excursions, so they can even be touched and tried in action.
An important place in the museum's collection is occupied by everyday objects and cultural monuments of the Torres Strait and Australia tribes, as well as inhabitants of various regions of Asia, Africa and America. Here you will get to know the life and historical past of the Aborigines of Vanuatu, Micronesia, Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea. On the Sydney coast, the gadigal tribe lived for several millennia before the arrival of representatives of the white race, and to this day many primitive paintings, tools, aboriginal sculptures have come down.
After examining the museum's expositions, you will learn much more about the flora and fauna of the country, as well as about modern history.
If you come to Sydney large company, the museum staff will be able to organize for you a special group excursion, and the entrance tickets are quite inexpensive. In addition, there are regularly held interactive exhibitions.
On the second floor of the museum you will find an exhibition dedicated to the colonial period of the city's history. Particular attention is paid to the exhibits of the 1840s: at that time the first official self-government bodies appeared in the country, and Australia became one of the main places of exile for convicts. The decoration of the third floor is a panorama from which one can get an idea of the external appearance of Sydney in the early 20th century. On other floors, panoramic views of the city, dating back to 1788, stretch along the walls of the building.
If you come with children, be sure to check out the exhibition of dinosaurs, which show 10 skeletons of natural prehistoric reptiles and 8 of their life-size mockups. The museum has a beautiful collection of postage stamps and coins.
Features of the museum building
Now most of the collections of the museum moved to a new modern building, but initially the institution was located in an old building of the XVIII-XIX centuries. In those days here was the residence of the governors of New South Wales - the House of Government. The older building itself is an architectural monument.
Not all the treasures of the museum collection are on public display: the part is stored in the storerooms and you can look at them only on special request.
At the entrance to the museum complex of tourists meets the sculpture "Edge of the Trees". This symbolic statue is dedicated to the first meeting of Europeans with indigenous Australians. It is made of wood, on which are engraved the names of the first settlers of this continent, as well as the names of some species of local plants in Latin and the language of local aborigines.
The walls of the building are decorated with an ornament resembling the outlines of the area where the Government House was erected at one time, and one of the sections of the wall is made of sandstone, from which the governor's residence was once built.
How to get to the museum?
Those who first arrived in the city will find it easier to find a museum, knowing that it is located on the corner of William Street and College Street in the central part of the city, next to St. Mary's Cathedral and Hyde Park . For those who love autotravels, it will be valuable to find information on three paid parking places not far from this institution. There is also a bicycle stand near the entrance.
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