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in the United States, multiple centres would display the institution's collections. While Government Ministers argued the decision would be a "win-win" for Sydney and Parramatta, critics argued it would be a "lose-lose", with both cities losing important heritage. On 29 July 2020, the NSW government
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On 4 July 2020, it was decided to keep and renovate the Ultimo building instead of demolishing it and relocating its collections, and build an additional venue in Parramatta. The NSW Premier said this would allow for "an outstanding visitor experience in the areas of technology, science, engineering
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The planned three centres of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum were the existing building at Ultimo, the Parramatta riverside, Museum Discovery Centre at Castle Hill and the Sydney Observatory. The decision to keep Ultimo site was made in the context of increasing public awareness of the cultural damage
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The proposed new venue was larger than the old Powerhouse site in Ultimo, containing of 30,000 square metres, with about half (18,000 square metres) slated for exhibition and public space. The NSW Government promised to develop the new facility to international standards and engineered to present
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the new venue was designed to be more of an event space than a museum, as most of the 500,000 items in the collection could not be displayed in it, especially the very large ones, given that the design contained numerous cafes and bars, but no storage space, conservation laboratories, sufficient
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at the new site on 10 March 1988. The main museum building contains five levels, three courtyards and a cafeteria, as well as some offices. Workshops, library, storage and additional office space is located in the annexed tram sheds (still known in-house as "Stage One"). The size and continually
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The statement of significance for the Federation building says the Powerhouse played a "major part in the 20th-century development of the Ultimo/Pyrmont area and in the wider heritage conservation movement in NSW." and it was part of the Darling Harbour Bicentennial citywide adaptation project,
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exhibition focuses on the challenges facing the environment, human impact, and ways and technologies to stop this effect. There is a house setup called Ecohouse where people toggle light variables to see the outcome as well as other energy use simulators and a 'ecological footprint' game. The
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In November 2020, revised plans to move Willow Grove "brick by brick" also created further controversy, with the National Trust advising that dismantling a building of such fragile materials would be an expensive and "catastrophic" failure. Powerhouse Parramatta is due to open in 2025.
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The 'Interface: people, machines, design' explores how humans have been impacted by technology. A gallery of computing technology from the typewriter to the Tamagotchi. It explores successful and not-so successful design approaches made in the computing technology world.
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exhibition looks at space and discoveries relating to it. It includes a life size model space-shuttle cockpit. It has a feature on Australian satellites and joins the Transport exhibit through an underground temporary exhibit walkway and two side entrances.
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The proposed closure and move attracted wide-ranging criticism from museum experts, architectural heritage and urban design experts, cultural and business leaders, and the public on a number of grounds, including loss of cultural heritage, risk and cost.
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it would involve significant cultural destruction of existing heritage, including the architectural heritage of the original building as well as 19th century Italianate villa in Parramatta, known as Willow Grove, and a row of 19th century
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About 95 percent of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection is maintained in storage at any one time. From late 2004, 60 percent of this was moved to a new 3 hectares (7.4 acres) site in the northwestern Sydney suburb of
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was donated to the museum by its driver, who left it at the gates of the Harris Street building. There is also a horse-drawn bus and collection of motorbikes. Suspended aeroplanes, which can be viewed from balconies, include the
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in 1945. It is the largest suspended plane in any museum in the world, and an example of the most successful flying boat ever introduced and one that was important in connecting Australia by air with the rest of the world after
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and Locomotive No.1 but proposals for lending the large items to different organisations across the state were in train since 2019, and concern persisted about risks, logistics and decontextualisation of exhibits.
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engine, and the museum's locomotives, steam truck and traction engines, they are a unique working collection tracing the development of steam power from the 1770s to the 1930s. Engines on display include an 1830s
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The new Powerhouse made it possible to rehabilitate hundreds of treasures stored at Alexandria and "exhibit them for the first time in almost a century". In 1982, the museum incorporated the
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was incorporated into the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, as the museum was still formally known, though from 1988 this name was no longer used in marketing materials in favour of the
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announced it had abandoned plans to relocate three of the Powerhouse Museum's biggest exhibits – the Boulton and Watt steam engine, the Locomotive No. 1, and the Catalina flying boat.
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in 1854. The most popular exhibit is arguably "The Strasburg Clock Model", built in 1887 by a 25-year-old Sydney watchmaker named Richard Smith. It is a working model of the famous
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the proposed site for a new building was unsuitable as it is on a flood plain, which would affect the safety of the proposed undercroft and put patrons and collections at risk
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On 5 February 2024, Powerhouse Ultimo began a period of temporary closure until 2027 for major redevelopment. Community consultations were due to run until 25 February 2024.
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The transport exhibition looks at transport through the ages, from horse-drawn carts through steam engines, cars and planes to the latest hybrid technology. On display is
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This exhibition is remarkable in that nearly all of the engines on display are fully operational and are regularly demonstrated working on steam power. Together with the
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for architecture. It includes a specially installed reticulated steam system, run from the old boiler house, to drive the large, rare steam machines in its collection.
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announced that the Ultimo site would be closed from early February for up to three years, to allow for significant upgrades and redevelopment. A new
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films including the golden snitch, Nimbus 2000 and the Firebolt broomsticks, and various artefacts associated with all of the main characters.
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In September 1882, before the new museum could be opened a fire completely destroyed the Garden Palace, leaving the museum's first curator,
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plane. Among the cars is a 1913 Sheffield Simplex, one of only 8 in the world. A four-minute film shows old footage of public transport.
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Since 1988, the Powerhouse hosted a number of large temporary exhibitions, including ones based on popular cinema franchises such as
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Maiden commenced rebuilding the collection, but for the subsequent decade the new museum found itself housed in a large tin shed in
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The museum hosts a number of permanent exhibitions, including many concerning different modes of transport and communication.
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Fire Brigade's horse-drawn pump-engine. The museum owns a collection of mechanical musical instruments, of which the
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incorporated into "the transition of a major industrial location to a cultural, educational and tourism precinct".
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The Powerhouse Museum has its origins in a recommendation of the trustees of the Australian Museum in 1878 and the
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the business case for a complete shutdown and move did not consider the option of leaving it at the current site
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and it also established branches in some of New South Wales' main industrial and mining centres, including
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expanding nature of the museum's collection means that offsite storage facilities are also maintained.
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and her contribution to music, stage and screen, featuring many of her costumes. An exhibition about
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Inside a commercial QANTAS Catalina aircraft of the type on display in the Powerhouse, en route from
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flew on the first flight from Australia to South America, in which he brought home 29 soldiers from
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ware and other ceramics, as well as industrial equipment and industrial design, such as furniture.
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Various exhibitions have paid tribute to Australian popular culture. Some of these have included
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The Ultimo site was scheduled to be closed for three years from February 2024 for redevelopment.
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the size and type of collection made its removal and/or relocation extremely expensive and risky
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in 2011–2012 was another popular exhibition, showcasing real costumes and sets from the eight
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that shows the electric current through the glowing gas inside it, and changes when touched.
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there was ongoing public and expert opposition, a survey by the National Trust (NSW), and a
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typewriter, featured in the permanent collections of the Powerhouse Museum, as well as the
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films, together with recent advances in technology that are turning fantasy into reality.
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The Powerhouse Museum houses a number of unique exhibits including the oldest operational
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is located in the steam exhibition, where it is powered by a small fairground engine.
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and design at two major locations", and that like other large collections such as the
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with a collection consisting of only the most durable artefacts including a Ceylonese
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The museum has existed in various guises for over 125 years, previously named the
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building is listed on the New South Wales Government's State Heritage Register.
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1879 as the "Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales"
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across the Pacific Ocean on the first uncharted air route between Sydney and
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Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales (1879–1882)
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was significant in the development of Australia's commercial air services.
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controversially announced that the Powerhouse Museum would be relocated to
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impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage sector
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closing or selling it involved a serious "downgrading of public assets"
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on the destruction of Willow Grove was imposed by the NSW arm of the
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that would be done by closing the Powerhouse, along with the severe
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that had miraculously survived the blaze despite a 5-storey plunge.
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impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage
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Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales
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The most popular exhibit is arguably the museum's model of the
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goods lifts or environmental standards appropriate to a museum
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The main concerns expressed about the proposed move included:
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exhibition, showing models, props and costumes from all six
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On the box: great moments in Australian television 1956–2006
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The museum holds an extensive and significant collection of
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is planned, and the entrance will be moved so that it faces
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Buildings and structures awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal
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included items from the collection at her ancestral home,
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engine, a Ransom and Jeffries agricultural engine and the
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Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union
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Agricultural steam engine in Steam Revolution Exhibition
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Following its closure as a working observatory in 1982,
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Arts oriented temporary exhibitions have included the
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marked on its rings, dating back to the 17th century.
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and was given a new name: the "Technological Museum".
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years. As of December 2023 she is still in the role.
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Technological Museum (until August 1893 – March 1988)
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which looks back at life in Australia in the 1980s.
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The insecurity, the "deluge of controversy" and the
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Boulton & Watt Engine Engineering Heritage Award
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A black, re, and gold-trimmed locomotive with coal tender and two passenger cars sits on a rail siding at the museum
Locomotive No. 1
Powerhouse Museum is located in Sydney
Greater Sydney
New South Wales
Harris Street
Ultimo
Observatory Hill
Castle Hill
Coordinates
33°52′40″S 151°11′58″E / 33.877898°S 151.199573°E / -33.877898; 151.199573
Technology museum
New South Wales Government


Exhibition Centre

powerhouse.com.au
Sydney
Government of New South Wales
Ultimo, New South Wales
Sydney Observatory
Observatory Hill
Castle Hill
Parramatta
science museum
decorative arts
science
communication

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