What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Please enquire for availability.

Duration

60 minutes

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years 5 to 6

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 15 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 30 students

Cost

$12 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Discover the Dome in this interactive, history curriculum aligned tour designed for upper primary students.

The Royal Exhibition Building Tour invites schools to learn about the building's distinctive history and enjoy breathtaking views from the Dome Promenade not seen for over 100 years.

Students will experience

• Immersion in a historical site - the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounds
• Critical thinking and questioning skills
• Observation and object-based learning

Students will learn

• About the historical significance of the Royal Exhibition Building and the history of its varied uses
• Of the impacts of colonisation on First Peoples
• About Australia’s path to Federation and how it shaped the nation
• How Melbourne has changed over time, and the changing experiences and perspectives of its population
• About primary and secondary sources
• To recognise the perspective from which much of Melbourne’s history has been told and recorded

Accessibility

Three levels of the exhibition (basement, mezzanine and lower promenade) are wheelchair accessible via a lift. The fourth level, the upper dome promenade, is not wheelchair accessible and requires participants to climb around 20 steps.

From there, there are additional stairs required to travel around the entire upper promenade to see a 360 degree view. Both the upper and lower promenade are outside and exposed to the elements.

Victorian Curriculum links

History: Levels 5 and 6

Australia (1800-1900)

• the impacts of the development of colonies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, local-born colonists and migrants, and on the environment
  VC2HH6K02
• the continuities and changes associated with significant developments or events on a colony
  VC2HH6K03

Australia (1900-2000)

• significant individuals, events and ideas that led to Australia’s Federation, including the Constitution and democratic systems of government
  VC2HH6K07
• the changing experiences and perspectives of Australian democracy and citizenship of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children since Federation
  VC2HH6K08

Historical Concepts and Skills

• ask and develop historical questions to direct historical investigations
  VC2HH6S01
• describe historical perspectives and identify beliefs, values and attitudes of people and groups based on evidence from primary sources
  VC2HH6S05
• explain different historical interpretations
  VC2HH6S06
• explain the causes and consequences of significant events and developments
  VC2HH6S08
• explain the significance of events, individuals and groups that contributed to continuity and change
  VC2HH6S09

Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 5 and 6

Questions and Possibilities

• the construction of questions for identifying and building understanding of information, possibilities, processes and activities
  VC2CC6Q01