A detailed description of the building can be found here. “Convict Sydney,” a must-see exhibition at the Hyde Park Barracks until December 2015, further exposes the lives of some of the ...

Rat infestations may have been a nightmare for convicts at Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks in the 1800s, but today historians are grateful for the rodents. Scuttering beneath the floorboards ...

Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 to house male convicts. The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th ...

UP until 1819 when the Hyde Park Barracks took in its first inmates Sydney’s convicts often slept out in tents or roughly made huts, in the open air, had to pay for lodgings or stayed in ...

convicts were moved to Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour and the former barracks were converted into the city's Female Immigration Depot. The Hyde Park Barracks Museum also served as a hostel for ...

Charles is the first convict I “meet” during ... and a robust spirit of survival. In the know Hyde Park Barracks is on Macquarie Street, Sydney; open Thursday-Sunday, 10am-5pm.

The unique convict-themed sleepover at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, including subsidised travel for rural and regional schools, will be a hallmark of Unlocking Heritage. Sydney Living Museums ...

When it reopens this month it will feature a new interactive tour that aims to bring to life the experience of convicts in colonial Sydney. The Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Beth Hise, head of ...

Designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, the barracks has housed nearly 100,000 convict prisoners, immigrant women, and even asylum inmates over its 200 year history. It's now a heritage ...

UP until 1819 when the Hyde Park Barracks took in its first inmates Sydney’s convicts often slept out in tents or roughly made huts, in the open air, had to pay for lodgings or stayed in ...

Designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, the barracks has housed nearly 100,000 ... Sign up to our newsletter to enjoy Sydney without spending a thing (as well as options when you're ...