Vaucluse House

Bicornes, bonnets & boaters
There’s a variety of headwear across our collections ranging in date from early to late nineteenth century

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

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

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

From the collection: staff favourites
We invite staff to write about their favourite object from our collections

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

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