Liverpool Regional Museum

Preserving and promoting Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories

^{Dame Edna (1934 Humber Snipe) visits Liverpool Regional Museum}

Liverpool Regional Museum was opened on 3 June 1989 as part of Australia's Bicentennial celebrations.

The museum presents and collects items reflecting environmental, heritage and social themes within south-west Sydney. Whilst preserving and promoting Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories through collections, exhibitions and public programs.

Visitors can experience our permanent exhibition ‘RESONANCES: objects, lives and stories of Liverpool’ accompanied with a program of diverse changing exhibitions, including public programs that engage and inspire the community.

We are available to guide visitors through our exhibitions and assist with enquiries. Visitors can also research their family history from our resident Liverpool Genealogy Society.

To make a booking for your group or school email: liverpoolregionalmuseum@liverpool.nsw.gov.au

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

HANDLE WITH CARE

RESONANCES

FREE EXHIBITION
LIVERPOOL REGIONAL MUSEUM

HANDLE WITH CARE
LOOKING AFTER LIVERPOOL

07 April 2026 – 05 September 2026

Black and white photo of nurse with young child

_{IMAGE: Nurse and young patient at Liverpool Hospital c1970s, Liverpool City Council Heritage collection}

The act of caring has been ingrained within our communities for thousands of years evolving into grassroots organisations and Government institutions managed by the people who founded and ran them. Who were Liverpool’s original caregivers, what did they practice and where did they work.

Growing Pains
The South Western Sydney Local Health District cares for the health of a culturally diverse population exceeding 1 million people; now the largest and fastest-growing District in metropolitan Sydney.

Announced in 2018, the Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct is a decade-long redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital significantly boosting health services. As a global hub for innovation and medical research this major expansion provides an opportunity to reflect on the foundations of care in the district.

Handle with Care, Looking after Liverpool presents historical concepts of care developed within the Liverpool region focused on the people and organisations dedicated to delivering care to the community.

Handle With Care installation views 1

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Installation view
Detail of Sir Edward Deas Thomson, Colonial Secretary and President of the Benevolent Society of N.S.W.

Handle with Care Installation views 2

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Installation view – Liverpool District Hospital
Installation view – Volunteers and Vocation

Handle with Care installation views 3

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Installation view – The Iron Lung
Installation view – Science, Technology and Teaching

All images Michael Waite Photography

A series of related public programs will be presented at Liverpool Regional Museum during the exhibition.

On the Frontline Early healthcare from Nightingale nurses to infectious diseases
	Saturday 02 May 11am - 12:30pm	Lucy Osborn and the Making of Modern Nursing: Reform, Resistance, and Reputation
	Saturday 06 June 11am- 12.30 pm	Ten Plagues of Sydney: Quarantining Disease in the New Worlds
	Saturday 20 June 11am-12.30pm	Prince Henry Hospital: Guardians of Public Health, from Isolation to Innovation
Teaching Care The evolution of healthcare education
	Saturday 4 July 11am – 12.30 pm	From Caps to Computers: Nursing Education across Eras
	Saturday 18 July 11am- 12.30 pm	The Evolution of the Museum of Human Disease: Preserving the Past, Educating the Future
	Thursday 06 August 11am – 12.30 pm	Liverpool Asylum: Early Government Systems of Aged Care
	Saturday 15 August 11am – 12.30 pm	Resilience, Changes, and Challenges: A Nursing Journey from Chile to South Western Sydney

RESONANCES
OBJECTS, LIVES AND STORIES OF LIVERPOOL

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Objects shape who we are, the people we engage with, our attachment to place, our values and ideas.

Resonances takes you on a journey to discover Liverpool’s heritage through its collection of donated objects, unifying a diversity as an eclectic assembly of artefacts and oral histories.

We can only speculate about the personal meanings and significance an object holds for an individual or family; donors provide a trace of their story as a gift for future generations.

Resonances combines the collection within six themes: