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Virtual Excursion

Beautiful waterways...and stinky sewers!

With more than 430 rivers and thousands of creeks, streams and wetlands – the State of NSW is connected by water

Students looking at trenches at Museum of Sydney for Whose Place program
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‘Marking Time’ Together- Make your own Time Capsule!

Taking photos, writing letters, losing objects: just like the sources we study from the past, we all ‘Mark Time’ every day! But how do these become important sources for studying the past?

CPD Damien Egan showing a bean seed to students wearing gardening gloves in the kitchen garden.
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How to grow broad beans

Some handy hints to help you look after your broad bean seed after your excursion to Vaucluse House

CPD (Bridget) talking to students about Gordon Syron painting, for Whose Place program at Museum of Sydney
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

Photo of a man holding an engraved coin
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

Woman using a washboard and laundry bucket in a courtyard
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Memorable learning experiences at Elizabeth Farm

At Museums of History NSW, we strive to create memorable and meaningful experiences for school students – bringing history to life in the places where it happened

Between the mountains and the sea, Lorraine Brown and Narelle Thomas, 2008. Photo © Bernie Fisher, 2022. Artworks © the artists
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Understanding the Art of Place

Discover how we can understand and connect to place through art, and consider how a place can mean different things to different people

Sarah Bunn and Peter White with Governor Darling's Commission
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Terra nullius, Perspectives, Reconciliation

What was terra nullius? How can you examine Australian history from Aboriginal perspectives? How does understanding past decisions, help Reconciliation?

Close up view of an animal skeleton
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Digging up the past

Use this animal skeleton, found at the site of First Government House, to develop students’ archaeological investigation skills and knowledge of animal biology