Coffee Customs features a selection of objects from both public collections and private collections that have never before been on public display. Highlights include memorabilia and photographs from Repins, a famous 1950s café that resided on Pitt Street; archival coffee advertisements produced in the 1940s-1960s; and the beautiful and atmospheric photographs of Max Dupain and Brian Bird. Birds images of the Lincoln Coffee Lounge and Café in Rowe St depict what was an important Bohemian meeting place for Sydneys artists and post-war modernist thinkers as well as the birthplace of the Sydney Push.