The Mint heritage works
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Scope of works
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Why now?
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Timeframe
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Milestones:
23 June 2024
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August 2024
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December 2024
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April 2025
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Conservation at The Mint
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Major conservation works completed on the Rum Hospital verandah
In the 2023–24 financial year the MHNSW Capital Works team completed detailed conservation works on the ‘Rum Hospital’ building at The Mint
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Rum Hospital verandah conservation update
Remediation works have seen four original columns spliced, 17 joists replaced, seven bays of balustrades repaired, gutters and downpipes remediated, and a new fascia, perimeter floorboards and soffit boards installed
Stories
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Museum stories
A rum deal
When Lachlan Macquarie began his term as governor of NSW in 1810, Sydney was in desperate need of a new hospital
What was the ‘Rum’ Hospital?
Between 1816 and 1848, the General Hospital on Sydney’s Macquarie Street, provided medical care for the colony’s convict workforce
Francis Greenway: the ‘future safety’ of the Rum Hospital buildings
When Sydney’s Rum Hospital was completed in 1816, the buildings were already showing signs of potential collapse, but newly-appointed Civil Architect Francis Greenway came to the rescue
After the Royal Mint
Between 1926 and 1997 almost 20 different government departments and law courts came and went from the Mint buildings
Museum stories
The changing face of the Mint
As photographers documented the evolving face of the Mint, they recorded changes to the site and streetscape
The Mint transformed
A few years ago, as you made your way around the lofty columned verandahs of the old Mint offices on Macquarie Street, you came across an extraordinary and hidden place