Opened: February 2024
Curator: George Savoulis (Curator September 2023 – April 2024; Curatorial Director April 2024 – June 2025)

Where We Are is a permanent, inaugural exhibition that examines the site history of the former Darlinghurst Police Station and its changing role within Sydney. The exhibition traces the site from its significance as a meeting place for the Gadigal and Wangal peoples to its development as a centre of colonial authority, including its use as a courthouse, gaol, and police station.

Where We Are is a permanent, inaugural exhibition that examines the site history of the former Darlinghurst Police Station and its changing role within Sydney. The exhibition traces the site from its significance as a meeting place for the Gadigal and Wangal peoples to its development as a centre of colonial authority, including its use as a courthouse, gaol, and police station.

The exhibition documents the building’s role in enforcing laws that criminalised homosexuality, its association with organised crime in the surrounding red-light district, and its decommissioning in the late 1980s. It also records the site’s subsequent transition into a health facility.

Drawing on archival material, photographs and historical maps, Where We Are examines both the building’s past and its transformation into a site for queer history and interpretation. The exhibition situates the former police station within broader histories of law, power, protest, and LGBTQIA+ visibility in Sydney.