Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

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

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Powerhouse Parramatta Topping Out

Major construction milestone achieved for the new museum

Andy's Super Short Stories

Featuring Objects from the Powerhouse Materials: Paper exhibition

2025

Stories

Andy's Super Short Stories

Featuring Objects from the Powerhouse Materials: Paper exhibition

By Andy Griffiths

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths is one of the most beloved children's authors in Australia.

From the chaos of his Just! series, to the sweet-natured anarchy of The 13-Storey Treehouse, Andy has spent years delighting children at home and abroad.

As the curator of the Powerhouse Materials: Paper exhibit, Andy has written a series of Super Short Stories: miniature entries into his wild and wacky world. From the tale of a stunt performer who awakens to find herself tied to the train tracks, to everything you need to know about feet, these stories are pure Andy.

If these Super Short Stories inspire you to write a bit of chaos of your own, don’t forget to check out the Powerhouse Young Writers' Challenge.

Landscape-format colour lithograph poster in green, orange and black. The field depicts a montage of scenes from the film, arranged around the central motif of a steam train speeding towards a woman tied to the train tracks. — 1/2
Indian cinema poster 'Hunterwali ki Beti'
Object No. 2012/1/2

Portrait-format colour lithograph featuring a collage of black and white photographs tinted in combinations of red, yellow and blue. — 2/2
Indian cinema poster 'Circus Queen'
Object No. 2012/1/4

Fearless Nadia: Stunt Queen

Fearless Nadia woke to find she was bound — hand and foot — to a set of train tracks. And, as if that wasn’t bad enough, she could feel, hear and see a train racing towards her.

This was not the first time Fearless Nadia had been in such a situation — and given that she was a world-famous stunt queen by day and superhero by night, it probably wouldn’t be the last. But it was the third time this week and she had had enough. After a busy week of lion-taming, high-speed car chases, jumping from burning buildings and dodging bullets, she had really been looking forward to a sleep-in.