Dinosaur

Imagine my surprise when I looked up and confronted this fellow from the entranceway of the Australian Museum, College St, Sydney. It is Australia's oldest museum, founded in 1827 and specialises in natural history and anthropology. The beautiful sandstone building it is now in was opened in May 1857. Website.

Trade Wall

Inside the Museum of Sydney is this wall displaying goods available in Sydney shops and streets of the 1830s, as advertised in daily newspapers.

Ships and Subs (Transport IV)

The Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. Seen here are HMAS Vampire, a Daring class destroyer built in Sydney at Cockatoo Island- read more here; and HMAS Onslow, an Oberon Class submarine - read more here.

The Maritime Museum collection also includes a naval patrol boat, a replica of James Cook's Endeavour (seen here in my previous blog), and a racing yacht, tug boat, lightship, ship's lifeboat, a pearling lugger, a ketch, Indonesian trading ship and Vietnamese refugee boat, amongst others.