Seven Years for a Pair of Boots: Penal Transportation Object Handling

A family object-handling activity explores people transported from Ripon to Australia as convicts. Visitors handle restraints, match crimes to sentences and make a message medallion.

The drop-in activity uses local cases to explore penal transportation to Australia. Families consider whether historical sentences were fair, handle restraints of the kind used before departure, and scratch a message into a medallion. A luggage-tag board remains available during half term. Suitable for children aged seven and over with adult supervision; no booking is required. The activity takes place on 27 October; published clock times conflict, so contact the museum for the confirmed session hours.