Animals
Lennie Gwyther
Lennie ‘the Legend’ Gwyther spent his childhood running around the foothills of Leongatha in country Victoria with his four younger siblings and his prize-winning pony, Ginger Mick
Zoo Stories
Discover the incredible true story behind the Museum of Sydney's exhibition How to Move a Zoo
Runaway Joe – a dog with many aliases
In the late 1940s, three swindlers targeted country greyhound races with a ‘ring-in’ scam that netted them a fortune and forced officials to reassess how they verified a dog’s identity
The story of how to move a zoo
In the early hours of Sunday, 24 September 1916, an elephant named Jessie walked out through the gates of the Zoological Gardens at Moore Park in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and began an extraordinary journey through the city
Jessie the elephant
More than any other zoo animal, Jessie the elephant captured the hearts of Sydneysiders, delighting visitors at Moore Park Zoo and then Taronga for more than 50 years
‘Here’s luck to the aniseed!’: The Sydney Hunt Club
Seen throughout Rouse Hill House are compelling reminders of how important horses were to the Rouse and Terry families
About How to Move a Zoo
During the summer of 2021–22 this exhibition showed how hundreds of animals journeyed across the city to their new home at Taronga Zoological Park in 1916
From the collection: Richard Browne watercolours
A Dublin-born convict artist, Richard Browne spent most of his seven-year sentence at the secondary penal settlement of Newcastle. In 1812–13 he was commissioned to make a series of drawings to illustrate a planned natural history publication