Sydney's Forgotten Ancestor
Continuing the tradition of oral storytelling which has been present on country for generations, images of Sydney’s Garden Palace and the International Exhibition will not be displayed on the building’s original site throughout barrangal dyara (skin and bones). Visitors are asked to imagine Sydney’s forgotten ancestor, the vast palace which crowned the city’s skyline for just three years, raising its bones into our collective memory.
A selection of historic photographs of the Garden Palace and Sydney’s International Exhibition including the Ethnological Court, are displayed in the Palm
House. Designed by the Garden Palace’s Colonial Architect James Barnet in 1876, this small historic greenhouse is a surviving witness to the fire.
When
17 September - 3 October 2016
Where
The Palm House, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Admission
Free
See Also
At the Palm House
Garden volunteer guides bring to life the short but dramatic history of the extravagant 19th-century Garden Palace and the Sydney International Exhibition.
Weekends and Labour Day, 17 September - 3 October 2016, The Palm House
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Discover the Gallery’s historic connections with the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 and the Garden Palace.
30 August - 14 October 2016, Art Gallery of New South Wales
At the Powerhouse
See a display at the Powerhouse Museum that brings together Jonathan Jones’s work with a selection of objects from the Garden Palace.
17 September - 3 October 2016, The Powerhouse Museum
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one of Anri Sala’s earliest works, a video titled Intervista (Finding the Words), 1998, which Sala developed as an art student in Paris. 
This year all eyes are on Athens in the wake of Documenta14, a five yearly
exhibition of contemporary art that this year made its debut in Greece. Lately associated with Europe's financial crisis, Greece has emerged as a hub
of creative activity and progressive thought: fertile ground for artists to interrogate and discuss Europe's social and political future.