Our museum is at 88 Venetia Street
Sylvania
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:
The Primary School curriculum is especially well catered for in the museum content and presentation.
A specialist research room contains a very comprehensive data base of suburb and general histories, books and artwork relevant to the Shire.
Sylvania
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
The Primary School curriculum is especially well catered for in the museum content and presentation.
A specialist research room contains a very comprehensive data base of suburb and general histories, books and artwork relevant to the Shire.
SUTHERLAND SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inc
email shirehistory@gmail.com
The Sutherland Shire Historical Society
Mindful of the past ..........
.......... Focused on the Future
email shirehistory@gmail.com
The Sutherland Shire Historical Society
Mindful of the past ..........
.......... Focused on the Future