Fairfield City Museum & Gallery offers an immersive education program ‘Living the Past’ to primary school groups in Grades 1 and 2, and the wider public.
The Living the Past program has been specifically designed to give visiting students and accompanying adults a glimpse into the lives of early European settlers in western Sydney. The Museum’s heritage buildings - such as its 1880’s Slab Hut - help to evoke the atmosphere of earlier days, when life for the area’s inhabitants was very different. Knowledgeable volunteer staff interpret each on site exhibit, bringing to life a time that today’s school students will not have experienced. During their visit students will be able to:
- see common daily activities demonstrated such as how shopping and laundry was done in the early 20th century.
- participate in a range of activities such as playing different types of popular school children’s games and taking part in an ‘old fashioned’ lesson in the Schoolhouse.
- handle artefacts that were commonly used by past generations such as pens with nibs and pre-decimal money.
- experience firsthand the types of conditions people lived under including; where they lived, what conveniences they had, how they were schooled, the clothes they wore, the variety of children's games played and how they did their laundry and shopping.
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