Foundation Day 2025: City of Parramatta Heritage Collections

Cultural Collection | Display 1

Unearthing Parramatta: A One-Day Archaeological Display at PHIVE

Join us at PHIVE for a special Foundation Day 2025 event showcasing remarkable artefacts from the City of Parramatta Archaeology Collection. This interactive, one-day display reveals the city’s colonial past through ceramics, clay objects, and everyday items uncovered from beneath streets.

Discover how early residents used the region’s rich clay deposits to shape their world—from bricks and tiles to oil burners and pottery. Explore fragments of convict-made cups, decorated ceramics, and personal items that tell the story of a growing colony and its evolving way of life.

Come and connect with the quirky, fascinating layers of history hidden just below the foundations of our city.

Heritage Archives | Display 2

Emblems of Our Past: Celebrating Parramatta’s Civic Identity

Explore the story behind Parramatta’s official emblems from colonial seals to modern council crests, at the Foundation Day 2025 display at PHIVE. Alongside these symbols, view fascinating archival objects including stamps, postcards, photographs, and a vintage photo slide viewer.

Together, these items reveal the pride, identity, and evolving spirit of a city shaped by its people.
 

PHIVE sits on the lands and waters of the Burramattagal of the Dharug nation. We acknowledge Burramatta as a significant place of ceremony, story, and tradition. We pay our respects to Dharug Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging, and extend our respect to all First Nations people joining this program.