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Family | $38
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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.
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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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Update on COVID-19Monday 16 March 2020
International Women's Day
Women's stories, women's livesFriday 6 March 2020
School holidays
Summer 2019: school holiday opening hoursTuesday 27 November 2018
New online
Tales of the HarbourFriday 17 August 2018
Sydneysiders have always been a maritime people. We explore these enduring connections in four stories of people associated with Sydney Living Museums sites and key historic moments on this extraordinary harbour.
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‘Well have we loved’Monday 12 February 2018
Awaiting execution at Darlinghurst Gaol in 1880, bushranger Captain Moonlite wrote moving letters describing his feelings for fellow gang member Jim Nesbitt.
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.
