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Hyde Park Barracks

Sonic Spaces event Hyde Park Barracks
Various dates
Performance

Sonic Spaces

Sonic Spaces returns for 2025 with an exciting new series of music performances, held in one of the city’s most unique venues

Friday 7 February 6.30pm–7.30pm
Scottish Rifles outside Hyde Park Barracks / photographer Charles Bayliss
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New insights from an old photograph

A recent acquisition for the Caroline Simpson Library captures a rare view of the long-demolished southern range of the Hyde Park Barracks

An Gorta Mor, The Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine, southern wall, Hyde Park Barracks
Permanent display

Australian monument to the Great Irish Famine

The Australian monument to the Great Irish Famine is located on the southern wall of the Hyde Park Barracks

Wednesday 1 January
Immigration Barracks
Resource

Timeline: introduction to the site

Introduction part 1

Artist Jonathan Jones with the new installation 'Untitled (maraong manaouwi)' in the forecourt of Hyde Park Barracks.
Resource

Multiple points of view: introduction to the museum

Introduction part 2

Family visiting the Hyde Parks Barracks
Resource

Becoming a Convict: Caught, Tried and Sentenced

Chapter 1

A student examines the scale-model of St James being built as part of the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program at Hyde Park Barracks
Resource

Building Sydney: Convict Worksites

Chapter 2

Installation view of gallery, Expanding the Colony: Convict Impacts on Aboriginal Country, located on Level 3 of the main building of Hyde Park Barracks
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Expanding the Colony: Convict Impacts on Aboriginal Country

Chapter 3

Students examining the convict artefacts on Level 2 of the new Hyde Park Barracks experience on the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program
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Tightening the Grip: Life in the Convict System

Chapter 4