All kinds of crimes could get you a job on Macquarie Street…Explore Australia’s convict history at the World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks. Learn about the forced transportation of convicts, their daily lives and how they built the colony. Wander the streets of 1820s Sydney on our giant map, try on a set of leg- irons, lie in a convict hammock, look for your relatives on the convict... Read moreAll kinds of crimes could get you a job on Macquarie Street…Explore Australia’s convict history at the World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks. Learn about the forced transportation of convicts, their daily lives and how they built the colony. Wander the streets of 1820s Sydney on our giant map, try on a set of leg- irons, lie in a convict hammock, look for your relatives on the convict database, and discover the intriguing stories of some of the 50,000 convicts who passed through the barracks doors between 1819 and 1848. This new exhibition explores the convict experience, from transportation to forging a new life in the colony of New South Wales. It reveals the extraordinary contribution convict workers made to the building of early Sydney. 2010 marks the 200th anniversary of Lachlan Macquarie's first year as governor of New South WalesMacquarie aspired to improve the fledgling penal colony and transform it into a thriving new society through a program of civic reform and ambitious public building.Walk across a giant map of Sydney in the early 1820s or lose yourself in a panoramic view of the bustling town at the close of Macquarie's era.Bring your kids for dress-ups and our convicts Kids Trail.Closed Good Friday and Christmas DayPlease phone 02 8239 2311 for details Collapse
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