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The Mitchell Library Reading Room will be closed to the public on Monday 29 April. To access collections and services on this day, please visit the Governor Marie Bashir Reading Room.

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UNESCO 6 Exhibition Stories about our UNESCO World Heritage collections, displayed together for the very first time.

Paintings from the Collection Exhibition More than 300 original artworks of landscape and portrait paintings on permanent public display.

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The five bridges

by Anni Turnbull

From the 1800s, a host of bridges were built over the bays and coves to the west of Sydney. Five became known as the ‘five bridges’: Gladesville Bridge, Fig Tree Bridge, Glebe Island Bridge, Iron Cove Bridge and Pyrmont Bridge.

Birds eye view of the Port of Sydney

Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific modernist

by Davina Jackson

Stylish and talented architect-designer Douglas Snelling introduced modern American living styles to aspirational Sydneysiders after the Second World War.

Photo of Snelling’s concept perspective for the Keith Smith House, Mosman (1955–1958), published on the cover of Architecture and Arts magazine, February 1956

From protest to party

by Anni Turnbull

The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary since the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which started as a gay rights protest parade.

The first Indigenous cricket tour of England

In 1868, 13 cricketers from Victoria's western districts sailed from Sydney to become the first Australian team to tour England.

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