Museo de historia
Hyde Park Barracks
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Ubicación
Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW
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This Sydney landmark has housed convicts and orphans, as well as ill, impoverished women.
The World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks is one of the most significant convict sites in the world. A crossroads for tens of thousands of people, it played a central role in the world’s largest and longest-running system of convict transportation.
Former prison providing a glimpse into the lives of convicts & orphans who dwelt there in the 1800s.
From 1819 to 1848, the Hyde Park Barracks housed 15,000 male prisoners working in government gangs. Later it became a female immigration depot and a government asylum for infirm, destitute women. Explore the convict experience, lie in a convict hammock and discover the daily lives of other occupants at this popular landmark in the historic precinct of Macquarie Street.
From 1819 to 1848, the Hyde Park Barracks housed 15,000 male prisoners working in government gangs. Later it became a female immigration depot and a government asylum for infirm, destitute women. Explore the convict experience, lie in a convict hammock and discover the daily lives of other occupants…