Vaucluse House

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Bicornes, bonnets & boaters

There’s a variety of headwear across our collections ranging in date from early to late nineteenth century

Child placing skittles on a flat surface on lawn in garden setting.
Onsite

Child's play

Students learn about what it was like to live at Vaucluse House for the wealthy family of William Charles and Sarah Wentworth, with their ten children and many servants

Window seat, c1840

Designed with intent: colonial vs modernist chairs

This selection of furniture juxtaposes the old with the new: early 19th-century colonial seating and modernist styles made over a hundred years later

Forage to Feast with Diego Bonetto and Marnee Fox, edible weeds basket
19 March, 10am
Past Event

Forage to feast at Vaucluse House

Join us for a seasonal, edible adventure with renowned forager and environmental educator Diego Bonetto and stylist and weed convert Marnee Fox

Silver stylised horse drawing a chariot.

From the collection: staff favourites

We invite staff to write about their favourite object from our collections

image of painting showing a dramatic panoramic view of harbour surrounded by natural bushland with Vaucluse estate in the foreground.

Not a lovelier site

‘There is not a lovelier site in the known world’, wrote the Sydney-born barrister and novelist John Lang about the Wentworth family’s estate of Vaucluse

Arm extended with hand holding red spiky flower head.
Plant Your History

Queen of the Night

The Queen of the Night is an epiphytic spineless cactus that originates from the rainforests of Central America.

Plant Your History

Sumptuous Cape Bulbs light up late summer gardens

Belladonna Lilies and Crinum Lilies are tough bulbs that never say die and can survive years of neglect