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

Lang Walker Family Academy

Foundation Donor – Powerhouse Parramatta

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

2023

Stories

Lang Walker Family Academy

Foundation Donor – Powerhouse Parramatta

‘We are passionate about investing in the education of our future generations in Western Sydney and this academy will deliver the very best in science, technology, engineering and maths. The Lang Walker Family Academy will empower students with the skills they need to succeed in the high tech 21st century job market. School camps and excursions will be taken to a whole new level at the Academy, as our live-in campus enables students to immerse themselves in STEM education and culture, in one of the world’s best museums.’

Lang Walker, Founder, Walker Corporation

The Walker Family Foundation’s investment in Powerhouse Parramatta is an extraordinary commitment to driving generational change for young people in Western Sydney and regional NSW by elevating Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) learning.

The Foundation’s funding for the Lang Walker Family Academy delivers a much-needed boost for 10,000 students’ education and career opportunities by giving them access to a world-first immersive STEM learning experience at the museum and enhanced in-school programming.

In the lead-up to Powerhouse Parramatta opening in 2026, the Lang Walker Family Academy has already created new learning pathways through the Lang Walker Family Academy In-Schools Program, which began in 2022. Students at schools in the Blacktown, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Bankstown, Penrith and Parramatta LGAs now have unprecedented access to industry-leading ideas, experts and technologies from the fields of science, engineering and business.

The 2023 Lang Walker Family Academy In-Schools Program is connecting high school students from Western Sydney and regional NSW with the International Space Station through Powerhouse: Future Space. The program challenges them to apply NASA-inspired design thinking strategies while developing their own experiments, then present their best ideas in a competitive pitch judged by a committee of specialists at the Sydney Science Festival. The winning plan will be realised through ground tests and experiments on the International Space Station at the beginning of 2024.