Customs House
Customs House is a heritage-listed museum space, visitor attraction, commercial building and performance space located at Circular Quay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Photo: Exnw78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours:
Monday—Friday: 8:00 AM—midnight
Saturday: 9:00 AM—midnight
Sunday: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM - Type: Community center
- Description: historic commonwealth heritage site in Sydney NSW
- Also known as: “Customs House, Sydney” and “Sydney Customs House (former)”
- Address: 31 Alfred Street, 2000
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darling Harbour and Museum of Sydney.
Darling Harbour
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.
Museum of Sydney
Museum
Photo: Elekhh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Sydney is a historical collection and exhibit, built on the ruins of the house of New South Wales' first Governor, Arthur Phillip, on the present-day corner of Phillip and Bridge Street, Sydney. Museum of Sydney is situated 180 metres south of Customs House.
Circular Quay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Philip Terry Graham, CC0.
Circular Quay railway station is a heritage-listed elevated railway station that is located on the City Circle line, serving the Circular Quay precinct of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sydney and The Rocks.
Sydney
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Sydney is the Harbour City, and is the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities.
The Rocks
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night. It is the historical precinct of central Sydney immediately to the north of the City centre on the western side of Sydney Cove, and where the First Fleet set up their first convict settlement.
City Centre
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
Customs House
- Categories: custom house, building, and government building
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.8622° or 33° 51′ 44″ southLongitude
151.21086° or 151° 12′ 39″ eastLevels
6Operator
City of SydneyOpen location code
4RRH46Q6+48OpenStreetMap ID
way 351374509OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=community_centreOpenStreetMap feature
building=governmentOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q5196499
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Customs House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “悉尼海关大楼”
- Chinese: “悉尼海關大樓”
- Hausa: “Gidan Kwastam, Sydney”
- Italian: “Palazzo della Dogana (Sydney)”
- Italian: “Palazzo della Dogana”
- Japanese: “旧シドニー税関”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Customs House Library and Jessie Street Gardens.
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