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SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS SCHOOL EXCURSIONS

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SCHOOL EXCURSIONS

CONTENTS WELCOME STAGE 4 Take a journey through time with Sydney Hyde Park Barracks Museum 4 Living Museums to interpret the past. With Sydney Living Museums your students will Museum of Sydney 6 discover past lives, events and stories in STAGE 5 the places where they actually unfolded. Hyde Park Barracks Museum 8 Our History programs ensure that students are STAGES 5 & 6 active participants in historical investigation, Justice & Police Museum 10 involving students in the analysis of primary and

STAGE 6 secondary sources and the use of evidence to develop informed responses to inquiry questions. Susannah Place Museum 12

The Project 13 Our programs for secondary school students cover a range of topics, outcomes and cross- PARTNER PROGRAMS curriculum priorities from the NSW Syllabus for Museums Discovery Centre 14 the Australian Curriculum: History K-10. Muru Mittigar inside back cover Led by our highly trained staff, more than 10,000 high BOOKINGS 15 school students participate in our programs every year across our unique museums and historic houses. We look forward to welcoming you and your students in 2017.

Mark Goggin Executive Director

Students at Susannah Place Museum during Archaeology in The Rocks, learning about the Cunninghame family, who once lived at 60 Gloucester Street. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM SYDNEY

The rich history and collections of this UNESCO World Heritage-listed site provide your students with unparalleled opportunities to investigate primary sources, including archaeological material. They will explore the stories of both the convicts and the female immigrants who resided at the barracks at different times in its history and formulate responses to historical inquiry questions.

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Investigating History Archaeology Underfoot

Students analyse and evaluate a range of primary DEPTH STUDY 1 and secondary sources, and reflect on the perspectives As they investigate the layered history of the Hyde and experiences of some of the people who lived at Park Barracks, students apply the processes and the Hyde Park Barracks, to develop their appreciation methods of the historian and the archaeologist. They of history as a study of human experience. They experience the different approaches to historical explore and discuss many of the museum’s displays, investigation by researching pictorial and written examine bias in historical artworks and learn sources and examining archaeological artefacts to about the practice of historical archaeology. complete a historical inquiry into the lives of different groups of people who lived at the barracks. HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM During a simulated archaeological dig, students  Monday to Friday work in small groups to excavate an artefact, then  $180 for up to 20 students categorise, weigh, measure, sketch and interpret it, and (see website for details) consider what it reveals about the history of the site.  1 hour  Maximum 80 students HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM  Monday to Friday IMAGES (left to right): Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums; A replica orphan’s trunk, modelled on an original displayed  $180 for up to 20 students at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, containing information about the experience of (see website for details) immigrant women during the 19th century. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Sydney Living Museums Curator Dr Fiona Starr inspects artefacts at the  1 hour 30 minutes Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Scott Finneran for Sydney Living Museums  Maximum 60 students

slm.is/education 5 MUSEUM OF SYDNEY on the site of first Government House SYDNEY

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Built on the site of first Contact and Colonisation Government House, the Museum DEPTH STUDIES 1 & 6, TOPIC 6D of Sydney is located at one of the Students conduct a historical investigation into the process and impact of the British colonisation of Australia, first places of contact between examining sources and perspectives. They practise colonists and Aboriginal people, historical archaeology by analysing a range of archival sources, handling artefacts from the archaeological and its exhibits provide rich collection, and using them to answer inquiry questions. sources, including archaeological Students also explore the way the museum interprets material, through which students contact history through artworks, re-creations and artefacts. In the Gadigal Place gallery, students use can explore Sydney’s early history. primary and secondary sources to understand the different ways that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people experienced contact and assess how the lives of individual Aboriginal people were affected by contact with the colonisers.

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY  Monday to Friday  $180 for up to 20 students (see website for details)  1 hour 30 minutes  Maximum 60 students

IMAGES (left to right): The Project seminar day for students of History Extension. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Gadigal Place exhibition [detail], Museum of Sydney. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums slm.is/education 7 HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM SYDNEY

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‘Perish or Prosper’ at the Hyde Park Barracks DEPTH STUDY 1 – MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES Students analyse a range of sources about the experiences of male convicts and assisted female Investigating History immigrants during the first half of the 19th century, identifying the different perspectives of these groups. Students explore the displays at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum to examine bias in historical artworks and Students focus on the experience of a particular convict evaluate the reliability of a range of sources. Using and use primary sources to investigate his experiences both archival records and archaeological artefacts, of leaving Britain, voyaging to New South Wales and they participate in an investigation and then answer adjusting to a new homeland. They also examine an inquiry question. Within the context of the actions, archaeological artefacts and archival records to answer values, attitudes and motives of people from the inquiry questions about the young orphan girls, survivors past, students analyse a range of primary and of the Great Irish Famine, who arrived in NSW as assisted secondary sources and use critical thinking skills. immigrants and were housed at the barracks after 1848.

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM  Monday to Friday  Monday to Friday  $180 for up to 20 students  $180 for up to 20 students (see website for details) (see website for details)  1 hour  1 hour 30 minutes  Maximum 80 students  Maximum 60 students

IMAGES (left to right): Hammocks at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Haley Richardson and Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums; A replica of the wooden trunk given to Irish orphan Margaret Hurley in 1849 used during education programs at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. The bonnet, religious materials and coins are a mix of primary and secondary sources. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums slm.is/education 9 STAGES & JUSTICE & 5 6 POLICE MUSEUM SYDNEY

With its re-created 1890s holding cells, offices, charge room, courts and vast archive, the Justice & Police Museum reveals more than a century of law and order in Sydney. Your students can engage with primary and secondary sources in a historical investigation or learn how the law and society are interrelated through the museum’s collection items and a mock trial.

10 slm.is/educationslm.is/education A Trial Run STAGE 5 COMMERCE STAGE 6 LEGAL STUDIES Within the setting of a historic police station and courthouse, this program gives students the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between the law and society.

Selected museum collection items are used to explain how the laws that govern society are developed, implemented and enforced. Students look at evidence that highlights how laws have evolved to reflect changing societal values and consider what it would have been like awaiting The Pyjama Girl Murder: trial in the holding cells. They also study the symbolism of the courtroom and learn about the A Case Study traditions and structure of the NSW legal system.

STAGE 5 HISTORY ELECTIVE A special mention of and thanks to the Students are asked to investigate, as historians, the NSW Police Prosecutions Command infamous murder of Linda Agostini, known as the ‘Pyjama Girl’, by examining evidence from various A highlight of the program is the mock trial during primary and secondary sources. They watch a 1939 film which students assume the roles of various court and evaluate its reliability as a source for their inquiries, officials and work through the processes and etiquette and discuss perspectives presented by the media of the of a Local Court hearing of either a drink driving time. Students explore, examine and evaluate artefacts or a prohibited drug case. To add to the impact and documents relating to the case, including forensic and authenticity of the experience, where possible evidence found during the criminal investigation. a prosecutor from the NSW Police Prosecutions Command will attend the trial to act as the magistrate To conclude, students take part in a re-creation and talk to the students about their role. in the museum’s courtroom of the 1944 murder trial of Antonio Agostini, and draw their own JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM conclusions about the surprising legal outcome.  Monday to Friday  $180 for up to 20 students JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM (see website for details)  Monday to Friday  1 hour 30 minutes  $180 for up to 20 students  Maximum 50 students (see website for details)  1 hour 30 minutes  Maximum 50 students Complement your visit to the Justice & Police Museum by visiting one or more of these nearby sites: CLOCKWISE (from left): Magistrate’s bench, canopy and Royal Coat of Arms, Police Court, Justice & Police Museum. Photo © Haley Richardson and Stuart Miller • Downing Centre criminal courts for Sydney Living Museums; Students at the Justice & Police Museum investigating 19th-century criminal mugshots in the Crime Museum during A Trial Run. Photo © Ross Heathcote for Sydney Living Museums; History students at the Justice & • Supreme Court of New South Wales Police Museum evaluating photographic material from the NSW Police Photography Archive. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; A student at the Justice • Parliament House of NSW & Police Museum presenting her mock-trial submission to a magistrate in the Police Court during A Trial Run. Photo © Ross Heathcote for Sydney Living Museums • State Library of New South Wales slm.is/education 11 STAGE 6

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM THE ROCKS Susannah Place Museum is the perfect place for your students to explore how historians and archaeologists work. They will be immersed in the conserved and restored interiors of the terraces that were a home to 100 families over 150 years and discover the significance of oral histories and documentary evidence in interpreting the past.

Archaeology in The Rocks ANCIENT HISTORY (PRELIMINARY COURSE) Students investigate the layered history of this terrace Students then visit Parbury Ruins, an archaeological of four houses built in 1844 to learn about the processes site where the foundations of a cottage built of conservation, restoration and interpretation. They between 1815 and 1823 are conserved beneath a consider why curators have chosen to interpret particular modern building. Here they have an opportunity time periods in the museum and how archaeology, oral to practise their skills in questioning, hypothesising, history and documentary evidence have been combined. analysing and interpreting physical evidence.

In the restored c1915 corner shop, students work like SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM historians, using source material to reconstruct the shop’s history, assessing physical evidence, analysing  Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday documents and photographs, and listening to oral  $180 for up to 15 students history extracts. They also watch a short film exploring (see website for details) the cultural significance of the site through the stories  2 hours of children who once lived there, and see different  Maximum 35 students examples of preservation techniques in use.

IMAGES (left to right): Students visiting the reconstructed c1915 corner shop at Susannah Place Museum during Archaeology in The Rocks. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; The Mint, Macquarie Street facade. Photo © Nicholas Watt for Sydney Living Museums; The State Library of New South Wales. Photo © Scott Wojah for Sydney Living Museums

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ONE DAY ONLY

PRESENTED WITH THE STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, NOVEMBER 2017

The November 2017 date and In 2017 Sydney Living Museums and the State booking information will be Library of New South Wales continue their announced in October 2017. successful collaboration to present The Project, Visit slm.is/theproject to sign a full-day seminar for History Extension students up for further information. that focuses on the History Project.

Students attend a range of presentations and workshops that provide access to curators, historians and librarians, engage students 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.

slm.is/education 13 Sydney Living Museums is This site’s unique and diverse range of collections will allow students to explore, create, see, and think and wonder excited to be partnering with about technologies and artefacts, old and new. They will the Museum of Applied Arts also be able to practise their critical thinking skills and see ‘behind the scenes’ of museum storage. Visit maas.museum/ and Sciences (MAAS) and the museums-discovery-centre for more information about Australian Museum on the educational opportunities at the Museums Discovery Centre. design and development of the new Museums Discovery Centre at Castle Hill.

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Muru Mittigar is now delivering K–12 education STAGES programs at Rouse Hill House & Farm. K-1 2

LEARNING WITH Culture Talk and Bush Tucker HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY/ABORIGINAL STUDIES MURU MITTIGAR Students gather at the Yarning Circle to hear Dreamtime AT ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM stories and a yidaki (didgeridoo), and learn and perform a traditional dance. What were the impacts of colonisation Aboriginal cultural organisation Muru Mittigar on Aboriginal peoples’ way of life? Students examine is now offering curriculum-based education samples of bush tucker plants, hear about how they were programs at Rouse Hill House & Farm for students gathered and prepared, and enjoy selected tastings. from Kindergarten through to Year 12. They pass around traditional hunting tools and learn about bush animals and their totemic significance. Muru Mittigar education programs support the cross- curriculum priority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander  Monday to Friday histories and cultures in powerfully memorable ways.  1 hour 30 minutes Each program also addresses a variety of stage-  Maximum 60 students specific outcomes. Students are led by an Aboriginal education guide who shares traditional knowledge and stories passed down within their family. Art Class and Boomerang Throwing For more details and booking information, please visit GEOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS/PDHPE murumittigar.com.au/school-programs Students learn about the meaning and spiritual purpose of Aboriginal artworks, and how they are used to illustrate and pass on stories. They learn to recognise symbols that evoke people, places, the dream world and relationships with nature. What surfaces and tools have Aboriginal people used to create artworks? Students listen to a Dreamtime story and then record it in a traditionally inspired artwork. They observe how a boomerang is thrown before trying it for themselves.

 Monday to Friday  1 hour 30 minutes  Maximum 60 students

IMAGE: A Muru Mittigar guide explains the ancient art of boomerang throwing. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Queens Square, Macquarie Street on the site of first Sydney NSW Government House T 02 8239 2311 Cnr Bridge & Phillip streets Sydney NSW JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM T 02 8313 5640 Cnr Phillip & Albert streets Circular Quay, Sydney NSW SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM T 02 8313 5640 58–64 Gloucester Street The Rocks, Sydney NSW IMAGES (above and far right): A member of the T 02 8313 5640 education team with students at Parbury Ruins, Millers Point, during Archaeology in The Rocks. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Investigating the conservation methods used at 60 Gloucester Street, Susannah Place Museum, during Archaeology in The Rocks. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

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COVER: Students visiting the reconstructed c1915 corner shop at Susannah Place Museum during the Stage 6 program Archaeology in The Rocks. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums