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1 Jun 2025 - 13 Jul 2025Bring your own phone/camera and learn the basics of getting the best snaps while touring the grounds and front rooms of Ayers House. If you want to make sure you’re able to get some great photos next time you’re touring the Louvre or The Met, join this beginner tour tomoreBook now
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15 Jun 2025Join us for our next Heritage on Sunday event, Clear as Glass at the Tea Tree Gully Museum. Explore many incredible objects within the Museum collection made of glass. You will discover just how versatile glass is in creating a wide range of products. Think you’ve got an eye formore
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22 Jun 2025This walk will cover just a small portion of what is featured in our latest brochure ‘Yarralumla’. From the now vacated Forestry precinct (image above courtesy of the ACT Heritage Library 000368), we will pass the former CSIRO site, Brickworks and access the interesting incinerator in the grounds of themoreBook now
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15 Jun 2025Join this fascinating walk back in time to visit the site of Canberra’s first European settlement in 1824, and to explore the Acton Conservation Area. Acton peninsula is not only the birthplace of Canberra, its veritable Sydney Cove, but also where it grew up. From 1911, the detailed planning andmoreBook now
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23 Jul 2025‘Plants, Pots and Perfumes’ – the Lindesay Garden Seminar is back! Join us for a wonderful day in the gardens of historic Lindesay, overlooking Sydney harbour. Enjoy refreshments on arrival, hear from three esteemed guest speakers who will share their incredible horticultural insights and savour a delicious light lunch. GuestmoreBook now
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24 May 2025 - 31 Aug 2025Step behind the walls of Old Melbourne Gaol, where Australia’s most notorious outlaw met his end — and the legend began.moreBook now
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20 May 2025Afterlife Tales is a 90-minute ghost tour that covers true dark events from the Hobart Convict Penitentiary and dark stories from around Tasmania.moreBook Now
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2 Aug 2025 - 31 Aug 2025Each year the National Trust partners with Reconciliation NSW to tour the student finalists’ works throughout the state, allowing more schools to get involved and showcase their art and writing works. On show at historic Brough House, Reconciliation NSW’s Schools Reconciliation Challenge exhibition is comprised of a variety of impactfulmore
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8 Sep 2025 - 14 Sep 2025We invite you to join the National Trust (ACT) and Potter Travel for a wonderful trip to explore Western Victoria. This tour encompasses the wonderful Grampians National Park (hopefully recovering in springtime from the recent bushfires), some homesteads with fascinating stories and gardens, a visit to the Tae Rak Aquaculturemore
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14 Jun 2025 - 15 Jun 2025Explore the historic Z Ward at our Wine Fair, where history meets the art of winemaking! Roam around the ground and upper floors of Z Ward, where you will find a variety of wine makers/wineries in various cells, where they will offer complimentary tastings/samples of their wines. Plus, enjoy anmoreBook now
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23 Aug 2025Canines can channel their inner artist with dog paw painting and sit in a photo booth dressed like an artist. There will be a stick and ball library and many other dog-related activities including displays from Springwood Dog Training club. There will also be a Dogs Day Out Talent competitionmoreBook now
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3 Aug 2025Sited on one of the most interesting geological and indigenous areas in the Hunter, Largs was home to Wonnarua family groups thousands of years before Europeans, initially cedar getters, arrived. It straddles the boundaries of three of the most important settler Estates in the Hunter (Dunmore, Phoenix Park and Bolwarra).moreBook now
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13 Jul 2025Step back in time and see historic Grossmann House dressed for a Victorian Christmas suitable for a merchant’s family. Snap a picture in front of the Christmas Tree and join a guided tour, running on the hour. Take a leisurely stroll through the garden before sitting down to a deliciousmoreBook now
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19 Oct 2025Find that something special as you browse a wide variety of local market stalls dotted throughout the beautiful gardens that wrap around this Victorian-era bungalow. Pack a picnic and relax in Miss Traill’s beautiful garden. Enjoy morning and afternoon tea and a sausage sizzle for brunch or lunch. Visitors aremore
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24 Aug 2025In celebration James Fairfax’s adoration of his dogs, we invite you and your furry friends to join the festivities at historic Retford Park. Activities include free gardens tours for dogs and their humans, competitions, an agility course and demonstrations. Browse a range of stalls selling a variety of dog-related goodiesmoreBook now
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11 Sep 2025 - 12 Oct 2025Working in pen and ink, Desmond’s pictures include an incredible level of intricate detail. Of particular interest to him are shadows and reflections on glass; sometimes unexpected in tortured planes and weird fragments of what they are reflecting, sometimes half-revealing what is inside. Desmond studied art and design at themore
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13 Sep 2025Step into a world of inspiration at the iconic Norman Lindsay Garden, where the beauty of nature and art seamlessly come together. In this immersive two-day Plein Air painting workshop, artist Corinne Loxton will lead you in capturing the breathtaking sculptures by Norman Lindsay, set against the backdrop of vibrantmoreBook now
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21 Sep 2025You are cordially invited to join us at an enchanting Regency Day Out this spring. Delight in captivating Regency fashion talks by Dress Historian, Dr Lorinda Cramer and Old Government House’s Assistant Curator, Anna Ridley. Step inside Old Government House for a special viewing of the delicate and rarely seenmore
