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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 2026
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