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2016 STAGES 4, 5 & 6

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JuSTICE & POLICE MuSEuM MErooGAl

THE MINTmuSeum of Sydney on the site of first Government House

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The Historic Houses Trust of nSW, incorporating Sydney living museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections in nSW. it is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the nSW Government.

The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing but may be subject to change.

Cover image: Student at the history Extension Seminar day, November 2014. Photo © James horan

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We’ll send you our monthly eNews with the latest information about our events, education programs and more.

PLuS, you’ll receive a FREE double pass to visit any of our 12 museums and historic houses.

Head on pHoto festival aT THe muSeum oF Sydney

30 april – June 2016

The head on Portrait Prize is one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed photographic portrait competitions. in 2016 the exhibition will feature the finalists of the head on Student Prize, which showcases amazing photography by Australian school students.

Sydney living museums is pleased to present this photography exhibition in partnership with the Head on photo Festival.

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History Excursions

2016 STageS 4,5 & 6

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arcHaeologY in tHe rocks 2016Full-day program March 2016

available for two weeks only: week 1 Monday 14 – Thursday 17 March 2016 week 2 Monday 21 – Thursday 24 March 2016each year Susannah place museum, Sydney learning adventures and The Big dig collaborate to offer a full day of history activities in The rocks.

during the program, students will

• Hearaprofessionalarchaeologistdiscuss their latest work in the field

• ExploreSusannah Place museum (built in 1844)

• VisitParbury ruins, an archaeological site where the foundations of a cottage built between 1815 and 1823 are conserved beneath a modern building

• Tour The Big Dig archaeological site and engage in a hands-on analysis of some of its artefacts

• VisitThe rocks Discovery museum.

Details� $25 per student Full day (9.15am–2.30pm) 80 students

For bookings contact Sydney learning adventures 02 9240 8552 www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sla

See page 12 for a two-hour archaeology in The rocks program available year-round at Susannah place museum.

welcome our museums, historic houses and gardens are at the heart of every school excursion we offer. With Sydney living museums your students will discover past lives, events and stories in the places where they actually unfolded.

We provide History programs for secondary school students that cover a range of topics, outcomes and cross-curriculum priorities from the nSW Syllabus for the australian curriculum: History k-10 including:

• Howhistoriansandarchaeologistsinvestigate history;

• Theexperiencesofconvictsandfreesettlersarriving in the colony in the 19th century and

• ThenatureofBritishcolonisationofAustralia.

all our programs are led by highly trained staff, and we involve students in the analysis of primary and secondary sources and use of evidence to develop informed responses to inquiry questions.

at Sydney living museums we are committed to ensuring that students who visit our museums are active participants in historical inquiry.

every year over 10,000 high school students participate in our programs, and we look forward to welcoming you and your students in 2016.

mark Goggin executive Director

imageS (left to right): Students examine artefacts. Photo © Alfonso calero, courtesy of Sydney harbour Foreshore Authority; students examine artefacts at history Extension Extension Seminar day, November 2015. Photo © James horan

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Also on offerSydney Living Museums also offer programs for Commerce, Legal Studies and Food Technology students.

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Investigating HistoryStudents analyse and evaluate a range of primary and secondary sources, and reflect on the perspectives and experiences of some of the people who lived at the Hyde park Barracks, to develop their appreciation of history as a study of human experience. They explore and discuss many of the museum’s displays, examine bias in historical artworks and learn about the practice of historical archaeology.

Hyde Park BarrackS muSeum monday to Friday cost: $180 for up to 20 students

(see website for details) duration: 1 hour maximum: 80 students

imageS (left to right): hyde Park barracks Museum. Photo © douglas riley; Sydney living Musuems curator Fiona Starr inspects artefacts at the hyde Park barracks Museum. Photo © Scott Finneran; artefacts from the hyde Park barracks Museum Archaeology collection. Photo © Jamie North

Archaeology UnderfootDepth stuDy 1Students apply the processes and methods of the historian and the archaeologist as they investigate the layered history of the Hyde park Barracks. They research pictorial and written sources and examine archaeological artefacts to complete an historical inquiry into the lives of different groups of people who lived at the barracks.

during a simulated archaeological dig, students work in small groups to excavate an artefact, then categorise, weigh, measure, sketch and interpret it, to help them better understand the different approaches to historical investigation taken by archaeologists and historians.


(see website for details) duration: 1 hour 30 minutes maximum: 60 students

The hyde Park barracks is one of 11 Australian convict Sites on the uNESco World heritage list. With the end of transportation, the building became a female immigration depot, first housing irish orphan girls escaping the famine in ireland, and later also housing aged and destitute women as an asylum.

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Working as an ArchaeologistDepth stuDy 1: iNvestigatiNg the aNcieNt past

During this one-hour program, your students will explore the role of the archaeologist and how an archaeologist investigates history through an examination of the digs conducted at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum and key artefacts that were uncovered there.

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Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House

A modern museum built over and around the remains of Australia’s first Government house, the Museum of Sydney celebrates the people and events that have shaped this city. in 1788 Governor Phillip chose this site for his official residence. it quickly became the centre of the colony’s administrative and social life, and an important focus of first contact between the Gadigal people and the colonisers.

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Contact and ColonisationDepth stuDies 1 & 6, topic 6DStudents conduct an historical investigation into the process and impact of the British colonisation of australia, examining sources and perspectives. They practise historical archaeology, analysing a range of archival sources, handling artefacts from the archaeological collection and using them to answer inquiry questions.

Students also explore the way the museum interprets contact history through artworks, recreations and artefacts. in the Gadigal place gallery, students use primary and secondary sources to understand the different ways that aboriginal and non aboriginal people experience contact and assess how the lives of individual aboriginal people were affected by contact with the colonisers.

muSeum of Sydney on the site of first Government House

monday to Friday cost: $180 for up to 20 students


imageS (left to right): Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House. Photo © douglas riley; students inspect the exhibits at the Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House. Photo © Stuart Miller

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The Pyjama Girl Murder: A Case StudyHISTORY ELECTIvEStudents are asked to investigate, as historians, the infamous murder of linda agostini, known as the ‘pyjama Girl’, by examining evidence from various primary and secondary sources. They watch a 1939 film and evaluate its reliability as a source for their inquiries, and discuss perspectives presented by the media of the time. Students explore, examine and evaluate artefacts and documents relating to the case, including forensic evidence found during the criminal investigation.

To conclude, students take part in a re-creation in the museum’s courtroom of the 1944 murder trial of antonio agostini, and draw their own conclusions about the surprising legal outcome.

JuSTice & Police muSeum monday to Friday cost: $180 for up to 20 students


The Justice & Police Museum at circular Quay comprises the former Water Police station and courts, which once made up one of Sydney’s busiest legal hubs. With its 1890s holding cells, offices, charge room, courts and vast archive, the museum reveals over a century of law and order in Sydney.

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(see website for details) duration: 1 hour maximum: 80 students

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CLoCkwiSe (from top left): linda Agostini on coogee beach, Sydney, and evidence used in the trial of Antonio Agostini. Sydney living Museums; clay tobacco pipe recovered from beneath the floorboards of the hyde Park barracks Museum. Photo © Jamie North; objects and fragments from archaeological display at the hyde Park barracks Museum. Photo © Nicholas Watt

Modern Sydney is built on convict foundations – on convict labour, convict skills and convict stories. in June 1819 the hyde Park barracks opened to house convict men and boys working in government gangs, and over the next three decades as many as 50,000 convicts passed through its gates.


‘Perish or Prosper’ at Elizabeth FarmdEPTH STudY 1, TOPIC 16Students learn about the experiences of free settlers in australia through the stories of John and elizabeth macarthur and their home elizabeth Farm. during a tour of the house, students examine archaeological and historical evidence to build their understanding of the macarthurs’ dramatic rise in fortune and social status between 1793 and 1828. The students draw on evidence from elizabeth’s diaries and letters, which detail her experiences of leaving england, journeying to new South Wales and settling into her new surroundings. a stroll through the pleasure garden engages students’ senses and helps them appreciate the prosperous lifestyle so triumphantly achieved by these ambitious colonists.

elizaBeTH farm monday to Friday cost: $180 for up to 20 students


‘Perish or Prosper’ at Hyde Park Barracks Museum dEPTH STudY 1, TOPIC 16Students analyse a range of sources about the experiences of male convicts and assisted female immigrants during the first half of the 19th century, identifying the different perspectives of these groups.

Students focus on the experience of a particular convict and use primary sources to investigate his experiences of leaving Britain, voyaging to new South Wales and adjusting to a new homeland. They also examine archaeological artefacts and archival records to answer inquiry questions about the young orphan girls, survivors of the Great irish Famine, who arrived in nSW as assisted immigrants and were housed at the barracks after 1848.


(see website for more details) duration: 1 hour 30 minutes maximum: 60 students

‘In my last letter I informed you, my dear Mother, of my husband’s exchange into a corps destined for New South Wales, from which we have every reasonable expectation of reaping the most material advantages.’Extract from a letter from Elizabeth Macarthur to her mother, October 8, 1789.

‘I am confined within these walls on your account and I want to ask, Why did you charge me with ‘robbing’ you and do your best to send me to the gallows or … tear me from my friends and my native country.’Extract from a letter written by convict Robert Mason, January 27, 1831.

Elizabeth Farmbuilt for the young military couple John and Elizabeth Macarthur and their growing family, Elizabeth Farm has witnessed major events in the growth of the colony, from the toppling of a governor and convict rebellion to the birth of the Australian wool industry.

The World heritage-listed hyde Park barracks is one of the most significant convict Sites in the world. As a crossroads for tens of thousands of people, it played a central role in the world’s longest running system of convict transportation.


Perish or Prosper at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum and Elizabeth Farm are designed as complementary programs. The Hyde Park Barracks Museum program focuses on the experiences of people pushed here by crime and circumstance. The Elizabeth Farm program investigates the experiences of a family who were pulled to NSW by the opportunities of a new life in the infant colony.

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imageS (left to right): Quill, ink pot and writing paper on a table at Elizabeth Farm. Photo © Stuart Miller / hayley richardson; hammocks at the hyde Park barracks Museum. Photo © Nicholas Watt

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The November 2016 date and booking information will be announced in October 2016.

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Archaeology in The RocksTwO-HOuR PROgRAM AvAILABLE YEAR-ROuNdANCIENT HISTORY (PRELIMINARY COuRSE)While visiting the conserved interiors of Susannah place museum, students learn about historical archaeology and how combining archival sources with research into artefacts can develop a richer understanding of the past.Students examine a 19th-century artefact, weighing, measuring, classifying, describing and drawing it. They are then led on a walk through The rocks to parbury ruins, an archaeological site where the foundations of a cottage built between 1815 and 1823 are conserved beneath a modern building. en route, students visit the ruins of a tiny house and learn what the historical record can tell us about its extraordinary social and political context.

SuSannaH Place muSeum Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday cost: $180 for up to 15 students

(see website for details) duration: 2 hours maximum: 35 students

imageS (left to right): A view of the basement kitchen, 58 Gloucester Street, Susannah Place Museum. Photo © James horan; The Mint, Macquarie Street facade. Photo © Nicholas Watt; the State library of New South Wales. Photo © Scott Wojah

In 2016 Sydney Living Museums and the State Library of New South Wales continue their successful collaboration to present The Project, a full-day seminar for History Extension students that focuses on the History Project.

Students attend a range of presentations and workshops that provide access to curators, historians and librarians, engage them in analysing displays, exhibitions and artefacts, introduce them to sources from both collections, develop their research skills and improve their knowledge of how to access and use libraries and museums.don’t miss this exciting opportunity for your students to focus on the historiographical process, develop their research skills and gain invaluable advice, resources and inspiration as they embark on their own History project.

Susannah Place Museum

Special For two weeks in March Susannah Place Museum, Sydney Learning Adventures and The Big Dig collaborate to offer Archaeology in the Rocks as a special full day of history activities in The Rocks.

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A terrace of four houses built by irish immigrants in 1844, Susannah Place was home to more than 100 families over 150 years. it survived and remained largely unchanged through the slum clearances and redevelopments of the past century.

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Bookings

elizaBeTH farm70 alice Street rosehill nSW T 02 9635 9488

Hyde Park BarrackS muSeumQueens Square, macquarie Street Sydney nSW T 02 8239 2311

JuSTice & Police muSeumcnr phillip & albert streets circular Quay, Sydney nSW T 02 8313 5640

muSeum of Sydney on the site of first Government Housecnr Bridge & phillip streets Sydney nSW T 02 8313 5640

SuSannaH Place muSeum58–64 Gloucester Street The rocks, Sydney nSW T 02 8313 5640

Full details about Sydney living Museums’ school excursions, risk assessments and pre- and post-visit materials are available at slm.is/education

Please contact the museum where the excursion is delivered to make your booking, or visit slm.is/education to submit an online enquiry.

imageS: Students at the history Extension Extension Seminar day, November 2015. Photo © James horan; students participate in a program at Justice & Police Museum. Photo © James horan

With Sydney living Museums your students will discover past lives, events and stories in the places where they actually unfolded.

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