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The Parramatta Heritage & Visitors Information Centre is the first step to unraveling the richness and history that Parramatta embodies. Parramatta is the second region to witness colonial settlement in Australia and is naturally teeming in a history that dates back to the past centuries. It is this history that the Parramatta Heritage & Visitors Information Centre tries to narrate. Established in 1998, the centre serves an authentic guide for the ones seeking to explore the essence of colonial life in Australia. The Parramatta Heritage & Visitors Information Centre comprises of an information centre, library and research facilities, exhibition arenas, a seminar room, a theatre hall, and a shop. The permanent exhibition People & Place traces the life of the aboriginal communities, and the evolution of life with the advent of the first settlers. With interactive displays, the exhibition showcases a wide collection of artifacts used by the early settlers, and thus helps to reconstruct the culture and pattern of life of people in erstwhile Parramatta. The Centre is placed in a wonderful locale by the Parramatta River and the Lennox Bridge, and the Riverside Walk is an exciting journey through the artistic trends of the past years. With masterpieces from the native artist Jamie Eastwood, the Riverside Walk recounts the changing life of the Darug community as they lost their river and land to the new settlers. The Parramatta Heritage & Visitors Information Centre organizes special programs for school children. With its amenities for study and research, it holds up fragments from the past to conjure the fabric of social and cultural life of Parramatta which now thrives as a hub of Sydney’s business and cultural activities.
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