Contributing to the cultural life of Australia

The University of Sydney has one of the largest and finest university collections of antiquities, art, ethnography and natural history in Australia.

Come and enjoy our very special museums and collections in the historic settings of the University of Sydney. The Macleay Museum, Nicholson Museum and University Art Gallery are open to the public and entry is free.

Exhibitions and events

• Lunchtime Art Tours

  

  Join us for free monthly tours of the University Art Gallery.

• Poesia Visiva: Italian Concrete & Visual Poetry of the 1960s & 1970s

  

  Throughout the sixties and seventies, Concrete and Visual Poetry were one of the most active and radical movements in the visual arts.

• Classical Fantasies

  

  The discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the early 1700s led to a dramatic change in the way people saw their world.

• Griffith Taylor: Global Geographer

  

  Not only foundation Professor of Geography at the University of Sydney, Griffith Taylor was a remarkable man whose career in Australia the USA and Canada encompassed Antarctic exploration, ethnography and nation planning.