Pioneer Settlement - School Holiday Program

Next date: Saturday, 18 January 2025 | 04:00 PM to Sunday, 26 January 2025 | 11:59 PM

Bring the school holidays to life with activities for children of all ages. Explore life as it was, with real life restorations and working displays of Australia’s pioneering past.

By Day

School Holiday Activations

• Print Shop: 9.30am – 10.30am
• Pioneer School: 11am
• Butter Making: 1pm Rope
• Making: 2pm

Daily Activations

• Blacksmith: 9.30am – 3.30pm
• General Store: 9.30am – 4pm
• Horse & Carriage: 9.30am – 4pm
• Vintage Car: 10am – 3.30pm
• Music Shop & Photo Parlour: 10am – 3.30pm

BY RIVER

Pyap River Cruises

• Bookings essential – 10.30am and 2.30pm every day

BY NIGHT

Heartbeat of the Murray - Tuesday | Thursday | Saturday

Legends of the Mallee - Monday | Wednesday | Friday | Sunday

• Bookings essential – Showing nightly at 9.15pm

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Twenty-one zoo animals are hiding around the Pioneer Settlement (and we’re not ready to be a zoo!)

Can you help us find them all? We’re calling all budding zoologists and nature lovers to help.

Search for a flamingo, zig-zag by a zebra, or hop past a hippo, and help us track them down…

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HANDS-ON PAINTING ACTIVITY

Want a zoo animal of your own to take home?

Purchase a ready-to-paint wooden animal from the Drapery – choose from an elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, turtle, crocodile, or lion – rawr! Then get creative with paints in the Mechanics Institute and bring your animal to life!

When

Location

Pioneer Settlement, 125 Monash Drive, Swan Hill, 3585, View Map