Best Historical Walks, Art Gallery Walks, Architecture and Design Tours
Randwick Architectural Walks
Randwick has many beautiful art-deco buildings from the 1920-30s. The Randwick City Council has put together an Art Deco Walk highlighting all the stunning so you don’t miss a beat!
Randwick Historical Walks
Randwick is a very important suburb of Sydney! The Dictionary of Sydney has curated an historical walk and added it to their Dictionary of Sydney Walks app. The app is free and easy to use and can be downloaded here for iPhone and here for Android. There is a lot of interesting information included and makes for a fun afternoon out.
The Randwick District Historical Society have put together a selection of Discovery Walks. All of these are available to download for free on their website here. The walks include historical aspects of the highlighted areas as well as loads of interesting information.
Best Sydney Art Gallery Walks
Whether you have long admired artists and their craft or perhaps would like to invest in something for your walls at home, or want to brush up on your art knowledge, then arm yourself with our local art gallery maps below and take off to meet the artist or just admire up close or from afar. Experience some long-established galleries and artists. Discover emerging creatives in the industry of art, design and space in the City. Most are just a short ride from our properties in Randwick.
Curate Your Own Sydney Art Walk
Most gallery opening times are Tuesdays to Saturdays/Sundays, use our maps below to plan your trip.
Sydney’s Art Month is held annually in March. During this time, galleries from our local City of Sydney precincts open up to an evening for art lovers, the curious and for those who are a bit more serious about their art and like to invest. Wine tasting and pop-up food trucks are situated along the routes to sustain you as you follow the art trail around the local neighbourhood. If it’s not March, curate your own art gallery walk! With the maps below, there are plenty of places to stop in between for snacks and drinks along the way.
Maps courtesy of Art Month Sydney (downloadable maps available from their website).
Sydney Architecture Walks
Join our friends at Sydney Architecture walks and learn all about the modern day of Sydney’s Architecture and local buildings – as well as its past. These tours are led by practising architects whose passion will take you behind the scenes of Sydney’s Architecture and Design. Enjoy the vivid storytelling of the intertwining network of political, economic, environmental and cultural forces that have formed our city.
BOOK A WALK HERE to join them to see some of Sydney’s best and most unique buildings. Some of these include Renzo Piano’s Aurora Place and Australia’s greenest tower, Utzon’s Sydney Opera House. Stroll around Sydney’s spectacular harbour edge, from Circular Quay, through The Rocks – up Observatory Hill and on to Walsh Bay. Why not Journey the pedestrian artery that’s been around for twenty thousand years; the ancient walking track from Circular Quay to the freshwater Tank Spring? Discover the transformation and regeneration of Ultimo including the famous Frank Gehry building or the area of Chippendale.
“Nominated as one of the world’s top five architecture tours by The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as one of the world’s top ten architecture tours by The Guardian UK and Winner of TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2012-2019.”
Sydney Historical Walks
Sydney Journey Walks have partnered with Sydney Lodges, for many years and they specialise in history, heritage and culture tours of Sydney. The guides are young, passionate historians who walk you around the streets, telling tales – the good and bad, from the early colony days through the 1920’s to today. Enjoy tours about convicts, tours of The Rocks and the sly-grog, razor gang tours of Darlinghurst and its past. You can choose from audio tours, guided tours or even bespoke private tours.
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