Sydney: 10 Things to Do

1. Circular Quay

The Museum of Contemporary Art is covered with an "electric canvas" during a media call one day before the start of the new Vivid Festival in Sydney May 25, 2009 Daniel Munoz / Reuters
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Begin here for a close-up gander at the great steel arc of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House's splendid sails. Here too, housed in a restored 1930s-designed building, is the Museum of Contemporary Art, tel: (61-2) 9245 2400, and the Customs House Library, tel: (61-2) 9242 8555. One block on, the Museum of Sydney, tel: (61-2) 9251 5988, is set behind a starkly beautiful art installation that marks initial contact between the British colonizers and the Cadigal people, the area's first Australians.

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