Virtual Excursion
Virtual Excursion
A new home: female migrants at the Barracks
Learn about female Irish orphans who migrated to Australia in the 1800s and stayed at the Hyde Park Barracks
Virtual Excursion
Book Week Virtual Event: Pop-up Poetry
Join Museums of History NSW and Story Factory Digital for Book Week 2024 and learn how to create poems that add a little magic to the world
Virtual Excursion
Convict work at the Barracks
Learn about how convicts lived and worked at the Hyde Park Barracks in the early 19th century
Virtual Excursion
Cooking up the past
Discuss how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House
Virtual Excursion
First Contacts
Learn about first contacts between Aboriginal peoples and colonists that arrived as part of the First Fleet and aboard other ships in the early years of the colony of New South Wales
Virtual Excursion
Growing up in the past
Discuss what life was like for rural children in the early 1900s and learn about household chores and technology from the past
Virtual Excursion
History Week Virtual Event: Marking Time – How Do We Remember First Contact?
How do different communities remember the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788? Explore ‘Marking Time’ this History Week in our free virtual live event, considering the perspectives on First Contact
Virtual Excursion
Objects of Separation at the Hyde Park Barracks
Join us during Reconciliation Week for Objects of Separation: at the Hyde Park Barracks
Virtual Excursion
Reconciliation Week: First Contacts Virtual Event
Join us for our free online learning event for Reconciliation Week 2025. Your students will learn about first contacts between Aboriginal peoples and colonists that arrived as part of the First Fleet