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Virtual excursions

Our interactive virtual excursions connect your class live with a museum educator and focus on specific curriculum content, concepts and skills.

Thank you for a great experience. We thought it was about as close as you could come to the real thing. The variation of activities and mediums throughout the meeting kept the kids engaged the whole time.

Teacher - Pymble Public School

Stage 1

Virtual Excursion

Growing up in the past

Discuss what life was like for rural children in the early 1900s and learn about household chores and technology from the past

Eat Your History publication photography at Vaucluse House
Virtual Excursion

Cooking up the past

Discuss how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House

Stage 2

Virtual Excursion

First Contacts

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

Convict reenactors at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Virtual Excursion

Convict work at the Barracks

Learn about how convicts lived and worked at the Hyde Park Barracks in the early 19th century

Stage 3

Two girls dressed in costume in large dormitory style room.
Virtual Excursion

A new home: female migrants at the Barracks

Learn about female Irish orphans who migrated to Australia in the 1800s and stayed at the Hyde Park Barracks

Assorted fragments of cloth, bones, teeth, pipes, a rat, shells, rope and a coin found under the floor at Hyde Park Barracks during the Convict period
Virtual Excursion

Solve it using sources

This history skills based virtual excursion program is focused on analysis of source material to understand historical events and peoples

Virtual Excursion

The last bushranger

Students will investigate the significance and effect of the gold rush in New South Wales - including the rise and fall of bushranging

Stage 4

Assorted fragments of cloth, bones, teeth, pipes, a rat, shells, rope and a coin found under the floor at Hyde Park Barracks during the Convict period
Virtual Excursion

Solve it using sources

This history skills based virtual excursion program is focused on analysis of source material to understand historical events and peoples

May 2025

Zoe Kellam, Curriculum Program Deliverer, hosts a virtual excursion from the learning space at the Hyde Park Barracks. She sits in front of a monitor and laptop and is surrounded by historical objects.
Virtual Excursion

Reconciliation Week: First Contacts Virtual Event

Join us for our free online learning event for Reconciliation Week 2025. Your students will learn about first contacts between Aboriginal peoples and colonists that arrived as part of the First Fleet

Home-school sessions

Information on special sessions reserved for home-schooled students can be found in each programs.

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We offer immersive, curriculum-linked onsite excursions for Stages 1 to 6.

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