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This is worth a quick visit if you're in the area, it's free, friendly and (assuming you like museums and/or old buildings) quite interesting
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Date of experience: December 2020
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The Rocks Discovery Museum is perhaps one of the jewels of the Rocks area of Sydney. It is a great museum like no other. It is housed in an old, but restored building in the Rocks. It has many items dating from the early days of the Sydney colony, but also from the time before that, telling of the long history of the area. Highly recommended.…
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Date of experience: March 2020
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Response from RocksD, Research & Curatorial Officer at The Rocks Discovery Museum
Responded 16 Nov 2020
Hi Dimitris, Thank you for your wonderful review, so glad your visit was enjoyable. :) Thank you for the recommendation and hope to see you visit again soon.
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Great little museum with interactive guides and takes you chronologically through Sydney's past. Tour guide was very interesting and enthusiastic. Located in a great location in the harbour too.
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Date of experience: March 2020
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The Rocks Discovery Museum is located in a small building in the Rocks area very close to the iconic Harbour Bridge. Not the easiest place to find unless you have a guide book or guide, it is nonetheless free to enter and one can spend an interesting 20-30 minutes here. The museum gives a nice introduction to the lives of the Aboriginal tribes, who originally inhabited this area. It displays their tools and weapons, gives interesting nuggets about their customs and their way of life. It also tells the story of the initial arrival of Western colonizers, who in due course, settled in this area. For a quick feel of the history of Australia itself (Sydney being the first settlement), it is worth a visit.…
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Date of experience: December 2019
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This is a very good little museum in the Rocks area of Sydney which covers the original inhabitants and early european settlers and the history of the Rocks area. The Rocks area of Sydney is a fabulous area to spend time in so it is well worth visiting this small museum which is free and accepts donations to learn something of the areas interesting history. Recommend visiting this museum.…
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Date of experience: March 2020
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