Our Museum
88 Venetia Street, Sylvania
88 Venetia Street, Sylvania
Museum Themes
Our central theme SSHS’s new Venetia Street museum is ‘Old but New’.
Here we highlight a selection of 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:
Opening hours are:
Saturday 9:00- 1:00pm
Tuesday 12:00 - 4:00pm
Thursday 9:30- 1:30 pm
Except Christmas and Easter.
Other times by appointment incl school groups, Probus, Rotary etc.
Entry $5.00pp children under 12 free
Our central theme SSHS’s new Venetia Street museum is ‘Old but New’.
Here we highlight a selection of 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:
- 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
- Local government, Sutherland Shire Council
- Environmental disasters
Opening hours are:
Saturday 9:00- 1:00pm
Tuesday 12:00 - 4:00pm
Thursday 9:30- 1:30 pm
Except Christmas and Easter.
Other times by appointment incl school groups, Probus, Rotary etc.
Entry $5.00pp children under 12 free