Dahl’wah

A standalone space for self-guided hands-on activities and for quiet learning

Our vision is to share First Nations content and perspectives to wider audience groups, especially families, children and young people.

The space has four stations with iPads and audio where visitors can watch and listen to D’harawal Saltwater Knowledge Keeper, Shannon Foster providing a First Nation’s perspective of the interpretation within the space.

The programs and activations delivered in this space will be First Nations led and work closely with First Nations facilitators, artists, cultural knowledge holders and other experts. These creatives will deliver scheduled and drop-in workshops and other activities as well as self-guided activations which can be experienced by visitors at their own pace.

More about Dahl’wah from Shannon Foster

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Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000

Museum of Sydney

Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000
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First Nations exhibitions

The first three decades (decade 3), Coomaditchie artists and community members, 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 302cm x 213.5 cm. 
Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation
Now showing
Featured exhibition

Coomaditchie: The Art of Place

Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. These loving and lyrical artworks, which include paintings, ceramics and screen-prints, speak of life in and around the settlement of Coomaditchie, its history, ecology and local Dreaming stories

Saturday 30 March
Cast in cast out, Denis Golding, 2020, epoxy resin, iron oxides, concrete, acrylic, edition etching rag
Now showing
Featured display

Cast in cast out

An evocative artwork by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding

Saturday 16 March
Ngaya (I am)
Now showing
Featured exhibition

Ngaya (I am)

‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his video installation, a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW

Saturday 16 March