Our Museum 
 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:
  • 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.
​