The Hyde Park Barracks Museum was built in 1819, initially to house, clothe and feed convicts. Today this impressive World Heritage-listed brick building and the walled compound is a museum about itself.

In a new display at Hyde Park Barracks, visitors can lift the lid on the fascinating stories of individual women who passed through Sydney’s Immigration Depot, at the barracks between 1848 and 1886.

Hype Park Barracks Museum are always happy to try to accommodate individual visitors with specific needs into our regular guided tours, but we are best able to do that if you call ahead to let us know about any particular requirements you have.

Hype Park Barracks Museum tells vivid stories about what it was like to be a convict or to be an orphan shipped across the world to make a new life. You can lie down in a hammock, try on leg irons and convict clothes, find rats and the rubbish and treasures they pulled under the floor to make their nests, and hear stories about the people who have lived and worked here.

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