Education programs

Educators can select the following activities to complete a half day or full day excursion.

Complete the Excursion Booking Form to arrange an excursion or contact the Museum Education Officer on either 9550 3682 or email museum@mandurah.wa.gov.au.

Please read Excursion Essentials before booking your excursion.

Mandurah Museum

The Museum Education Officer begins by taking the students through the museum explaining each of the galleries and what life in Mandurah was like since Settlement.

The students then split into five or six groups depending on the number of students and adults. Each group will require one adult supervisor to assist them with the activities. The activities are hands-on and allow the students the opportunity to handle a range of old-fashioned household, teaching and play items.

Duration: One Hour
Cost: Free

Mandurah Heritage Walk

Discover some of Mandurah’s historical sites within the CBD. Listen to memorable local stories about these sites.

As part of the Mandurah Heritage Walk an optional 15-minute tour of Christ’s Church including a talk from the Parish Priest and the opportunity to see inside the building can be arranged.


Duration: One Hour
Cost: Free

Halls Cottage with the Mandurah Historical Society

The Museum Education Officer can arrange for the Historical Society to open Hall’s Cottage. The society runs a program which includes three activities: scrubbing on washboards, biscuit making and a tour of the cottage.

The society can only accept two classes on the same day and require the students to be in three groups when they arrive.

Please contact the Historical Society on Wednesday’s if you have further inquiries on 9581 2292 or info@mandurahhistorical.com.au


Duration: One Hour
Cost: $2.50 per student (adults are free)

Mandurah’s early settlement

The Museum Education Officer is available for incursions to speak to the students about Mandurah’s early settlement. Contact 9550 3682 or email museum@mandurah.wa.gov.au for more information.

Duration: One Hour per class.
Cost: Free

Loan boxes

A variety of boxes are available for loan from Mandurah Museum. These include games from the past, household items, past school days and a washing kit.
Please contact the Education Officer on 9550 3682 or email museum@mandurah.wa.gov.au to arrange the loan of an education box.

Duration: Two weeks
Cost: Free 

Other resources for loan

• Mandurah - 'Fishing Village to Holiday Resort': PowerPoint of photos, oral histories, activities
• Mandurah - 'Spanning the Ages' A digital history of Mandurah
• Barragup Yarns - 'An Indigenous History Film Project'
• Photographs Past and Present

The Education Officer takes requests from teachers to provide them with resources that will support their school programs. Please contact the Education Officer to discuss this.

Duration: Two weeks
Cost: Free 

Mandurah Children's Map

The Children’s Map of Mandurah gives children in grades 4-7 an historical overview of the place in which they live. A copy of the map is available free from the Museum.

The map focuses on the National Curriculum. It examines ‘Time, Continuity and Change’ by identifying existing heritage buildings in inner city Mandurah, and changes which have occurred to the natural landscape over the years. 

Information on our local environment including the waterways, migrating birds and animals are featured in the text and illustrations. Noongar language and the locations of some traditional campsites have also been included wherever possible on the map, giving an overview of the richness of cultural heritage in the Peel Region for Primary School Children. 

Accompanying the map is a student booklet that has a variety of activities for students to complete about Mandurah’s built, natural and cultural heritage.

Teachers' Idea Bank 

This is a collection of resources for teachers interested in incorporating Museum resources into their lessons. 

• Photo study
• Interrogate an object
• Object analysis
• What is a museum