Surf City

Sydney's love affair with surfing is documented in this photographic exhibition.

Categories: surf city, beach culture, museum of sydney, sydney, photography, surf

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Museum of Sydney
Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW, 2000

T: 02 9251 5988
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Daily from 24 Sep 2011 until 18 Mar 2012, 9:30AM - 5PM


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Child/Concession - $5.00

Family - $20.00

Members - Free

Adult - $10.00

 
 

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The Surf City exhibition returns us to the beaches of the 1950s, 60s and 70s and shows how a scruffy bunch of kids on surfboards, hungry for social change, left an indelible mark on Sydney.

Boardriders, shapers, writers, cultural stirrers and everyday waxheads with attitude and sun-tanned bodies shook up the conservative city and created a new culture of freedom and hedonism.

Surfboards evolved from toothpicks to malibus and, eventually, to the revolutionary shortboards. Along the way, surfing merged seamlessly into mainstream Australian life.

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