Stage 3

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

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

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

3D model of a stone object
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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?

Students laying in the hammocks at Hyde Park Barracks on the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program
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!

Indigenous artwork
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

Girl in smock and straw hat holds a basket of laundry
Virtual Excursion

Voices from the Past - History Week Live Event

What can we learn from the voices from the past? How were people’s lives different? What can we discover when we examine real objects that they used?