Early philanthropists and collectors have provided artifacts, rare books, paintings and other memorabilia to the University of Sydney. These holdings have now grown to represent a significant part of Australia's cultural heritage.

Alumni are encouraged to visit the campus again and explore the many interesting collections at our MUSEUMS, or exhibitions at our GALLERIES. See below for details.

The SCA Gallery is located in the heart of the Sydney College of the Arts campus. It presents an annual program of exhibitions and events and is supported by two smaller gallery spaces and two foyer spaces. More ...

Current Exhibition

Tin Sheds Gallery and Art Workshops

The gallery hosts exhibitions across a wide variety of contemporary visual arts practices from individuals and groups, as well as community projects and curated exhibitions. More ...

University Art Collection

Founded in the 1860s, the University of Sydney Art Collection now holds more than 2,500 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Australian, Asian and European artists. More...

Current Exhibition

The Macleay Museum

The Macleay Museum had its origins in the collection of insects begun by Alexander Macleay in the late eighteenth century. It has developed into an extraordinary collection of natural history specimens, ethnographic artifacts, scientific instruments and historic photographs. More ...

Current Exhibition – On the inside: anatomy and learning

The Nicholson Museum contains the largest and most prestigious collection of antiquities in Australia. It is also the country's oldest university museum, and features masterpieces of ancient art and objects of daily life from Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, Rome, Cyprus and Mesopatamia. More ...

Current Exhibition

The University's Rare Book Library holds 185,000 books and manuscripts which are rare, valuable or fragile, including eighty medieval manuscripts, works by Galileo, Halley and Copernicus and an extensive collection of Australiana. More ...

Current Exhibition

Interactive Centre for Human Diseases (Pathology Museum) (restricted access)

The Interactive Centre for Human Diseases is centrally situated on the 5th Level, Room 580, Blackburn Building. It houses approximately 1600 pathological specimens on permanent display. The Centre originated in the Anderson Stuart Building in 1889 and was designated "The Museum of Normal and Morbid Anatomy".

The Centre's primary function lies in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. However visitors including, nurses in training, physiotherapy trainees, school students and various other interest groups, can attend by contacting the Curator for an appointment. More ...

The J.L. Shellshear Museum

The Shellshear Museum is a museum specialising in collections of human, other primate and marsupial skeletons. It also has a display of casts of a great range of hominids. Admission is FREE to anatomy students, bona fide researchers and scholars although some services attract a fee. More ...