Orange Regional Museum has announced 3 new curriculum-linked learning programs available for schools, connected to upcoming exhibition Bloomfield: 1925-2025.
A new exhibition tracing the history of Bloomfield Hospital opens at Orange Regional Museum on Friday 7 November 2025.
The Museum has launched 3 brand-new excursion programs to help schools explore the significance of Bloomfield, and support teaching and learning for history and health.
Bookings are available from Monday 10 November 2025, until the exhibition closes on 26 July 2026. These learning programs are offered free of charge.
The programs are:
Early Learning: Busy Hands (45-60 minutes)
- EYLF Outcome 1 - Children have a strong sense of identity
- EYLF Outcome 3 - Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
Making, growing and creating keeps our bodies busy, but it also helps our minds. This session takes Bloomfield's legacy of occupational therapy and reframes it for early learners. Inspired by gardening, weaving, embroidery and art, we'll explore the connections between how we spend time and our wellbeing through play, stories and artmaking.
Primary: Bloomfield, Health and Wellbeing (60 minutes)
- K-6 PDHPE - Identity, health and wellbeing
Using our understanding of staff and patient experiences at Bloomfield in sports teams, performing arts and occupational therapies, we'll explore how care for identity, health and wellbeing has changed over the last century in an age-appropriate way. Taking inspiration from Bloomfield's legacy of occupational therapy and outdoor work, students will try out and compare different activities used to support wellbeing and positive identity both today and in the past.
High school: Bloomfield After the War (90 minutes)
- Stage 5 History - Australians at War (issues of personnel returning from service); Migration Experiences (1945-c.2016)
Bloomfield Hospital was central to the post-war experience of both returning service personnel and European migrants in Orange. Both were well-represented as patients and staff, and contributed to the strong community that formed around Bloomfield. In this facilitated visit, students will use objects and original sources to deepen their understanding of how community support, medical treatments, employment and cultural life shaped the post-war experience of both returned service people and migrants.
