Children & Family
Discover both online and onsite experiences to enjoy as a family. Explore this page for events and workshops, our latest family exhibitions, and craft activities and recipes to create at home.
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Craft & Activities
Explore our treasury of children’s activities inspired by our museums and stories. Here you’ll find print-out activities, art projects and more.
Kids in the Kitchen
Foraged from the history books of our houses these recipes are sure to delight the young mind.
Videos for kids
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Baked Apples
Duration: 5:13
Duration: 5:13
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Going to School
Duration: 1:35
Going to School
What was life like for ordinary working-class children living in the suburbs or on the fringes of Australian cities in the early 1900s? How different or similar was their day to yours? Step into the shoes of the Youngein children, Jim and Dolly, from Susannah Place, Sydney and find out how they lived.
Duration: 1:35
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School holidays
Summer school holiday opening hoursWednesday 6 December 2017
Justice & Police Museum
Sydney’s underworld comes to life in 2016Tuesday 29 November 2016
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.
Children & Family
Winter holiday funFriday 24 June 2016
