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Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm, Fri 10am-2pm, Sun 11am-5pm; $7. Kings Cross CityRail. The Sydney Jewish Museum at 148 Darlinghurst Rd, is housed in the old Maccabean Hall, which has been a Jewish meeting point for over seventy years. Sixteen Jews were among the convicts who arrived with the First Fleet, and the high-tech, interactive museum explores over two hundred years of Australian Jewish experience. An introductory fifteen-minute film discusses anti-semitism through the ages, and the Holocaust is covered in harrowing detail with Australian survivors' videotaped testimony. You can pick up the pamphlet Guide to Jewish Sydney from the museum; there's a kosher cafe on site.
You might also like to see the finely wrought Great Synagogue in the city centre, consecrated in 1878; it faces the northern half of Hyde Park at 187 Elizabeth St (free tours noon Tues & Thurs; Town Hall CityRail ).
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