Past Programs
Connecting Seniors – Family Collections Keeping your Objects and Photographs Safe
Do you have a precious family collection? Is it stored in the back of a cupboard or in a storage box? Do you want to learn how to protect it for the future generations? Join us at the museum for a session with Tegan Anthes. This session will introduce the participants...
Connecting Seniors – Family Collections – Digitising and Sharing Your Photographs and Documents
Are you the keeper of the family photographs and documents? With current technology every member of the family can have a copy! This session will introduce the participants to creating digital copies of historical photographs and documents to share with family and...
Connecting Seniors – See, notice, connect
“The benefit of journaling is not limited to what you produce but rather found in your experience and how you think along the way.” (John Muir Laws, 2016) Journaling is a process that facilitates and deepens connections to everyday objects, events, and places through...
Winter Pruning
Please note the date has been changed from May 22nd to May 29th due to prediction of rain The raspberry canes, fig tree and plum trees need their winter prune. Join the Eskbank Volunteers for a demonstration of pruning by Jessica Lawn, the designer of our Community...
Afternoon Tea with the Pollinators
Join Megan Halcroft (PhD), from Bees Business, for a ‘talk and walk’ around Eskbank House Museum gardens. • Sunday the 19th of January 2025. From 3pm – 5.30pm • 45-minute science-based, image-rich presentation on native bees. • Light afternoon tea, compliments of our...
School Holiday Activities
School Holiday Activities are happening across the Lithgow region. Click here to download a copy of the School Holiday Activities Guide
Change of hours for ANZAC Day 2024
Eskbank House Museum will open from 12pm to 4pm on Thursday 25 April 2024 Lest we Forget Pictured: Post cards from the Front
Summer Market Harvest Basket Day Come and Help
The Community Heritage Garden Team shares the produce from Mary’s Garden with the community. In the school holidays come to the museum to pick your own vegetables and help prepare for the next season’s planting. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Thursday 18...
Voices from the past
Session 1Deaconess Cordelia Moberly (and father) at St Paul’s, Lithgow, a presentation by Keith Painter Cordelia Moberly served as a Deaconess at St Paul’s, Lithgow, from September 1922 to January 1924. Her father, Rev. E. G. Moberly, had preceded her as locum tenens...
What’s in Your Backyard – Seven Valleys Locals Day
An event especially for Seven Valleys locals, come and rediscover our magnificent home region. Show your proof of residence in the Lithgow City Council area and you will receive discounts and free entry to participating attractions on Sunday 17th September 2023....