Hall School Museum

Hall Primary School was a rural primary school on the northern outskirts of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. It was Canberra’s oldest continually operating school, having opened in 1911, until its closure in 2006. The school was originally established in New South Wales and was the responsibility of the New South Wales government until 1913 when the ACT was created.

It is the comprehensiveness of this school museum, in terms of the large variety of its education artifacts, documents and school records which is its greatest strength, rather than the individual value of its items. It provides viewers and researchers with an insight into typical rural primary schooling in New South Wales during the first half of the twentieth century. As such it is a most valuable community asset, in its original geographical context, in addition to being an important part of the Canberra district's educational history.