Hyde Park Barracks

This austere brick building on Macquarie Street was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway and completed in 1819 to house male convicts assigned to government labour in the colony. Later it served as an immigration depot and asylum for women before becoming a courts building. Now a museum and part of a World Heritage listing of Australian convict sites, it reconstructs the crowded hammock dormitories and displays artefacts recovered from beneath its floors.