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  Sydney (Australia) - MSN Encarta
Sydney is the seat of state government as the capital of New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populous and economically important state.
Sydney is located on Australia’s southeastern coast at Port Jackson, a large, sheltered, deep-water inlet of the Tasman Sea (part of the South Pacific Ocean).
The turbulent history of Sydney from 1788 to 1850, including the effects of European colonization on the local Aboriginal population, is the subject of multimedia exhibits at the Museum of Sydney (1995).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566879/Sydney_(Australia).html   (2688 words)

  
 Attractions in Sydney - Sydney Opera House & Sydney Harbour Bridge - Sydney By Travel Online
The Australian Museum claims to be one of the best six natural history museums in the world and has the largest and oldest collections of its type in Australia.
The Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, are possibly Sydney's best-known landmarks and international symbols.
Sydney's Chinatown is a bustling enclave of restaurants, shops and supermarkets on the southern fringe of the city area between George Street and Darling Harbour.
www.sydney.visitorsbureau.com.au /page5.html   (1941 words)

  
  National Museum of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The museum is located on Acton Peninsula in the suburb of Acton, next to the Australian National University.
The museum was officially created by Act of Parliament in 1980, but didn't have a permanent home until the opening of its current buildings in 2001.
The director of the museum, Dawn Casey, claimed in the press that she and her council were not aware of this symbolism when they approved the plan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Museum_of_Australia   (857 words)

  
 Sydney Tramway Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sydney Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
Besides an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and other Australian and world cities, the tramway museum includes two running lines radiating from the museum.
The second utilises a former railway branch line to penetrate 2 km into the Royal National Park that flanks Sydney's southern boundary.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Tramway_Museum   (130 words)

  
 The Sydney Museum Of Contemporary Art and Funding - Liam Dennis
This reached a climax mid-2000 when negotiations for the city of Sydney to take control of the MCA were undertaken with the University of Sydney, a key player in the fate of the building due to its 39 year lease on the structure.
It is important to identify the purpose of museums generally and then to spell out the intentions of the MCA individually, as it is against this yardstick one can determine the extent to which the MCA and indeed museums generally are compromised in their aims due to external pressures.
The presentation in an institution such as a museum, of a any culture is a vitally important source of identity for the people constituting that culture; hence the way in which it is constructed, the exertion of influence behind the display and the signs and images it conveys is of vital importance to cultural identification.
www.users.fl.net.au /~lyndenal/mca.htm   (3340 words)

  
 Sydney/City - Wikitravel
Sydney City is primarily commercial in nature (hence the Manhattan-like skyline of skyscrapers and towers), although it is presently attracting an increasing number of prestigious high-density residential buildings.
Sydney Botanical Gardens[17], a large park on the harbour foreshore and Domain, home to the popular Opera in the Domain, Jazz in the Domain, and Symphony in the Domain events in summer, as well as the Tropfest short film festival.
Sydney City is home to a large number of outstanding examples of Art Deco architecture [18], built at a time - during the 1920s and 1930s - when Sydney entered a new phase of confidence and investment in urban infrastructure.
wikitravel.org /en/Sydney/City   (2266 words)

  
 Sydney Tramway Museum trams, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The museum is easily accessible from the centre of Sydney by travelling by Waterfall line suburban train to Loftus.
The Museum is also accessible by road being on the corner of Pitt Street and Princes Highway, Loftus, approximately 25 km south of Sydney.
The museum is normally open to the public on Sundays and public holidays from 10 am to 5 pm and is also open on Wednesdays from 9.30 am untl 3.30 pm..
austtrams.tripod.com /nswpres/nswpres.htm   (940 words)

  
 Australia - New South Wales : Sydney
Sydney is often regarded as the main travel destination in New South Wales and even the whole of Australia.
Sydney's popular landmarks and tourist spots, such as the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, are already primary images of Australia in many people's mind.
The Sydney Aquarium is one of the largest aquariums in the world with over 5000 species of marine life displayed in their natural habitat.
www.marimari.com /content/australia/popular_places/new_south_wales/sydney/main.html   (719 words)

  
 Australia - New Zealand maritime museums - maritime museum websites
Maritime Museum of Tasmania: (Hobart) The Maritime Heritage of Tasmania is a rich tapestry that reaches into the lives of everyone on the islands.
The Museum is filled with historic photographs, informative text and many artifacts, from the time Lieutenant James Grant first sighted this area of coastline from the deck of H.M.S. Lady Nelson in December 1800 to the town's current prominence as Australia's Southern Rock Lobster Capital.
New Zealand National Maritime Museum: (Auckland) Opened to the public in August 1993 and proclaimed as a "new generation" museum with no precedent in New Zealand, the New Zealand National Maritime Museum is truly a very different kind of cultural institution.
www.maritimemuseums.net /aus-nz.html   (900 words)

  
 Sydney Jewish Museum - Sydney tours - Holocaust
This Sydney Museum has exhibitions on display that serve as a witness to the Holocaust and stand as a permanent memorial to the 6 million martyred Jews as well as millions of non-Jewish victims.
Being one of the most invaluable museums in Sydney, tours of the Holocaust exhibitions are highly informative for a diverse range of interest groups.
Sydney Jewish Museum tours in Sydney will fascinate visitors as much by the story itself, as by the way it is told.
globalise.com.au /customer-profiles/sydney-museums-jewish-museum.shtml   (489 words)

  
 electric minds | world wide jam | sydney
Sydney, like any large city, has lots of museums but the Museum of Sydney is easily the best, although the qualities that I admire drive others to distraction.
It is the only museum in Sydney to use digital technology with any intelligence and the only one that challenges the complacency of the Australian middle class.
The Museum's exhibits give equal weight to the stories of the Aboriginal and European inhabitants of Sydney, a strategy which - given the bias of conventional history - seems almost miraculous.
www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/wwj_sydney_1430.html   (1262 words)

  
 InterContinental Sydney Hotels - InterContinental Hotel Reservations Sydney, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Australia's oldest museum, this comprehensive institution, which devotes itself to natural history and anthropology, opened in 1827 and is housed in a neoclassical sandstone building.
The museum features displays on Australian aboriginal society and includes items from ancient and modern histories of the aboriginals (and the Pacific region), along with skeletons, mounted animals, and aboriginal art.
It's somehow appropriate that the Sydney Museum is located on the historical site of the city's first government house, since the museum's purpose is to document Sydney's colonial, indigenous, and cultural histories.
www.sydneyhotels.intercontinental.com /categoryDetail/17/26   (458 words)

  
 Sydney Architecture Images- Sydney Maritime Museum
The Lady Hopetoun and Port Jackson Marine Steam Museum, the forerunner of the Sydney Heritage Fleet, was founded in 1965 by a group of public-spirited individuals to preserve Sydney’s 1902 VIP steam yacht Lady Hopetoun.
The Fleet also operates three of the most historically significant vessels on Sydney Harbour: the 1902 steam tug Waratah, the 1902 VIP steam launch Lady Hopetoun and the 1903 schooner Boomerang.
The Sydney Heritage Fleet made significant contributions towards the establishment of the Australian National Maritime Museum which opened at Darling Harbour in 1991.
sydneyarchitecture.com /PYR/PYR06.htm   (658 words)

  
 Raids uncover thousands of stolen museum treasures - smh.com.au
No charges have yet been laid but a former museum worker is being questioned, and thousands of items have been returned to the museum.
They were stolen from the museum in Sydney's College Street between 1996 and 1998.
Despite the alarm being raised by senior museum staff in 1997, and police being called to investigate, the scale of the theft from the mammals collection - amounting to tens of thousands of exhibits - was not fully appreciated until late last year.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/19/1047749826911.html   (429 words)

  
 Experience: Sydney
The Museum was established in 1827 and is Australia's first museum, with unique and extensive collections of natural science and cultural artefacts.
Museum of Sydney - The Museum of Sydney is built on the site of the first Government House and showcases contemporary and colonial Sydney through exhibitions and interactive technologies.
Sydney Harbour - Sailing on Sydney Harbour is the perfect way to get a sense of the city and to take in the scope and beauty of the coastline and the beaches.
www.luxurytravelmagazine.com /store/pdetails4513.php   (1097 words)

  
 Museum of Sydney
The site itself is the reason for the museum's existence, for here from 1983 a ten-year archeological dig unearthed the foundations of the first Government House built by Governor Phillip in 1788 and home to eight subsequent governors of NSW before it was demolished in 1846.
The museum itself is built of honey-coloured sandstone blocks, using sandstone tooling representative of the earliest days of the colony right up to modern times - you can trace the stylistic development from bottom to top.
Back on level 1 a video screen extends up through all three levels, showing images of the bush, sea and sandstone Sydney as it was before the arrival of Europeans; elsewhere in the museum other exhibits, such as benches with inlays of spotted gum, are evocative of the bush.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/syd_museumofsydney.asp   (545 words)

  
 Sydney & Louisburg Railway Historical Society
In a thirty-six year period near the close of the century, 30 new mines were opened, including those in North Sydney and Glace Bay, with simultaneous construction of numerous small railroads connecting the collieries with the shipping ports.
Construction was begun on a railroad to connect the collieries with Louisbourg, and upon its completion in 1895 the Sydney and Louisburg Railway was one of the most modern lines in Canada.
During both World Wars the ports of Sydney and Louisbourg were staging areas for Atlantic convoys and the S and L was a vital link in the supply of fuel and steel manufacture.
fortress.uccb.ns.ca /historic/s_l.html   (1090 words)

  
 Fraser Suites Sydney, Sydney Hotels and Sydney Apartments
It illuminates Sydney’s beautiful skyline with an ingenious design application that maximises daylight in a fluid synthesis of light and space, in offering a truly unique experience for discerning travellers.
Sydney’s rich architectural heritage and natural beauty beckon with landmark attractions, such as St Andrew’s Cathedral, Hyde Park and Darling Harbour, which are a short stroll away.
At Fraser Suites Sydney, residents are also spoilt for choice with a seemingly endless range of shopping destinations and visitor attractions, from Queen Victoria Building, Chinatown, Cockle Bay, Maritime Museum, Sydney Aquarium to the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, all within easy walking distance.
sydney.frasershospitality.com   (278 words)

  
 Sydney Jewish Museum: citysearch
Horton is also the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her work as an artist is the result of her search for self-definition within the context of familial and collective memory.
A documentary film by Catherine Chauchat explores the contributions made to the Sydney Jewish Community by it's volunteer guides, and the important function of the Museum in educationg about the Holocaust.
Their fascinating story is told in a new exhibition, Crossroads: Shanghai and the Jews of China, opening at the Sydney Jewish Museum on October 17.
sydney.citysearch.com.au /E/V/SYDNE/0029/33/90/7.html   (618 words)

  
 Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum, Hampden Sydney, Virginia
The Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum of Hampden-Sydney College houses a changing exhibition of memorabilia illustrating the rich history of Hampden-Sydney, the last American college founded under the British crown.
Its first classes met in November 1775.The museum is a non-profit educational organization of Hamden-Sydney College that collects, preserves and interprets the history of the College, its staff, faculty, alumni and the community in which it exists.
Museum Info courtesy of Virginia Association of Museums.
www.museumsusa.org /museums/info/1162378   (235 words)

  
 Sydney Tramway Museum - 25/02/1992 - PRIV - NSW Parliament
The tramway museum proposes that the line be extended to run on to the existing CityRail line, cross the Princes Highway and run down to the Royal National Park station.
There is no doubt that the tramway museum has the capacity to take over the operation and maintenance of and run trams on the Royal National Park line.
Further down the coast the Sydney Tramway Museum, which has been built up over many years by dedicated people - a museum which at first had a lot of knockers - has grown into a significant tourist and recreational spot of historic importance to the people of Sutherland shire, Sydney and New South Wales.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19920225025   (912 words)

  
 : : Historic Houses Trust - Museum of Sydney : :
The Museum of Sydney is an imaginative museum offering the visitor a journey of discovery and wonder through Sydney 1788 and beyond.
The Museum of Sydney is built on the site of the earliest foundations of British colonisation in Australia.
In 1983, archaeologists unearthed the original footings of the house, which by a miracle of history, had lain preserved since it was demolished in 1846.
www.hht.net.au /museums/museum_of_sydney   (185 words)

  
 Sydney Attractions
The Mint, constructed between 1811-1816 as the southern wing of the Sydney Hospital, is one of the oldest extant buildings in central Sydney.
The Australian Museum is rated as one of the six best natural history museums in the world.
Situated strategically in the middle of Sydney Harbour, this fort was a key part of the 1800s defense network of Sydney.
www.sydney-australia.biz /attractions/syd-attractions.php   (509 words)

  
 attractions of sydney, tourist destination, places to see sydney, opera house, parks, museum, botanic gardens, beaches
Sydney has a lot to offer, with its Opera house, the harbour bridge the wonderland etc. Sydney has a number of places to visit.
Sydney Opera House, an architectural masterpiece and Australia's foremost tourist attraction, is one of the great performing arts centers of the world.
Royal Botanic Gardens are Sydney's finest gardens with groves of palm trees, duck ponds, a cactus garden, a restaurant, greenhouses, and acres of lawns.
www.planetgypsy.com /destinations/australia/nswales_sydney_attr.html   (489 words)

  
 Sydney - There's no place in the world like Sydney
Woven into Sydney's superb scenery and remarkable architecture is a history, culture and artistic expression that tells the fascinating story of Australia's growth into a confident, prosperous nation.
The Powerhouse Museum is a brilliantly conceived showcase of interactive science and culture for the whole family.
At the Museum of Sydney, Sydney's heritage and history is presented in an exciting, contemporary context.
uk.sydneyaustralia.com /arts.asp   (472 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.
The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
Museums of Lithuania (in English, French and German).
icom.museum /vlmp/world.html   (1076 words)

  
 Museum Victoria: Benefits
Museum Victoria collects and manages your personal information in a professional and responsible manner and in accordance with the principles of privacy law.
The information provided by you will only be used for Museum Victoria purposes, such as the administration of your membership, the provision of Museum Victoria goods and services, planning research and marketing of the Membership program and the goods and services of Museum Victoria.
Museum Victoria will not disclose, sell, distribute, share or otherwise pass on your personal information to any third party.
www.museum.vic.gov.au /mvmembers/benefits.asp   (423 words)

  
 Sydney Jewish Museum - Sydney tours - Holocaust
This Sydney Museum has exhibitions on display that serve as a witness to the Holocaust and stand as a permanent memorial to the 6 million martyred Jews as well as millions of non-Jewish victims.
This exceptional Sydney museum's exhibitions will provide visitors with the opportunity to learn history first hand from volunteer guides, most of which are Holocaust survivors.
Being one of the most invaluable museums in Sydney, tours of the Holocaust exhibitions are highly informative for a diverse range of interest groups.
www.globalise.com.au /customer-profiles/sydney-museums-jewish-museum.shtml   (489 words)

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