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Adult | $15
Concession | $12
Family | $38
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Children under 5 years | Free of charge
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From Friday 29 January 2021, Sydney Living Museums recommends that all visitors wear masks inside when visiting our museums, however in line with the latest public health advice wearing masks is not mandatory. Find out more including any exemptions via the NSW Government Health website.
Please check our property pages for current opening days and times. You can also discover our places, stories and collections online and across our social channels. Stay connected to be inspired and entertained.
Step into the dark side of Sydney’s past with a visit to the Water Police station and courts that once made up one of the city’s busiest legal hubs. Crooks and cops, thugs and judges, locals and drifters, the guilty and the innocent have all left their stories here. With its 1890s holding cells, offices, charge room and courts, the museum draws you into a world of crime, punishment and policing, from bushrangers, sly grog and razor gangs to forensics. A vast archive of crime scene photography and mug shots reveal more than a century of underworld Sydney.
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News from Justice & Police Museum
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Reflections on IdentityThursday 4 February 2021
Sydney Living Museums, with NSW State Archives, announce a bold, expansive and thought provoking program for 2021.
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Year in review: 2020Wednesday 3 February 2021
We hope you enjoy this snapshot of some of our favourite moments from 2020.
Culture Up LateFriday 11 December 2020
This summer Sydney Living Museums will join other major arts and cultural institutions for Culture Up Late, a NSW Government initiative aimed at revitalizing Sydney’s cultural life.
Museum of Sydney
An acquisitions renaissanceTuesday 23 February 2021
School holidays
Summer 2021: opening hoursMonday 7 December 2020
WW1: stories from our museums
Often poignant and sometimes heartbreaking, the stories reveal combatants, pacifists, patriotic fundraisers and anti-war activists, explore broader narratives of patriotism and expressions of jingoism, and touch on the aftermath of war and the memorialisation of those who enlisted.
