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a: cnr. Gardenia Ave &
Great Western Highway Emu Plains
ph: (02) 47354394
e: info@armsofaustraliainn.org.au

Hands on activities for students include:

The Dairy:  Students are shown how farmers used to milk their cows. They are able to churn cream into butter using the old hand churn.  They see cheese moulds and milk churns used for transporting milk to the local dairy.

Washing: Students get to hand wash clothes using scrub boards with hand made soap, use a clothes mangle to wring out the clothes and work a hand crank washing machine.

 Barn: Students see how the blacksmith was the heart of a community with his shop making and repairing all the old equipment.  They are shown the farm implements used to harvest the crops and how they were sharpened using a grindstone.

 Games : Games were a part of life.  Students will get to play old fashioned games including horse shoe throwing and quoits.

 Parlour: Students see how evenings at home were spent. The room includes an old foot pump organ, gramophone, Singer sewing machine and children's toys.

 Foyer : In the foyer are convict leg shackles with the old ball and chain. There is a fully operational plug to plug telephone switchboard connected to phones around the museum.

 Millennium Room:  Students see those things that are today considered an oddity, including an apple corer, moustache cup, collar box, fly paper, adding machines, typewriters and much more. 

 Bedroom : In the bedroom students see the old horsehair stuffed mattress and the gazunder that sits under the bed. There is a night stand for washing in the morning.

 Schoolroom: Students get a chance to write with a quill and ink, or write with a slate board and slate pencils sitting at an original old school desk.

 

 

 

 

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