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

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

View of a telescope within a dome, from below.

Shadows cast by the Powerhouse Parramatta exoskeleton on concrete

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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View of a telescope within a dome, from below.

Program Photofields

Sydney Observatory Photofields Tours

Tag iconTour

BookExternal link

when

6—7 Dec

price

Free

where

Sydney Observatory

Special-edition tours of Sydney Observatory will explore the site's history of photographic observation. These tours will offer an opportunity to look through Australia’s oldest working telescope, 150 years after its first use.

Program Partner

Also in the Series

Solar flare.

Solar flare.

Southern Sky Astrophotography

Calendar iconOpens 5 DecTag iconExhibitionLocation marker iconSydney Observatory

White smoke cloud with a black, starry background.

White smoke cloud with a black, starry background.

Narelle Autio and Trent Parke In Conversation

Calendar iconFri 6 DecTag iconTalkLocation marker iconAce Hotel Sydney

Close-up of a figure looking upwards wearing cardboard glasses.

Close-up of a figure looking upwards wearing cardboard glasses.

All Light, Everywhere

Calendar iconFri 6 DecTag iconScreeningLocation marker iconGolden Age Cinema

Yellow rings faded into darkness, with a blue cloud flowing left out of frame.

Yellow rings faded into darkness, with a blue cloud flowing left out of frame.

Astrosite telescope demonstration

Calendar iconSat 7 DecTag iconEventLocation marker iconSydney Observatory

Grey planet lit with a silver ring, and surrounded in pink.

Grey planet lit with a silver ring, and surrounded in pink.

Lumen Printing with Yvette Hamilton

Calendar iconSat 7 DecTag iconWorkshopLocation marker iconSydney Observatory

Water below trees scape.

Water below trees scape.

Photographing with Country with Peta Clancy

Calendar iconSat 7 DecTag iconWorkshopLocation marker iconSydney Observatory

Double exposure photo, of hands holding a clear disk in front of face for framing.

Double exposure photo, of hands holding a clear disk in front of face for framing.

Shadow Photography with Meng-Yu Yan

Calendar iconSat 7 DecTag iconWorkshopLocation marker iconSydney Observatory

A part of

Photofields

Photofields

Calendar icon6–7 Dec 2024Location marker iconAcross Sydney