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Address:
Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney NSW 2006
Opening Hours:
10:00am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
12 noon-4:00pm Sunday
Closed Saturday and public holidays.
Contact:
Jude Philp
jude.philp@sydney.edu.au
macleay.museum@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 (2) 90365253
Fax: +61 (2) 93515646
Additional information:
The museum offers special school programs relevant to the curricula in History, Aboriginal Studies and Science. General group visits are available.
Located on the top floor of the Macleay Building in Science Road, adjacent to The Quadrangle.
Links:
Macleay Museum
University of Sydney
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Description:
The Macleay Museum is one of Sydney's oldest and most fascinating museums house in a superb 1880s brick and iron building, at The University of Sydney. The Museum presents stimulating and educational exhibitions based on its extensive and significant colections in natural history, ethnography, scientific instruments and historic photographs [Text from the leaflet].
Historic collection of zoology, anthropology, scientific instruments & photographs. Primarily a research collection, with strong exhibition potential. School and other groups welcome. Changing exhibitions. A collection of major importance, some sections being of international significance (insects, some of the vertebrate and ethnography collections.) (500,000 specimens, including insects; established 1888; 5 staff).
National significance: original Macleay vertebrate and ethnographic material; scientific instruments; photographs by Kerry, Park, Hetzer and the Burns Philp collection.
International significance: original Macleay entomological collection and ethnographic material
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