Primary Programs

Students experience life in the 1840’s for the Bunurong people and the McCrae family from a youth’s perspective on the Mornington Peninsula pioneer property.

Try your hand as a real Able Seaman from the 19th Century and learn the ropes. Learn about the hardship for early settlers aboard a ship.

With four activities over a full day, students will really get an idea of Now and Then in the context of an early local Melbourne family and their celebrations in the distant past.

Learn about life in the Grand Mansion for those that lived there and those that worked there over the last 150 years.

Examine Melbourne's early history, the story of the goldfields and come face-to-face with Ned Kelly.

Re-enact a Court Room trial of the Ned Kelly or Elizabeth Scott historic crime cases.

Make history happen in your own classroom and find out what school was like for Melbourne students during the 1870s.

Students will come together as the latest recruits in the Pentridge ‘Detective Training Program’ to help thwart a daring escape!

Utilising experiential ‘hands on’ and object-based learning, our incursion and excursion programs help students and teachers to better understand this exciting discipline.