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Children’s Discovery Museum designs activities that are fun and very
educational. Our "immersion" galleries encourage children and their adult companions to be innovative,
creative and feel involved. Our workshops teach safe use of tools while providing an exciting projecting to construct - often these can be taken home. Our shows are dynamic and great for any venue.
Here are some of the activities we have developed. These are staged regularly on their own, or as part of larger events throughout Sydney and beyond.
Check out What's On for upcoming events near you.
HMS Discovery |
All aboard the HMS Discovery
The story goes: It is four years after the first fleet arrived in Sydney, the new colony's crops are failing and they need
supplies from England. HMS Discovery's 'crew' will be briefed by the captain to help stock the ship with
stores for the colony and unravel the challenges of life at sea as they navigate the journey from Plymouth to Sydney Cove.
HMS Discovery was staged at The Rocks Discovery Museum 2008-2010. It is a fun-packed, interactive learning experience involving a simulated 1792 ship's deck, wharf area and store. Willing and able crew from four to 12 years are required for the voyage of HMS Discovery from Plymouth, England to Sydney Cove.
In 2010 HMS Discovery was purchased by Fremantle Ports. |
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Build
It |
Meet in the Site Office to get your official Workplace Orientation from the Site Manager. Get dressed up into a safety vest and hard hat. Take a tool belt and a set of tools. You will receive your Green Card and be ready to build!
Have a go at being a Bricklayer, or maybe a Plumber, Electrician or Roofie! Try everything, there is plenty of work to do. Remember: safety is important - keep your safety vest on at all times (hard hat is optional) and your Green Card with your name on it visible. Your supervisors (parents or care-givers) are most welcome, encouraged in fact, to assist!
Children became professional builders equipped with their
own construction clothing, hard hats and user-friendly tools. Their
task is to complete a half built house, which required walls, flooring,
electricity and water.
Build It was first staged in the Loft Market of The Rocks Centre (now the Visitor Centre), The Rocks, Sydney in January 2003 following successful seasons of Kids Dig and enjoyed a two year period of school holiday seasons. Build It continues to be staged in various venues across Sydney such as the Sydney Royal Easter Show, ABC Kids Live and the Home Expo, and at special events interstate. |
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Kids
Dig |
Junior archaeologists uncover the secrets
of the past with "Kids Digs". Briefed as archaeologists
on the task at hand, they are also kitted out with specialist apparel
and tools. Children from
5 to 12 years unearth old relics and historical artifacts which they examine and use to explain the history of the site.
Kids Dig was first staged in the Loft Market of The Rocks Centre (now the Visitor Centre), The Rocks, Sydney in April 2003 The Dig remained in use for a further four school holiday seasons between the staging of Build It. The Dig returned to The Rocks Discovery Museum in 2007/8 leaving behind the concept at The Rocks Big Dig Visitor Centre and a for the University of Sydney Museums. |
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Tour of the Tummy |
Take a tour through a giant tummy! Enter through the lips and down the esophagus (mind you don't go the wrong way into the windpipe!). Once inside the noisy digesting tummy our tour guide will show you around and explain how foods are broken down and transported throughout the body. You can exit anytime through the rear.
Tour of the Tummy was conceived and staged for the Australian Science Festival (Canberra) in August 2005. Due to extreme popularity the number of tours offered was doubled from 8 to 16 a day! The Tummy returned to ASF in 2010 and has also been a major hit at Sydney's Ultimo Science Festival where it featured in the foyer of the ABC studios in 2008 and 2009. |
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3 minute video of the 'tummy'
Table Top Science & Make 'n' Take |
Something for everyone with our interactive table-top science activities and Make 'n' Take workshops. These are the very activities that helped coin the phrase "science is fun!". Try out the manacles (topology), witness the patterns of probability or perhaps experiment with the nature of cyclonic movements. There are also some puzzles to figure out, not to mention the magic of the mobius strip.
Make 'n' Take activities include creating balancing bird executive toys, kaliedoscopes, wing things and vegetable art. More extensuve activities are also available such as Treasures of the Earth.
Our family-fun table-top investigations have featured in activity tents for clients such as the City of Sydney's Concert of Fire in Darling Harbour (2006), Australia Day in Parramatta Park (2007) and the UNSW Family Day (2010). |
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Rat Trap Races |
Welcome to the Children's Discovery Workshop where you get industrial and experimental. In the first of our series of activities, Rat Trap Racers is your chance to make a race car and race it on the track against others. Use your ingenuity in creating the best racer.
Rat Trap Racers was first staged at the Teddy Bears Picnic in 2005 and returned in 2006. This is an especially good 'challenge' acivity for a family audience. |
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MadLab |
MadLab is the world-class technology workshop from the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Learn the safe use of a soldering iron while constructing an imaginative gadget - which you take home!
MadLab workshops appear all over Australia, having been at SciTech in Perth, Investigator in Adelaide and science festivals in Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney.
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