Public Tours

This season promises to be even more exciting than the past - with large excavations and two public archaeology tours every day.

Tour provide visitors with the opportunity to learn about the buried history at Port Arthur. They delve into the investigative processes we use, the methods of excavation and consequential analysis.

Posted by Tim

Welcome to Port Arthur Archaeology Program for the Summer of 2008

Port Arthur is Tasmania's premier tourist attraction with over 250,000 visitors per year, and the archaeology summer programme is becoming an increasingly popular part of the visitor experience.

In addition to the archaeological fieldwork, participants in the archaeology summer programme routinely engage with the public, helping to communicate both the archaeological process and complex meanings of the site to a varied audience.

These are their stories.....