History Adventures at the Barracks
Vacation Care Program
Join us for a one-of-a-kind museum experience, where kids will discover what life was for the convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks in a day of fun-filled, hands-on activities!
The children will have to bring all their excitement, because there is much for them to do.
Love Token Making
Love tokens are handmade coins that represent the heartbreak of convicts being separated from family and friends. In this activity, children use small mallets and letter presses to make their own love tokens on a large disk, inspired by someone special in their lives.
Bricklaying
One of the main jobs that convicts staying at the barracks would have had to do was bricklaying. After being issued with convict shirts marked with the broad arrow, the group will be put to work in a brick laying gang, creating a room under the watchful eye of their overseer.
Archaeological Dig
Using brushes, sieves and spades, uncover artefacts from dig pits, just as archaeologists did at the Hyde Park Barracks.
Museum Tour and Barracks
Enter the Hyde Park Barracks and put yourselves in the footsteps of the convicts who walked these same halls 200 years ago. The groups will explore artefacts left behind by the barracks original inhabitants, and may even get a chance to rest inside the convict hammocks!
Hyde Park Barracks
Queens Square, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000- Wheelchair accessible
Cost (GST free)
From $282 for up to 20 students
See page for cost scale details
Duration
90 minutes
Session offered
Monday to Friday
During school holidays
Maximum students
80 per session
Supervision ratios
1 staff member required per 20 students
Supervisors/Staff Members are free. At least 1 Adult supervisor is required per 20 students
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