Posts in the category: Museum of Sydney

Celebrating knowledge and sharing of tastes

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Detail view of 'Edge of the Trees' art installation, First Government House Place (forecourt), Museum of Sydney.

Detail view of 'Edge of the Trees' art installation, First Government House Place (forecourt), Museum of Sydney. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

From the edge of the trees the Gadigal people watched as the strangers of the First Fleet struggled ashore in 1788. This installation by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley symbolises that first encounter. Wander through trees embedded with materials and language evoking the layers of memory, people and place. 

Museum of Sydney, built on the site of first government house, is in part, a monument to the commemorate first contact between British colonisers and Sydney’s Indigenous Peoples. The Edge of the trees art installation on the museum’s forecourt and interpretive displays in the museums help relate Aboriginal Peoples’ part in Sydney’s story – past and present, and NAIDOC week celebrations in Sydney continue to celebrate each year. Sydney Living Museums is hosting a NAIDOC open day at Rouse Hill House and Farm this weekend. Continue reading →

Marching onwards

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View of Rouse Hill House

View across the carriage loop at Rouse Hill House. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Here at the Cook and the Curator we’re bidding a fond farewell to Eat Your History: a shared table exhibition which closed on Sunday after six fantastic months at the Museum of Sydney. We’re also gearing up for another busy series of posts, as we visit Rouse Hill House and Farm, welcome in Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese story and bake an Easter treat. Continue reading →

Discover some sneaky secrets

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The Cook and the Curator in the Eat your history exhibition.

The Cook and the Curator in the Eat your history exhibition. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Join us on Sunday March 9 for our final behind the scenes floor talk at Eat your history: a shared table at Museum of Sydney at 2pm. The Cook and the Curator will take you through the exhibition and reveal some of the quirkier elements of the displays. Continue reading →

The feast continues

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Burleigh-ware trade plate advertising willow pattern, c1935

Burleigh-ware trade plate advertising 'Willow-pattern' crockery, c1935. Private collection. Photo Scott Hill © Sydney Living Museums

Treat yourself to talks, tours, tastes and hands-on workshops

Now that we’ve all recovered from a month of festive feasting, February has something to offer every foodie. Continue reading →

From the fridge door

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Chocolate cake drawn by a visitor to the Eat your history: a shared table exhibition

Chocolate cake drawn by a visitor to the Eat your history: a shared table exhibition

If you’ve been down to see Eat your history: a shared table at the Museum of Sydney you’ll have seen all the comment cards stuck up with magnets on our virtual fridge door. Here are some of our favorites so far from our younger visitors – drawings, recipes and much-loved foods! It’s great to see such enthusiasm and creativity from the next generation of foodies! Continue reading →

A New Year picnic

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Detail of oil painting, A day's picnic on Clarke Island, Sydney Harbour, Montagu Scott, 1870.

A day’s picnic on Clark Island, Sydney Harbour (detail), Montagu Scott, 1870. State Library of New South Wales: ML3

While many Sydney-siders gather around the harbour for New Year’s eve celebrations, New Year’s Day was often spent in public celebration in colonial times in the form of a foreshore picnic. Montagu Scott’s extraordinarily detailed depiction of such an event gives a brilliant ‘snapshot’ of revelers and their antics in 1870. Continue reading →