Badge Making Workshop

Bring your dancing feet and come join us in learning a few colonial dances, see how the convicts danced and why it was so important to them.

Today, most people dance because it is a happy activity; for convicts, there were deeper reasons including freedom, defiance, and an opportunity to express their self-identity.

Place Management NSW, Sydney Learning Adventures and The Rocks Discovery Museum are pleased to invite School's & students to take part in our 2023 NAIDOC Week Art Competition.

This new display takes a look at Cora Gooseberry’s life from a different angle. Celebrating her triumph in the face of adversity and providing political and historical context to her day-to-day life.

Come find out during the school holidays. Discover Elizabeth Hayward's story, as the youngest female convict to join the colony of Sydney. Hear about the work that was done daily and see some of the artefacts used. Discover the life of Gadigal people and the contact with the first European settlers.

An educational activity aimed for Primary School aged children 5-12 years. Play rat hunting on a guided museum tour, followed by Story Time and Origami Rat making at the museum attic.

Take a journey through the rights and freedoms of First Nations Australians.

Aunty Barbara McGrady is a leading First Nations photo-journalist. Her photographs form a significant visual record of First Nations identity and contemporary representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.