--- title: "Sydney: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours" canonical: "https://openvibe.tours/routes/rte_DTT6RKPQW3B5TQPB9ANTCDPDG8" updated: null --- # Sydney: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours HTML: [Sydney: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours](https://openvibe.tours/routes/rte_DTT6RKPQW3B5TQPB9ANTCDPDG8) Self-guided route · generated from Wikivoyage # Sydney: a self-guided walk Generated from Wikivoyage's See list for Sydney: 7 stops, about 1.4 km and 53 minutes on foot. Not a guided tour; check each place before you go. 7 stops · 1.4 km · about 53 min on foot · [Wikivoyage source](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · fetched 2026-11-07 02:08:53 UTC. Not a guided tour: check each place before you go. 7 stops on the map. [© OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), ODbL 1.0 1. ## Reserve Bank of Australia Museum Hosted by the Reserve Bank of Australia in its city headquarters, this museum displays Australian bank notes and currency from the earliest issues to the present day. Interesting but basic. Drop in for 15 min or so if you are passing by Martin Place. -33.86805, 151.21161 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.868055&mlon=151.211615#map=17/-33.868055/151.211615) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_BEQK907S600B1RTTMGNVWQCYF5) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 2. ## Hyde Park Barracks Built in 1818-1819. Constructed by convicts and housed by them, the Hyde Park Barracks provided housing for convicts working in government employment around Sydney from 1819 until its closure in 1848. Interior is restored with exhibits depicting the furnishings and life of the time. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. -33.86957, 151.21275 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.86957&mlon=151.21275#map=17/-33.86957/151.21275) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_VG7CV5DTBG4NKTQ2MKTPX1RG19) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 3. ## St. Mary's Cathedral The Catholic Sydney diocese's cathedral, built in 1868. -33.87119, 151.21318 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.871188&mlon=151.21318#map=17/-33.871188/151.21318) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_Q1QGEMTV6BZ83R7G3DGDXCACWY) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 4. ## The Domain In colonial times this land was the Governor’s buffer of privacy between his residence and the penal colony. Roads and paths were constructed through the Domain by 1831 to allow public access. Since that time it has remained a place for the people to breath and relax. The Domain surrounds the Royal Botanic Gardens. In times past has been a site of often quite colourful public oratory and site of public rallies and demonstrations. Home to the popular Opera in the Domain, Jazz in the Domain, and Symphony in the Domain events in summer, as well as the Tropfest short film festival. If attending an -33.86904, 151.21500 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.86904&mlon=151.215#map=17/-33.86904/151.215) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_VVQJFJZQG0FWG27SZHJ5ZZW0EM) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 5. ## The Art Gallery of New South Wales the leading museum of art in New South Wales and Sydney, and one of Australia's foremost cultural institutions. It holds significant collections of Australian art, and presents nearly forty exhibitions annually. British Victorian art, along with smaller holdings of Dutch, French and Italian painters of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a collection of modern British masters, European modernists and European classical art. The collection includes work by Reubens, Picasso, Van Gogh and many others. There is also an impressive collection of Asian, South East Asian, Australian Aboriginal and -33.86882, 151.21708 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.868824&mlon=151.217076#map=17/-33.868824/151.217076) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_8CK82T9TT4Q9VCSWTGFVSVBFGM) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 6. ## State Library of New South Wales Includes a large exhibition space with changing artistic, historical and cultural exhibits. The Mitchell Reading Room is a historical large open book-lined room, and worth a look inside. The reference library is a modern addition, and really only of interest for research. The library collection includes a copy of every volume published in New South Wales, and many rare texts. There is a cafe on the ground floor near the entrance to the reference library and the bookshop. -33.86609, 151.21328 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.866093&mlon=151.213284#map=17/-33.866093/151.213284) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_GX1KPV6JVP3BE367YQ1NNAVK46) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 7. ## Trim the Cat A bronze statue of Trim, the cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. -33.86634, 151.21275 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.866341&mlon=151.212754#map=17/-33.866341/151.212754) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney) · [place page](/place/plc_GX1KPV6JVP3BE367YQ1NNAVK46) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. ## Use this route [Sign in](/auth/login?next=%2Froutes%2Frte_DTT6RKPQW3B5TQPB9ANTCDPDG8) to add this route to a trip. Notes and the ordering come from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0; coordinates and map data from OpenStreetMap, ODbL. The route drawing is generated, not a guide's promise.