Museum of Sydney

Designed by one of Sydney’s best-known architects, Richard Johnson of Denton Corker Marshall, this modern museum sits on one of Australia's most iconic and interesting sites. The Museum of Sydney is on the site of Australia’s first Government House, built in 1788 as a home and office for the colony’s Governor, Arthur Phillip. The museum forecourt, known as First Government House Place, preserves the remaining foundations of the house below, while above ground the extraordinary art installation Edge of the Trees marks the site of first contact between the British colonizers and the first Australians, the Cadigal people. The site of First Government House is on the National Heritage List.