Outreach Learning Resources - 2025 - ACT Historic Places

All outreach resources are available for hire on a termly basis and are to be collect from and returned to Canberra Museum and Gallery, located here. After your order, the Programs Booking Officer will be in contact to organise collection. An invoice will also be sent to you in a separate email, there is a $25.00 hire fee for each resource. 

If you have any questions or require any assistance, please email our programs booking officer here. 


Artefact Chat

The Artefact Chat box contains items representative of their time, and relate to life in the past in Australia. Unlike the collections at ACT Historic Places museums, these objects can be handled by your class. Find more information on our website here. 

There are 4 boxes available with different themes: 

1) Travelling, School and Cooking 

2) Shopping and Washing

3) Bath time and Toys 

4) Toys and Holidays

Dawn's Suitcase 

A great hands-on addition to your classes visit to Calthorpes House. All objects in the suitcase can be handled and used by the class for investigations into family life/children in the past. Dawn's suitcase, similar to the Artefact Chat boxes, contain objects form the past, similar to the ones Dawn would have used. 

Convicts 

Inspired by the convict era of Lanyon Homestead, the Convict Outreach Learning Resource provides creative learning activities for students to explore the convict experience. Through art, writing, games and drama exercises the resource provides students with learning opportunities that align with HASS History learning for primary years 4-6, and complements our onsite convict programs.