History

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

Students looking at trenches at Museum of Sydney for Whose Place program
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‘Marking Time’ Together- Make your own Time Capsule!

Taking photos, writing letters, losing objects: just like the sources we study from the past, we all ‘Mark Time’ every day! But how do these become important sources for studying the past?

The cover of the guidebook features a view of the estate by convict artist Joseph Lycett published in ‘Views in Australia’ in 1824.

Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta: a history and a guide

Exploring the history of the Macarthur family and with a room-by-room guide to the house as experienced by visitors, this guidebook was first published in 1984 to coincide with the opening of the museum

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 bone object
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Toys in the past

Let your Stage 1 students explore this 3D mystery object to find out more about games played by children and adults in the past

3d model of a block of terrace houses
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Susannah Place

Take a closer look at this 3D scan of Susannah Place, as shown in our Virtual Excursion ‘Solve It Using Sources’

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?