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At Sydney Living Museums we are proud to offer your students a wide range of stimulating education programs that combine immersive experiences in authentic historical contexts with focused activities to develop critical, creative and reflective thinking.

Our programs invite students to explore past lives and events as they practise the skills and processes of constructing history. A diverse range of topics and curriculum outcomes is covered, from colonisation and the history of contact with Aboriginal people to archaeology and the historical aspects of crime and punishment. We focus on teaching students how to use and evaluate a range of primary and secondary sources while undertaking a historical inquiry.

We have carefully developed our programs to link to NSW syllabus outcomes and cross-curriculum priorities, and have adapted them in response to the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10. We are also excited to offer a new Stage 5 program that complements the Museum of Sydney exhibition Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story.

We are proud to once again collaborate with the State Library of New South Wales to offer the popular full-day seminar for Stage 6 History Extension students, The Project. The seminar focuses on historiography and developing students’ knowledge and skills before they embark on the History Project.

We look forward to welcoming you and your students to a Sydney Living Museums program in 2014.

Mark Goggin Director

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

The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales Government.

STAGE 4Contact, Museum of Sydney

Archaeology Underfoot, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Investigating History, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

STAGE 5Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story, Museum of Sydney NEW

Investigating History, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

The Pyjama Girl Murder: A Case Study, Justice & Police Museum

STAGE 6Archaeology in The Rocks (full-day program), Susannah Place Museum, The Big Dig and The Rocks Discovery Museum

Archaeology in The Rocks, Susannah Place Museum

The Project: History Extension Seminar, Museum of Sydney and State Library of New South Wales

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SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS EXCURSIONS STAGES 4, 5 & 6

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$10 FAMILY PASS FOR STUDENTSEvery student attending one

of our school excursions receives a special family pass offer to visit any one of our 12 museums and historic houses for just $10!

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MUSEUM OF SYDNEYTuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutesMaximum 60 students

This program for students in Stage 4 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10) incorporates outcomes from Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts, Topic 6d: Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History.

The Museum of Sydney is built on the site of first Government House, a key location in the history of contact between colonists and Aboriginal people. Students explore how the museum interprets contact history through artworks, audiovisual re-creations and

static displays, and examine and analyse artefacts from archaeological surveys of the site. They also use written and pictorial sources to understand different experiences of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, and assess how the life of at least one Aboriginal person was affected by contact with the colonisers.

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMMondays to Fridays, all Terms1 hour 30 minutesMaximum 60 students

This program for students in Stage 4 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10) incorporates outcomes from Depth Study 1: Investigating the Ancient Past.

Students investigate the layered history of the Hyde Park Barracks. They apply the processes and methods of the historian and the archaeologist as they research pictorial and written sources, as well as archaeological

artefacts, to complete a historical inquiry

into the lives of some of the different groups of people who lived at the barracks.

During a simulated archaeological dig, students work in small groups to excavate, categorise, weigh, measure, sketch and interpret an artefact, helping them to better understand the different approaches archaeologists and historians take to historical investigation.

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMMondays to Fridays, all Terms 1 hourMaximum 80 students

This one-hour program for students in Stage 4 History integrates skills and concepts from the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10.

Students 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

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helps students to develop their appreciation of history as a study of human experience.

Students explore and discuss many of the museum’s displays, examine bias in historical artworks and learn about the practice of historical archaeology.

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MUSEUM OF SYDNEYMondays to Fridays, Terms 2 & 3 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 60 students

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This is a program for students in Stage 5 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10). It incorporates outcomes from Depth Study 2: Australia and Asia, Topic 2a: Making a Nation.

Students learn about the experiences of Chinese people in Australia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including their reasons for migrating, how they lived and worked, the contributions they made to Australia’s development and the effect of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 on families and individuals.

During a guided tour of the exhibition students evaluate the reliability and usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and identify and analyse the reasons for different perspectives and interpretations of these events.

In 1888, several boats carrying Chinese immigrants sailed through Sydney Heads into a crisis that would shape the nation. Chinese people had been arriving in Sydney for over 30 years, but by 1888 growing ill will towards them had broken out into open hostility. Those aboard the SS Afghan, Menmuir and Guthrie were detained and deported under harsh new immigration laws hastily rushed through parliament.

The ‘Afghan incident’ was catalysed by the threat of cheap Chinese labour, compounded by prejudices demonising the Chinese and their way of life. It paved the way for the White Australia policy and the exclusion of Asian immigrants for the next 80 years.

Celestial City explores the background to and consequences of this crisis through the stories of Sydney’s Chinese people.

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Mondays to Fridays, all Terms 1 hourMaximum 80 students

This one-hour program for students in Stage 5 History integrates skills and concepts from the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10.

Students explore the displays at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, examining bias in historical artworks, evaluating

the reliability of a range of sources and participating in an investigation to

answer a specific inquiry question.

The investigation combines archaeological artefacts from the barracks’ collection with archival records. Students analyse a range of primary and secondary sources, use critical thinking skills and interpret history within the context of the actions, values, attitudes and motives of people in the past.

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JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUMWednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutesMaximum 50 students

This is a program for students in Stage 5 Elective History who are completing the thematic study Crime and Punishment.

Students are asked, as historians, how they would investigate the infamous murder of the ‘Pyjama Girl’, Linda Agostini, using evidence from various primary and secondary sources. They watch a 1939 film and evaluate its reliability as a source, and discuss perspectives presented by the media of the time. During a guided tour of the

museum, students explore, examine and evaluate primary sources relating to the case (including forensic evidence found during the criminal investigation), learning how a wide range of sources provides the evidence required to pursue a historical inquiry.

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

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SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUMWeek 1: Monday 10 – Friday 14 March 2014 Week 2: Monday 17 – Friday 21 March 2014Bookings open Monday 3 February 2014Full day (10am–2.30pm)Maximum 70 students

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This program for students in Stage 6 Ancient History (preliminary course) incorporates outcomes from Part I(a) Investigating the Past: History, Archaeology and Science.

Each 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 hear a practising archaeologist discuss their latest work in the field, and they reflect on the roles of archaeology, science and history in contemporary society. Students visit Parbury Ruins, go on a guided tour of The Big Dig archaeological site, and explore Susannah Place Museum and The Rocks Discovery Museum.

A FULL-DAY PROGRAM WITH SYDNEY LEARNING

ADVENTURES AND THE BIG DIG

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This program for students in Stage 6 Ancient History (preliminary course) incorporates outcomes from Part I(a) Investigating the Past: History, Archaeology and Science.

While visiting the conserved interiors of Susannah Place Museum, students learn how archaeologists investigate buildings that are still standing, and how researching both archaeological and archival material produces a richer understanding of the past.

Students weigh, measure, classify, describe and draw a 19th-century artefact. They are then led on a 10-minute walk through The Rocks to the conserved archaeological dig site, Parbury Ruins. There, students examine the underground dig and some of the more than 20,000 artefacts that were uncovered. En route they will visit the ruins of a tiny house in nearby Ferry Lane and learn what historical records can tell us about its extraordinary social and political context.

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SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUMTuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, all Terms2 hours Maximum 35 students

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PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED, SO REGISTER EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.To ensure you receive information about this popular event, email your contact details to education@sydneylivingmuseums.com.au

In 2014 we continue our successful collaboration with the State Library of New South Wales to bring you The Project, a full-day seminar for History Extension students that focuses on the History Project.

We are proud to present a range of talks and workshops, delivered by practising historians and museum and library professionals, that draws on our collections and expertise in Australian history to give students insights into

historiography. Students develop their research and critical thinking skills and gain invaluable advice and resources before embarking on their own research for the History Project.

The seminar will be held at the Museum of Sydney and the State Library of New South Wales.

The date of the seminar and booking information will be announced in early October 2014.

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ONE KEY • 12 MUSEUMS • MANY LIFETIMES

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Queens Square, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW T 02 8239 2311

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM Cnr Phillip & Albert streets Circular Quay, Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Cnr Bridge & Phillip streets Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM 58–64 Gloucester Street The Rocks, Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

BOOK YOUR EXCURSIONTo make a booking for your school, please telephone the museum or historic house where the program is delivered.

Detailed information about school programs and pricing, risk assessments, pre- and post-visit materials and online resources are available at sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/education

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VISIT OUR MUSEUMS

GOVERNMENT HOUSE 1837THE STATE’S VICE-REGAL HOME

Take a guided tour of the great hall, grand dining room and elegant ballroom of this residence designed in England by the fashionable architect Edward Blore.

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, MACQUARIE STREET, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9228 4111

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM 1819A WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Experience what life was like for the convicts who built Sydney at this museum housed in Governor Macquarie’s original convict barracks.

QUEENS SQUARE, MACQUARIE STREET SYDNEY, NSW T 02 8239 2311

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM 1856LAW AND ORDER

These historic police buildings once hosted infamous criminals like bushranger Captain Moonlite and sly-grog queen Kate Leigh.

CNR PHILLIP & ALBERT STREETS CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9252 1144

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY 1995ON THE SITE OF FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE

Discover the story of our city through history, archaeology and architecture. Enjoy our exhibitions in 2014, including Eat Your History (until 9 March), Suburban Noir (until 6 April), Celestial City (29 March–12 October) and Iconic Australian Houses (12 April–17 August).

CNR BRIDGE & PHILLIP STREETS, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9251 5988

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM 1844SYDNEY’S WORKING-CLASS HERITAGE

Discover the laundry coppers, backyard toilets, worn linos, tiny kitchens and crowded living quarters when you visit this rare surviving example of a working-class terrace.

58–64 GLOUCESTER STREET THE ROCKS, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9241 1893

THE MINT 1811/2003MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN A HISTORIC PLACE

The Mint is Sydney’s oldest surviving public building and the location of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, where you can immerse yourself in the history of interiors and gardens in NSW.

10 MACQUARIE ST, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 8239 2288

CONVICTS, CRIMINALS & CULTURE IN THE CITY

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FIND TREASURED SECRETS IN SYDNEY’S SUBURBS

ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE 1835AUSTRALIA’S FINEST INTERIOR

Step inside the Macleay residence, once claimed to be the ‘finest house in the colony’, and be stunned by the breathtaking harbour views, sweeping staircase and domed roof.

7 ONSLOW AVENUE, ELIZABETH BAY, NSW T 02 9356 3022

ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE 1948ICONIC MID-20TH-CENTURY DESIGN

Immerse yourself in this 1950s modernist house designed by architect Harry Seidler, which still boasts its original furniture and interiors.

71 CLISSOLD ROAD, WAHROONGA, NSW T 02 9989 8020

VAUCLUSE HOUSE 1805A COUNTRY HOUSE BY THE HARBOUR

Delight in the ornate interiors of the home of statesman William Charles Wentworth and his wife, Sarah. See the servant’s quarters, including the kitchen, dairy and cellars, and discover our historic kitchen garden.

WENTWORTH ROAD, VAUCLUSE, NSW T 02 9388 7922

LIFE BEYOND THE CITY: ORIGINAL HOMESTEADS AND FARMLAND

ELIZABETH FARM 1793THE MACARTHURS’ DOMAIN

Visit Australia’s oldest surviving homestead, built by pastoralist John Macarthur and his wife, Elizabeth.

70 ALICE STREET, ROSEHILL, NSW T 02 9635 9488

MEROOGAL 1885HOME TO FOUR GENERATIONS OF WOMEN

Gain an insight into the everyday lives of the family of women who lived in this enchanting house in Nowra and tended its charming garden.

CNR WEST & WORRIGEE STREETS NOWRA, NSW T 02 4421 8150

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM 1813UNTOUCHED HISTORY

Crammed with thousands of objects – everything from the earliest colonial treasures to a 1960s television – this house chronicles the changing fortunes of six generations of one family.

356 ANNANGROVE ROAD, ROUSE HILL, NSW T 02 9627 6777

ONE KEY 12 MUSEUMS MANY LIFETIMES

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ELIZABETH BAY HOUSEELIZABETH FARMGOVERNMENT HOUSEHYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMJUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUMMEROOGALMUSEUM OF SYDNEY on the site of first Government HouseROSE SEIDLER HOUSEROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARMSUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUMTHE MINT AND CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY & RESEARCH COLLECTIONVAUCLUSE HOUSE

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The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales Government.