School Holiday Excursions

Program includes:

• Life in the City Watch House: In this interactive experience, an actor playing a sergeant will ‘arrest’ and process visitors at the Old City Watch House.
• Inmate Intel: Step back in time to discover what life was like in Melbourne long ago. Explore the grounds around the historic gaol and part of the cell block.

Multiple sessions available per day.

Program includes:

• PrisonBreak Explorers 2! You’ve Been Framed! Once a celebrated detective, you’ve been framed for a crime you didn’t commit. Join your guide to uncover who did it and escape to receive your pardon.

Package options:

• Package 1: PrisonBreak experience (60 minutes)
• Package 2: PrisonBreak experience + Movie
  Includes one PrisonBreak experience and one discounted child movie ticket. One adult movie ticket per 10 children is included.

Minimum charge: 30 students per day
Maximum capacity: 60 children per PrisonBreak session
Multiple sessions available per day.

Choice of movie is subject to availability and licensing agreements. Please advise your preferred movie title at the time of booking.

Programs include:

• Rippon Lea Ramble: Inspired by the famed teddy bears of Rippon Lea, Elm and Willow, be guided on an enchanting journey through the historic grounds.
• Mansion Time Machine: The Sargoods lived in the mansion and had servants to look after them. Explore the mansion and discover how people lived and worked in the 1800s.
• Old-Fashioned Games: Play games like children did when Rippon Lea was built in the 1800s — sack races, egg and spoon races, croquet, quoits and more.

Minimum charge: 30 children
Maximum capacity: 60 children
Morning and afternoon sessions available.

Program includes:

• Archaeological Dig: Roll up your sleeves, put on some gloves, and learn how to think and work like an archaeologist.
• The Old House on the Hill: The Armytage family lived at Como House for nearly 100 years. Explore their lives and those of their servants on a guided tour through the Victorian-era house.
• Garden Scavenger Hunt: Explore the extensive gardens just as the Armytage children did long ago.

Minimum charge: 30 children
Maximum capacity: 60 children
Morning and afternoon sessions available.

Program options:

• Ahoy Sailors! Join our crew on the ‘high seas’. Try your hand at steering, scrubbing the deck, ringing the bell and working the yardarm.
• Pirate Day! Experience the pirate life — dress up, receive a washable pirate tattoo and your very own pirate name. Help the captain scrub the deck and set off on a treasure hunt.

Sessions: 10.00am–12.00pm and 12.30pm–2.30pm
Minimum charge: 20 children per session (Ahoy Sailors!) / 30 children per session (Pirate Day)
Maximum capacity: 80 children per session

Program includes:

• Archaeological Dig: Roll up your sleeves, put on some gloves, and let our Dig Director show you how to think and work like an archaeologist.
• Back to Barwon Grange: Discover how people in Geelong lived in the 1800s, including toys, entertainment, technologies and the lives of children when Barwon Grange was built.
• Old-Fashioned Games: Enjoy games from the 1800s — sack races, egg and spoon races, skittles, croquet, quoits and more.

Minimum charge: 30 children
Maximum capacity: 60 children
Morning and afternoon sessions available.

Program includes:

• Homestead Time Machine: Learn about the McCrae family and their relationship with the Bunurong peoples, and hear how people lived and worked in the 1800s.
• Bunurong Garden Discovery Trail & Craft: Traverse the gardens on a special discovery trail to see what animals have been visiting, followed by a craft activity.
• Old-Fashioned Games: Play games like children did in the 1800s — sack races, egg and spoon races, skittles, quoits and more.

Minimum charge: 30 children per day
Maximum capacity: Strictly 60 children per day