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Virtual Excursion

Where Stories Live, History Comes Alive

Join us on Thursday 10 September for this free live virtual event as part of History Week 2026. From the Dreaming to digital technology – join us to hear how the stories we keep bring history to life. Where can you find stories about the past? Who keeps them? Who tells them? And how can they help us to understand the world today? The stories we keep are waiting to be discovered and shared

Miss Fox in the schoolroom delivering the silkworm lesson during Lessons from the Past at Rouse Hill Estate
Onsite

Life in the Past: A Schoolhouse and Farm Adventure at Rouse Hill Estate

Join us for a fun-filled adventure at Rouse Hill Estate, where kids will learn firsthand what daily life was like for children who attended school and lived on a farm in the late 19th century

Two students looking up at the Madjeri at the Museum of Sydney.
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The Water We Share: Past, Present and Future

Learn about traditional madjeri making with Gweagal clan leader Uncle Rod and how conservation works at Vaucluse House are preserving the estate’s waterways for the resident eels

Virtual Excursion

Reconciliation Through First Nations Languages

Join us for a free online learning event for Reconciliation Week 2026 to explore the theme of ‘All In’. This event is a collaboration between Museums of History NSW and the Parliament of NSW

Two people inside the Tank Stream
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Tank Stream – before and after 1788

Why did the First Fleet land at Sydney Cove in 1788?

At the southern paddock waterfall, Vaucluse House
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Waterway investigation

Use this resource to conduct your own investigation of a local waterway

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?

CPD (Bridget) talking to students about Gordon Syron painting, for Whose Place program at Museum of Sydney
Virtual Excursion

History Week Virtual Event: Marking Time – How Do We Remember First Contact?

How do different communities remember the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788? Explore ‘Marking Time’ this History Week in our free virtual live event, considering the perspectives on First Contact

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