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

Figure sits at a desk writing on an illuminated surface, shelves are in the background.

Agatha Gothe-Snape – Artistic Associate

Object Lesson

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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Stories

Agatha Gothe-Snape – Artistic Associate

Object Lesson

‘100 years later I think it’s important to look at these collection objects, the timber samples, oils and objects from the applies arts collection, and to think about that origin story of the Powerhouse.’

Agatha Gothe-Snape

Botanical illustration of a Blue Gum eucalyptus branch with leaves and flowers. — Botanical illustration of 'Eucalyptus saligna (Blue Gum)' by Agard Hagman
Object No. P1349

Eucalyptusdom reckons with our ever-changing relationship with the Eucalypyt.

Figure sits at a desk writing on an illuminated surface, at a birds eye view

Object Lesson

Object Lesson is a Powerhouse digital content series that upends and inverts the legacy of a set of lesson cards held in the collection since 1880. Named for English educator. Elizabeth Mayo’s 1831 publication Lessons on Objects, the series is underpinned by a desire to learn more about the objects in our collection from people and communities who have special relationships with them.

‘Knowledge stems not only from teacher or institution or object alone — but at the intersection of all.’
Agatha Gothe-Snape, Powerhouse artistic associate

Commissioned and produced by Powerhouse
Artists and artworks in order of appearance:
Agatha Gothe-Snape
Nicholas Mangan, 'Cutting’
Jonathan Jones, 'Garden Palace Study (The Sydney International Exhibition)'
Anna May Kirk
Bonhula Yunupingu and Damien Wright (video footage courtesy of Fred Kroh)
Lucy Simpson
Richard Leplastrier
Wukun Wanambi, 'Mittji'
Vera Hong, 'Let Me Pass Onto You'

Composer: Jane Sheldon
Music: 'Excerpt from Eucalyptus Wind Rose'

New works commissioned for Eucalyptusdom by Powerhouse, 2021.

Director: Georgina Veneziani
Cinematographer: David Ma
Editor: Sean McDermott
Commissioning editor: Lisa Havilah
Creative director: Callum Cooper
Creative producer: Cara Stewart
Production assistant: Stella Palmer
Curators: Nina Earl, Emily McDaniel and Sarah Rees
Curatorial project coordinator: Anna Gardner