Sydney Living Museums

This place is free entry. Once you enter they will give you headset and device to see the transcript of the explanation. This headset is a must if you want to understand the history in each area.the explanation itself were not boring.it was quite interesting.

You can spend good 30-60 minutes in here, specially if you are keen with history.

Very good museum, entry is free as well as audio descriptions (only in English).

It is classified as a Museum but I honestly don't know if that is it. There is no type of information available or anyone to accompany you, there are some old stones that were the basis for the building and some meeting rooms with “historical” photographs. The place is made up of some corridors and stairs that make you question whether you are in the right place or whether it is actually part of a museum.

This review relates to an Sydney Living Museums event. We've been to a few now and recently went on the History Pub Tour around The Rocks (Sat 18th June). To be frank this was woeful. We were expecting a hell of a lot more for the price hit at $60 a ticket. The advertisement is extremely misleading! A number of issues. The mic/portable amp weren't checked prior to the tour. The lead and input needed to be cleaned, the lead much shorter (it was metres in length) and the amp crackled loudly and was inaudible for most of it as it either wasn't working through connection, was turned too low to hear anything or the presenter was talking too far from the mic to hear anything. Charles is reasonably knowledgeable but we did around 6 pubs and information on some was actually quite little which begs the question of why not include more pubs/locations? They could quite easily include a dozen+ pubs for this in the area. There wasn't even a handout detailing a street map, locations of pubs and brief info! It was all over in around an hour. Walking time equated for well over more than half of the time! We also thought we'd be going inside potentially all of the pubs available to see something of interest and/or be shown something but this only occurred at the last pub which obviously was the most interesting.not sure if they've asked others and been refused by the pubs but that would of made for a better experience and something they could clearly organise esp for the price. As would the inclusion of a beverage at the locations where it could be done. This clearly hasn't had the planning it should have had to make it better and a more engaging event. Some other Living Museums events have been good but this is just seriously pathetic. They have seriously misled and ripped off customers! Problems/issues: poorly planned, very few actual pubs for a 'pub tour', way over priced and you pay $60 to walk for half an hour! Strongly recommend NOT doing this! Formal complaint lodged for full refund if that gives you an idea!

Nice museum. Worth a look. They have aboriginal totem poles and the first settler ships model display and documents. Also, they have a cool wall display of items from around the world.