Education program

School bookings

To book an excursion for your school, please contact Museum Curator, Fox Darcy at pioneerparkmuseum@griffith.nsw.gov.au

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Education resources

Griffith and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Previous Museum Curator, Bonnie Owen, talks about the history of the Spanish Influenza and Nurse Jenkins' gold watch..

Download Spanish Flu Activity Booklet(PDF, 837KB)

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Regular school excursion activities

Guided train tour ride

Both students and carers will love a spin around the Museum in our very own Pioneer Park Museum train. Train ride takes about 15 minutes and can include a guided tour for older school students, by Museum personnel.

Old-fashioned games

Students will learn how children their age played before the era of computers, iPads, and television. Old-fashioned games include sack races, egg-and-spoon races, quoits, tug of war, three-legged-race, skipping, hoop-and-sticks.

History talk

A guided tour by the Museum’s curator and/or volunteers to teach students about the different aspects of Griffith’s history. History talks will be tailored to suit students’ age, year group, and recent studies

Old-fashioned school lesson

Students step back in time in Pioneer Park Museum's Wumbulgal School House, where they engage in a school lesson just like the old days! Students experience the differences between school today, and education in the past.

Additional school excursion activities

Scones in Fairview (additional cost)

Students experience cooking and domestic life of the early 1900s and learn about the Hill Family of Fairview.

Bush dancing

Students learn simple bush dances and experience how communities celebrated in the early 1900s.

Scavenger hunt

Completed at leisure. Clues are hidden in the scavenger hunt sheet to find items among the buildings.

Travelling Museum

For schools considering a more accessible alternative to school excursions to the Museum, Pioneer Park Museum offers an in-school program, the Travelling Museum. The program involves the Museum’s Curator bringing items from the Museum for children to look at and touch, supported by an interactive presentation and activity program relevant to the syllabus teachings of the particular age-group. For more information on the Travelling Museum please contact the Museum Curator, Fox Darcy at pioneerparkmuseum@griffith.nsw.gov.au