Australian Museum
The oldest museum in Australia, founded in the 1820s as the Colonial Museum and housed in a sandstone building facing Hyde Park. Its natural history and First Nations collections run from dinosaurs and minerals to Pacific cultures.
- Where
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -33.8743, 151.2130
Get the Australian Museum stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Australian Museum. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your New South Wales volume with your photos and a note.
Near Australian Museum
Hyde Park 0.2 km
The oldest public parkland in Australia, 16 hectares on the eastern edge of the city centre. An avenue of fig trees runs between the Archibald Fountain at the north end and the Art Deco Anzac Memorial at the south.
St Mary's Cathedral 0.4 km
The seat of Sydney's Catholic archbishop, a Gothic Revival church in honey-coloured sandstone facing Hyde Park. It is a minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady, Help of Christians, patroness of Australia.
Hyde Park Barracks 0.5 km
A brick compound on Macquarie Street built in 1817 to 1819 to house convict men and boys, designed by the convict architect Francis Greenway. It later served as an asylum and courts, and is now a museum of the convict era and part of a World Heritage listing.
Sydney Tower 0.6 km
A slim mast topped by a golden turret, the tallest structure in Sydney and one of the tallest observation towers in the Southern Hemisphere. From the observation deck the view runs from the harbour to the Blue Mountains on a clear day.
Queen Victoria Building 0.6 km
A Romanesque Revival market hall that fills a whole city block on George Street, built between 1893 and 1898 to designs by George McRae. Under its copper domes and stained glass it is now a shopping arcade, 190 metres long.
Art Gallery of New South Wales 0.7 km
Sydney's leading public gallery, founded in 1872 and set in The Domain behind a classical sandstone front. A second, modern building opened beside it in 2022, and the collection spans Australian, Aboriginal, Asian and European art.
Sea Life Sydney Aquarium 1.2 km
An aquarium on the eastern shore of Darling Harbour, opened in 1988, devoted to the creatures of Australia's own waters. It holds more than 700 species, and its glass tunnels take you under sharks, rays and a reef tank.
Darling Harbour 1.3 km
A harbour inlet on the western edge of the city centre, rebuilt for the bicentenary in 1988 as a pedestrian waterfront. Around its promenades sit the aquarium, the maritime museum, restaurants and the convention centre.
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Questions
Where is Australian Museum?
Australian Museum is in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Hyde Park (0.2 km), St Mary's Cathedral (0.4 km), Hyde Park Barracks (0.5 km).
How do I get the Australian Museum stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Australian Museum and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your New South Wales volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Australian Museum before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your New South Wales volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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