Stage 3
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
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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
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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?
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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
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The Gold Rush
How does this object relate to the Gold Rush and, if you struck lucky, what could a gold sovereign buy you in the 1850s?
Onsite
History Adventures at the Barracks
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!
Virtual Excursion
The Art of Place
Reconciliation Week will see our first free Live Event for 2024 and it will be streaming from at the Museum of Sydney, which exists on the site of First Government House, on Gadigal land
Virtual Excursion
Objects of Separation at the Hyde Park Barracks
Join us during Reconciliation Week for Objects of Separation: at the Hyde Park Barracks
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Troopers, Trackers, Bushrangers and their weapons
The three phases of the war against bushrangers