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
Kaldor Public Art Projects is offering a unique internship opportunity within the Education and Public Programs department in our 50th anniversary year. Interested candidates from all disciplines, ages and abilities are welcome to apply.
When Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometres of Sydney’s coastline
with one million square feet of fabric, not only was it the largest artwork at that time in the world, but it was the first time an international artist
had create a major public artwork in Australia.