Discover what life was like for working class children growing up in the 1900s at Rouse Hill Estate.
Tag: History Week
3-11 September
Adelaide, Chenelle and Marianne, your hosts, take one smart kid and one adequate adult on a fact-finding mission through a unique museum topic.
A virtual experience of four significant memorials on Anzac Parade. Students investigate how symbolism is used to tell stories of service, sacrifice and national pride.
Explore the artworks along Reconciliation Place, discover that Reconciliation is a journey and celebrate milestone achievements and acts of Indigenous resilience.
Experience the story of Canberra. Learn why it became the federal site, assess the international competition entries, and see how the original design is maintained today.
Indigenous Rangers showcase their local scientific work, conservation activities, and the technologies used for research.
Discover what life was like for working class children growing up in the 1900s at Rouse Hill Estate.
Discover what life was like for working class children growing up in the 1900s at Rouse Hill Estate.
Connect live with a museum educator and explore how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House.
Connect live with a museum educator and learn about female Irish orphans who migrated to Australia in the 1800s and stayed at the Hyde Park Barracks.
This history skills based virtual excursion is focused on analysis of source material to understand historical events and peoples.
Connect live with a museum educator and learn about first contacts between Aboriginal peoples and colonists that arrived as part of the First Fleet and aboard other ships in the early years of the colony of New South Wales.
Connect live with a museum educator and learn about how convicts lived and worked at the Hyde Park Barracks in the early 19th century.