Becoming a Convict: Caught, Tried and Sentenced
Chapter 1
Explore the Barracks using the virtual tour below. When you start the tour, you will be directed to the beginning of the Barracks experience, inside the ticketing area. From here you can navigate to the first gallery, Becoming a Convict: Caught, Tried and Sentenced.
Explore this gallery via the virtual tour below or click here to open in a new window.
Instead of traditional written wall labels, the museum uses a story guide on an audio headset to tell the stories of the Hyde Park Barracks. Location technology and sensors activate the story guide based on where visitors are in the museum and what exhibit they are looking at.
The story guide connects visitors to the experiences of the men, women and children who lived at the Barracks through voiced by actors, and soundscapes.
The video clips below include sections of audio from the story guide. You can also listen to this audio ‘in situ’ as you explore the virtual tour.
Whose perspective is being shared in the northern range?
- The British Government
- First Nations people
- Convicts sent to Australia by boat
- Immigrant women
- Asylum women
- You
Why do you think it is important for visitors to understand this perspective before entering the main building?
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The Hyde Park Barracks is an important historical site. It has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of its significance to the convict History of Australia
