About Our Museum

                                                          
The central theme of the Sutherland Shire Museum is ‘Old but New’. Here we highlight objects and stories reflecting this old but new history of Sutherland Shire – described in 1929 as, ‘A sort of no-man’s land between Sydney and the Illawarra’.
Museum displays highlight include:

• Aboriginal life and art
• First contact - Captain Cook’s arrival in 1770, including Banks and botany
• The story of Bass and Flinders
• Early landholders in the district especially Thomas Holt
• The Holt-Sutherland Company  
• Farming 
• Industry 
• Essential services, including electricity, water, toilets, health
• The Coming of Suburbia
• Migrant stories 
• Surfing and water sports
• Science & research
• Murder & Mayhem
• Craft section including Clarice Nelson's samplers dated 1898.
• Environmental disasters 

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Our specialist research room contains a comprehensive database of suburb and general histories, books and artwork relevant to the Sutherland Shire.

Opening Hours

Tuesdays 10am-4pm &
Saturdays 9.30am-1pm, except on the third Saturday of the month when we'll be closing at 11.30am.

Museum closed Christmas, Easter and public holidays.

Entry is $5 per person.

Location

88 Venetia Street, Sylvania NSW
(on the corner of Holt Road, just down from Sylvania Heights Public School)

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