Anzac Memorial, War memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia.
The ANZAC Memorial is an Art Deco structure in Sydney featuring monumental figural reliefs and sculptures carved into its granite exterior walls sourced from Bathurst quarries. Artist Rayner Hoff created these sculptural elements that define the building's appearance.
Fundraising began in 1916 on the anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, with construction of the building starting in 1932. This timeline connects the memory of a key military moment to a lasting physical structure.
The name Anzac began as an acronym for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and was soon accepted as a word in its own right. The memorial is the focus of commemoration ceremonies on Anzac Day, 25 April, and Remembrance Day, and its fund raising began on 25 April 1916, the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
The memorial stands in Hyde Park South, close to Liverpool Street in the city centre, and is reached on foot from Museum and St James stations. Entry is free and the interior is step-free, with lift access to the lower exhibition level added in the 2018 expansion. Allow time to walk around the exterior reliefs before going inside.
The southern end of Hyde Park, where the memorial stands, is believed to have been a contest ground where Aboriginal warriors staged combative trials, watched by British colonists in the early days of the colony. The state's most monumental war memorial thus occupies a site of earlier indigenous combat.
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