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
Pop art collage with many bright colours and overlapping graphics.

Powerhouse Lane

Parramatta Lanes23—26 Oct
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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Visit

Castle Hill

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2 Green Road, Castle Hill NSW 2154
Time iconOpen Weekends 10am–4pm
OPEN WEEKENDS 10AM–4PM Located on Dharug land. A storehouse for the Powerhouse Collection supporting research and conservation, presenting exhibitions and programs.

Castle Hill Events

Group Talks

Group Talks

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People standing in front of a plan inside a storage area.

Collection Conversations Tours

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Mars Rover robot surrounded by kids

Mars Rover Demonstration

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A tall and shorter human figures walk through the gigantic storage house, to find a car behind the wall in a white room.

Mystery Object Challenge

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An adult and child looking outside a large scale floor to ceiling window.

Collection Highlights Tour

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Groups of families, children, parents and prams, sitting outside the new Castle Hill building.

Family Day

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Yellow triangle seat supported by 3 balloon legs in green, pink and blue.
School Holidays

Materials and Chair Design

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A small car-shaped blue robot with blue sensor eyes and four red headlights sits on a dark grey background.
School Holidays

Family mBot Robots

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Minecraft characters standing in a brick room.
School Holidays

Family Minecraft Chemistry Explorer

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Two Minecraft characters stand in a white brick and glass room, with chemistry lab equipment and balloons behind them.
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Minecraft Chemistry Discovery

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Two young children touch their hands to a big purple circle, that illuminates are dark room.

Vacation Care

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Two Minecraft characters stand in front of a green and grey brick wall with wooden trapdoors, as blue and white fireworks explode around them.
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Minecraft Creative Builders

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Fabric and Paper with Nicole Barakat
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Fabric and Paper with Nicole Barakat

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Two Minecraft characters stand on a wooden platform above a lava stream. One character is holding a sword and the other is holding a bow and arrow.
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Minecraft Play

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Sculptures in exhibition.
School Holidays

Clay with Sebastian Conti

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Corner shop that dates back to 1909.

Regional Stakeholder Forum 2024

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Plan Your Visit

Castle Hill Map

Powerhouse Castle Hill is located on Dharug land.
2 Green Road, Castle Hill NSW 2154

Weekend Visitors Parking via 2 Green Road entrance
Pedestrians and Couriers via 172 Showground Road entrance
Buses and Trucks via Windsor gate entrance

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Research and Conservation

Powerhouse Castle Hill now is the storehouse for the Powerhouse Collection supporting research and conservation, presenting exhibitions and programs.

For the first time in the museums 140 year history the entire collection, of more than half a million objects of national and international significance, will be housed in the one location.

Powerhouse Collection

Powerhouse is custodian to more than half a million objects of national and international significance. The Powerhouse Collection is considered one of the finest and most diverse collections in the world.

It includes the Powerhouse Archives comprised of hundreds of Collected Archives and the Powerhouse Institutional Archives, which date from 1880.

'To this end it is intended to collect together typical collections of all materials of economic value belonging to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, from raw materials through the various stages of manufacture to the final product or finished article ready to use'

J. H Maiden, Museum’s Curator and Secretary, Annual report 1882

Powerhouse Castle Hill Expansion

Powerhouse Castle Hill has been delivered through a partnership between Create NSW, NSW Public Works and the Powerhouse. Designed by Lahznimmo Architects and built by Taylor Construction.

A row of four windows set at a 45 degree angle in the metal clad wall of a building.
A huge concrete space with many columns. At the far end is a folding door.
Eucalyptus trees in front of a large building with floor-to-ceiling windows on the ground floor.

Powerhouse Renewal

Powerhouse museum is delivering a transformative $1.2 billion renewal program across its four sites.

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Powerhouse Castle Hill Expansion

Powerhouse commissioned architectural photographer Rory Gardiner to create a series of images of the expansion of Powerhouse Castle Hill. A new state-of-the-art building houses Powerhouse collections and supports research, conservation and programs.

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