Calthorpes' House is a window into an almost forgotten world. Built in 1927, this genuine survivor is a treasure house of domestic history.

Original furnishings, household appliances and photos reflect the fashionable ideal of style and taste in the middle class Australian home of the late 1920s.

Education Programs

Artefact Chat

Can artefacts tell stories? Explore the past
with your ears at by listening to oral histories, become artefact detectives using primary sources, and craft your own scrapbook page inspired by the sights, sounds, tastes and
smells of Calthorpes’ House! Artefact Chat is
the excursion component of an outreach Education Program: www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/artefactchat

Age: F-2

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