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A new project by Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, who has collaborated with four Sydney elders — Uncle Chicka, Aunty Esme, Aunty Sandra and Uncle Dennis — to tell a very personal story of Aboriginal Sydney.
Virtually explore the many intriguing, perplexing and playful volumes waiting to be read in your State Library.
Thousands of people travel now through Central Station every day, but how many know what once lay beneath it? Dead Central will take you on a journey back to 19th century Sydney, to rediscover a place you thought you knew.
Marking the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, this exhibition builds on the Library's historical collections with stories of resilience and achievement from communities throughout NSW.
An ever changing selection of fascinating items from the Library's extraordinary collection.
More than 300 original artworks from the Library’s unique collection of landscape and portrait paintings.
Sculpture busts, miniature portraits, ceramics, coins, medals, cutlery, teacups, typewriters, convict bricks and much more!
Grattan Institute: Creating an expert teacher career path to improve teaching
As the performance of Australian students is falling in international tests in reading, science and especially maths, we are failing to use our best teachers to improve teaching across all schools.
Robert Tickner will discuss his new memoir Ten Doors Down: the story of a federal minister’s remarkable reunion with his birth parents.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born on 17 December 1770. In 2020, the 250th anniversary of his birth, come and celebrate the great composer with the Australian String Quartet, in this special concert experience at the State Library of NSW.
Launch into Library Research: Family History Building Blocks
Family history librarians will show you how to get started and where to look for the key documents to start your journey.
Join a specialist panel as they discuss the old Devonshire street cemetery, a place lost to living memory which continues to spark the imagination and fascination of 21st century Sydneysiders.
Love and The Silent Silver Screen: Blackmail
Written and directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, Blackmail is not only a quintessential Hitchcock psychological thriller about murder and blackmail, but a superior example of silent cinema at its peak in the late 1920s.
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