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Winter School Holidays 2018. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Children & Family

From our beautiful historic houses and gardens, to our city museums and programs especially designed for families to enjoy - Sydney Living Museums is the perfect place for imaginations to run wild.

Throughout the year we offer a fantastic range of children and family-friendly programs, exhibitions and events across our 12 museums, including interactive exhibitions, school holiday programs, family house tours, and loads of other fun things to do.

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Alphabetical Sydney: Creative Lab

Open daily, 10am-5pm until 12 August 2018
Closed Good Friday
Museum of Sydney

Let your imagination run wild in a creative laboratory full of the sights and sounds of Sydney.

Rouse Hill House & Farm in LEGO® Bricks

Bookings essential on weekends and holidays
Rouse Hill House & Farm

Visitors young and old will be limited only by their imagination as they add their creations for all to admire inside this exhibition at Rouse Hill House & Farm.

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Promo image for school holiday programs with kids dressed in warm gear in outdoor setting.

School holidays

Winter School Holidays 2018: opening hoursTuesday 12 June 2018

Child feeding animal over wooden fence.

School holidays

Autumn School Holidays 2018: opening hoursMonday 19 March 2018

Woman in gardening gear talking to two kids in garden setting.

School holidays

Summer school holiday opening hoursWednesday 6 December 2017

Two little boys dress up in an old court room

Justice & Police Museum

Sydney’s underworld comes to life in 2016Tuesday 29 November 2016

Group seated around candlelit table.

Elizabeth Farm

Tour by candlelight at Elizabeth FarmTuesday 13 September 2016

Visiting a history museum for a tour means you may come with certain expectations, but the nightlight tour at Elizabeth Farm was not what we had expected at all.

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Boy and girl making craft related to homes in the Oak Tree Court at Elizabeth Farm. Photograph © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Craft & activities

Explore our treasury of children’s activities to keep them amused and occupied on rainy days or quiet moments at home. Here you’ll find print-out patterns, quizzes, stories, games and more.

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Girl and boy chopping vegetables in the kitchen, Vaucluse House. Photograph © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Recipes  

for kids 

Foraged from the history books of our houses these recipes are sure to delight the young mind.

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