The Rocks

Auslan guided tour of MCA exhibition Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life

Train and get fit while exploring The Rocks. It's a win-win!

Grab your mates and come and try the fastest growing sport

Through intimate guided tours, we tell the stories of everyday families who helped shape Sydney.

Love basketball? Enter a social or corporate basketball team

Play your way to a better day, enter a social or corporate team

Enter a social or corporate futsal team in this regular competition in The Rocks.

Play for social and corporate teams, at lunchtime and after business hours

Creativity reimagined: early learning through art.

Strengthen and stretch your entire body

Come along and enjoy playing Pickleball at KGV with friends

Journey through the MCA with this activity trail designed for kids and their families.

First of its kind in a major Australian museum and is presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26.

The MCA’s 2025 Circular Quay Foyer Wall commission

Low intensity guided movement techniques to improve your balance, strength, coordination and movement

Interval training using both conditioning and strength tools

A dynamic display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.

Read, rest and imagine together

Gym and fitness activities

An annual exhibition profiling emerging Australian artists aged 35 years and under.

Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace commission

Have fun and make new friends playing soccer

History becomes opera in Wael Shawky’s globally acclaimed work ‘Drama 1882’.

A solo presentation of significant ceramic installations by Yasmin Smith.

A monumental new public sculpture in Circular Quay for the inaugural Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission

New workouts for every day of the week

The world famous candy-makers at Sticky Lollies host a free candy-making show every day

A fun racquet sport suitable for all ages

Keep active and maintain your fitness

For social and corporate teams, at lunchtime and after business hours

This Seniors Festival exercise safely while having fun, for beginners or new ballers

For all fitness levels

Join us for social badminton on Tuesday mornings

Have your children learn the skills of soccer in a fun and safe environment.

This fun racquet sport will improve your health and fitness while making new friends

Enjoy a 2-hour walk with a trained guide and see how heritage and contemporary architecture co-exist in harmony

A 45 minute, all body workout that will challenge you and leave you on a high

Quentin Bryce and Juliett Rieden in conversation with Elsa Atkin

Free for over 55s during Seniors Festival

Special wine-pairing dinner in collaboration with Small Forest Wines

Experience an intimate guided tour of the iconic heritage-listed Sydney Observatory.

Meet other local basketball players and have fun

Build strength and flexibility through this mind and body practice

Wear something green, down some Guinness and dance to Irish tunes in the home of Sydney's St Patrick's Day celebrations.

Get your heart rate up and arms pumping with this lunchtime boxing class

Get the paddy started with a free screening of 'Sing Street,' at the St Patrick's Day Outdoor Cinema.

Join us for a 45 minute class, no experience necessary

Come and try boxercise for free and get hooked during Senior's Festival

Sketch in the galleries after hours.

Explore all things ghostly as we visit Sydney's most haunted pubs.

MCA now opening late on Thursdays

Come and try Seniors Strength and Movement for FREE during Senior's Festival

Co-presented by the Power Institute and MCA Australia, as part of the Visual Research Program.

Explore the iconic Sydney Observatory with a tour designed for groups that include young children aged 6 and older.

Parade and free, family-friendly festival in The Rocks & Circular Quay to celebrate Irish culture

A series of short films taking you behind the works on display at the MCA Australia.

Five-course duck and pinot dinner in The Rocks, with shared plates and guided wine pairings.

A series of walking tours around Tallawoladah/The Rocks.

Art without Boundaries

Co-presented by the Power Institute and MCA Australia, as part of the Visual Research Program.

Hear from the curators of MCA's major summer exhibition

Gain insight into artworks ‘Ancient Feelings’ and ‘Bent Forms #1–#4’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Travel the world one dram at a time, a guided tasting of global whiskey with regional bites in our historic bar

Co-presented by the Power Institute and MCA Australia, as part of the Visual Research Program.

Explore the elegance of Japanese whisky with tastings and canapés in our storied, atmospheric underground chamber.

Journey through whiskey history with guided tastings that reveal how the spirit evolved across centuries.