A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

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

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

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

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

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

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

View of Electric Keys showing keyboard instruments from the collection. A Hammond B3 organ from 1955 is in the foreground and the oldest keyboard instrument in the country, a Virginal from 1629, can be seen on the right. Photographed by Zan Wimberley.

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

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

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

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

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

Photofields

Across Sydney6—7 Dec

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

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.

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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Program

Electric Keys

Name: Electric Keys
Start: 2021-10-10T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-02T07:00:00.000Z
Location: Ultimo

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when

Ended 2 Jun 2023

where

Ultimo

11 October 2021 – 30 October 2022

At the end of 2020, Powerhouse acquired an important private collection of keyboards from the middle of the 20th century. Electric Keys presented these keyboards with our existing collection of mechanical instruments and synthesisers. The exhibition explored modern keyboard development and its contribution to the genres of jazz, pop, rock, soul and prog-rock.

Annual Report

A bird’s eye view of two keyboards placed at right angles from each other. Photo: Robin Hearfield

Electric Keys Late Recordings

Sounding The Collection