A Widow's Mail

If you haven’t yet seen our WWI exhibition make sure you pop down to our museum in Mascot Library. There are many personal artifacts o...

L'Estrange Park and the boy who walked 6,000 miles

L'Estrange Park: corner of King and Sutherland streets, Mascot. Image: City of Botany Bay From the Sydney Morning Herald 9 June 193...

Private Hector Fraser Hicks

Alderman T.H.Hicks. Image: City of Botany Bay When Private Hector Fraser Hicks, from Mascot, embarked on the HMAT A7 Medic on 2 Novemb...

New Cranes at Port Botany

Our new exhibition Botany & the Bay has only just opened yet Botany's relationship to the Bay continues to change before our eyes. ...

Strange stories from Botany Bay

Have you ever seen an octopus holding a hand grenade? Back in 1948 that’s what local teenager, Donnie Smith came across when he was fishing ...

The lost art of handmade shoes

Today shoes are glued together, made in China and not built to last. This however was not always the case. In the past your shoes might h...

Hidden War Stories

Do you have a family member who served in WWI? How much do you know about their life? Here at the museum we have always been curious about A...

Mystery Medal - Can you help?

Do you have any idea what 'S & S Compt' stands for?  Unfortunately the medallion's current owner, Rob Marov of Dapto,  has ...