Circular Quay from the Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art

On the top of the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay, there is a rooftop cafe. And art. 

William St, Darlinghurst

...and the Australian Museum, a tourist bus, and a box on a crane....

Dinosaur

Imagine my surprise when I looked up and confronted this fellow from the entranceway of the Australian Museum, College St, Sydney. It is Australia's oldest museum, founded in 1827 and specialises in natural history and anthropology. The beautiful sandstone building it is now in was opened in May 1857. Website.

Trade Wall

Inside the Museum of Sydney is this wall displaying goods available in Sydney shops and streets of the 1830s, as advertised in daily newspapers.

Ships and Subs (Transport IV)

The Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. Seen here are HMAS Vampire, a Daring class destroyer built in Sydney at Cockatoo Island- read more here; and HMAS Onslow, an Oberon Class submarine - read more here.

The Maritime Museum collection also includes a naval patrol boat, a replica of James Cook's Endeavour (seen here in my previous blog), and a racing yacht, tug boat, lightship, ship's lifeboat, a pearling lugger, a ketch, Indonesian trading ship and Vietnamese refugee boat, amongst others.

Cook + Phillip Park

Looking from the steps of St Mary's Cathedral towards the Australian Museum. Tomorrow, a glimpse of what's underneath the paving. This area is a favourite with skate boarders - see a previous photo here. The area is criticised for being stark, user un-friendly and in bad repair; a major upgrade is about to get underway, which will see an end to the skaters.

I think that's a bit of a shame unless an alternative is provided for them; kids, especially teenage boys seems to get a raw deal in urban areas. What do you think?

Sydney Bus and Truck Museum

The most famous ex-tramshed is the one shown if you click here. Anyone know what stands there now? The answer lies here.

The historical Tempe tramsheds are partly used these days as a bus depot, but the buildings also house the Sydney Bus and Truck Museum. The site includes a clickable list with photos of all their buses and trucks, for the bus-spotting anoraks amongst you!

Museum of Sydney

This installation is in front of the Museum of Sydney. Called Edge of the Trees, it is by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley. It is the first public artwork in Sydney to be a collaboration between a European and an Aboriginal Australian.

"From the edge of the trees the Cadigal people watched as the strangers of
the First Fleet struggled ashore in 1788. We can only imagine what their
thoughts would have been. This sculptural installation by artists Janet
Laurence and Fiona Foley symbolises that first encounter. Richly embedded with
materials and language, the sculpture evokes layers of memory, people and
place."

http://www.hht.net.au/collections/museum_of_sydney

You can walk among the massive pillars - some inscribed with the names and words of those who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 or Eora people, others with glass panels through which you can see human hair, ash, feathers or other organic matter suggesting the physical traces of the past - and listen to the haunting, evocative sounds of Eora speech.