The Mint

The Sydney Mint, located on Macquarie Street in the heart of Sydney, is the oldest public building in Sydney. The public building was built in 1811-1816 and is currently the headquarters of the New South Wales Old Building Trust. A part of the building is open to the public for free, showing the history of the public building and the stone pillars and steles left over from the old Greek architecture. The open area is very small, and you can finish it in less than half an hour.

This is one of the oldest and oldest buildings in Sydney, but it seems that unless you want to dine at the restaurant on the first floor or work for the quango that runs the history museum, the museum will be on site or have booked one of the multifunctional Visitors and tourists are not welcome to visit the hall, except to look at the building and read some history from the trivial information board in the back corridor. Come, walk around, or eat.

A passageway to visit is horizontally framed above the production workshop of the Mint. As long as the workshop is under construction, the visitors can overlook the workers in the workshop from the passageway, from design, mould opening, die casting, inspection, and barreling. The whole production process. The Mint also has its own store, which operates services for coin collectors, and mail-orders and sells notes, coins and commemorative gifts of various periods.

We walked from Hyde Park to the Sydney Opera House and passed by this mint accidentally. In fact, it is already a museum and restaurant. The whole building is very low-key, that is, one or two-story small building, which is not comparable to the one under the Shanghai Jiangning Road Bridge. It is written on the wall of the Mint, built in 1816, that it is the oldest public building in Sydney. You can go in and visit, but there is a time limit.

It’s a nice place, very quiet and big. You can see how they minted coins and introduced the manufacturing process of coins. From raw materials to coins, there are very good introductions and production processes for children to appreciate. Very good.