Hyde Park Barracks - an impressive brick building, built by architect Francis Greenway exile in the years 1818-1819 to house convicted men and boys. Today the building barracks - it is a museum of international importance, and included in the list of national heritage of Australia and New South Wales. It is also listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as one of the 11 prominent places in Australia for prisoners - "an excellent example of a large-scale transport of exiles and the colonial expansion of European powers."

Built on the orders of prison labor Governor Lachlan McGuire, barracks - one of the most famous works of the architect Francis Greenway Australian, born in England. Until the closing of 1848, these top New South Wales Barracks convicts lived, worked on construction sites in and around Sydney. From 1848 to 1886 years, the building housed the Immigration Station for single women who immigrated to Australia in search of work. And for most of the 20th century - until 1979 - it housed the courts and government offices.

In 1981 Hyde Park Barracks had a serious repairs, after which the building was converted into a museum. Today you can actually see how the prisoners lived in the 19th century and the other inhabitants of the barracks. The museum has several permanent exhibitions telling about the feats of labor convicts and exiles on the Australian system of sending criminals to prison.