Home: convicts, migrants and First Peoples
About the program
During this thought-provoking program students will investigate the themes of displacement and resilience through the experiences of convicts, migrants, and Aboriginal peoples.
They will develop their knowledge about the far-reaching impacts of the convict system, and its impact on Aboriginal communities and Country. The experience of migration will also be explored through the stories of young female migrants who travelled to NSW, without their parents, in the 1850s.
Your students will:
- Explore the UNESCO World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks
- Work like historians, analysing evidence in documents, artworks and artefacts
- Spend significant amounts of time handling objects - both primary sources and reproductions
Key information
Location
Hyde Park Barracks
Queens Square, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000
Bookings +61 2 8239 2211
Cost (GST free)
From $282 for up to 20 students
Duration
90 minutes
Session offered
Monday to Friday
Maximum students
60 per session
Supervision ratios
The supervision ratio is 1:10 for primary groups and 1:15 for secondary groups. Teachers and parents attend free of charge at these ratios. One carer per student with special needs will be admitted free of charge
Additional visitor costs
Each additional visitor will be charged at the concession rate of $12
Complementary programs
Onsite
Garuwanga Gurad (stories that belong to Country)
During this program at Museum of Sydney, on the site of first Government House, students have a unique opportunity to explore links between Indigenous and European histories, cultures and perspectives in the expanding Sydney colony of the 1800
Onsite
Bailed up!
Students explore the impact of the gold rush on law and order in the colony of NSW, and of bushrangers on the Australian identity