Join Ngunawal custodian Wally Bell on a walk at Lanyon Homestead to learn about the Aboriginal connection to the area and the Murrumbidgee River

Since pastoral settlement began at Lanyon, music has been part of the lives of the different classes of people who lived and worked on the property

Listen to Erin Helyard play the 1840s Broadwood piano in the Lanyon drawing room or on the verandah in a unique and intimate performance of pieces from the era

Join Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera, for a unique master class

Join COG (Canberra Ornithological Group) and a Lanyon guide as we hopefully catch a glimpse of the migrating Honeyeater.

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Celebrate Lanyon Homestead’s autumn harvest and gardens

Step into the story on Canberra Day and revisit days gone by at Lanyon Homestead

Join Tracey Bool, production nursery horticulturist and Canberra Weekly gardening writer, for a practical gardening workshop

Jenny Horsfield talks about the stories of people on soldier settler blocks during the interwar years

Discover the stories of the eight men who returned from service in the Great War to take up soldier settler blocks on the former Tuggeranong property. 

An evening of magical Christmas fun

Lanyon is the perfect playground for inquisitive minds and creative hands

Very few men who served in the Great War returned to Australia unchanged by their experiences. They all lived with the legacy of those years as they tried, with varying degrees of success, to resume civilian life. 

Men who came back from the Great War could apply for a block of land, as reward for their service from a grateful nation. While such an offer promised a new start for the men and a step into economic security, for many of the men life on the soldier settler blocks brought years of struggle