Powerhouse Museum

A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Sepia photograph of the Technological Museum and a cow in the foreground

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Colour photograph of red corrugated iron building from a high vantage point

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

A tall rocket with a long trail of burning fuel lifts off from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral.

Shadows cast by the Powerhouse Parramatta exoskeleton on concrete

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

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Located in Sydney, Powerhouse Museum is the largest museum group in Australia. Powerhouse sits at the intersection of the arts, design, science and technology and plays a critical role in engaging communities with contemporary ideas and issues. It is custodian to more than half a million objects of national and international significance, and is considered one of the finest and most diverse collections in Australia.

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Latest Writing Commission

Redefining home

Parramatta Profiles: A conversation with artist Hayley Megan French

Parramatta Profiles: An introduction

Parramatta Profiles is a series on people making a difference to the city

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Two women sit on chairs talking to each other.

Anjilla Seddeqi x Wajiha Pervez

The Age We're In

Latitudes – Sometimes to One Hundred

A Subversus film x Powerhouse Parramatta

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A jar of Vegemite sits on a fridge shelf. Behind it is a six pack of Resch’s beer.

Beer + Vegemite

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 3

Bruce Pascoe sits in a grey arm chair wearing a peach coloured button up shirt, he has a white beard and is looking upwards and towards the right.

Nourishing Country

016 | 100 Climate Conversations

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Powerhouse Collection

Powerhouse is custodian to more than half a million objects of national and international significance. The Powerhouse Collection is considered one of the finest and most diverse collections in the world.

Since 2019, Powerhouse has been working on one of the world's largest digitisation projects to ensure our collection is more accessible to the community. More than 338,000 objects have been digitised to date and are now available to view online.

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