Trainspotting: the Powerhouse Museum Photo Competition 2012
An exhibition featuring 54 photographs, comprising the winners and highly commended entries, from this year’s International Trainspotting Photographic Competition. 

Now in its third year, the international competition celebrates the railway industry and the Museum’s extensive rail and steam collection. 

It offers cash prizes across six categories including Steam trains; Diesel electric or electric trains or trams; Railway infrastructure; Trainspotting; People in railway; and Mobile phone; along with an overall winner. 

This year’s competition attracted over 3,600 entries from around the world. From casual observers to passionate railway photographers, the impressive range of entries showcased a variety of styles and interests. 

From documenting steam locomotives in motion to works that explore the social experience of train travel, each photograph tells a very unique story about a country’s place in time and its people.  more..

Newcastle Museum 
6 March - 29 April 2013

The Tinytoreum: Gunna the Goanna’s Big Ideas
This exhibition of tiny treasures and big ideas takes visitors on a journey through the imaginary world of Gunna the Goanna and his friends in Shaggy Gully. With words and illustrations by award-winning team Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, the exhibition plays with scale and size, the familiar and unfamiliar, and the practical and fantastical, in a richly visual and thought provoking way that will inspire children and adults alike. 

The Tinytoreum is the second in a series of collection-based exhibitions for families featuring the work of Australian authors and artists. If you are interested, please contact Joanne Delzoppo, Project Manager, (02) 9217 0239 or joanned@phm.gov.au

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This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia 

Frock stars
From behind-the-scenes dramas to catwalk divas, find out everything you ever wanted to know about one of Australia’s most dazzling industry-only fashion events in Frock stars. Experience what it’s like to be in the front row, see a catwalk display of top Australian designers, enjoy the buzz of backstage, and explore the creative process of putting together a collection. more..

Image: 86233891, Stefan Gosatti / Getty Images Entertainment

Teachers notes for travelling exhibition

Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
17 February - 22 April 2012

Albury Art Gallery and Library Museum
11 May - 24 June 2012

Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
1 September - 21 October 2012

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
23 November 2012 - 20 January 2013

Geo Centre Broken Hill
2 February - 17 June 2013

Western Australian Museum
19 October 2013 - 26 January 2014

Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville
24 February - 1 June 2014

Contact:  Julia Carroll, Project Manager on 02 9217 0298 or email: juliac@phm.gov.au

Exhibition Partner:
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This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia 

Living in a Sensory World:  Stories from people who are blind or have low vision.
This exciting exhibition is a joint presentation between the Powerhouse Museum and Vision Australia.
Today, Australians with blindness or low vision participate in every aspect of community life, thanks to developments in education and training, technology, legislation and social change over the past 140 years.
This exhibition gives visitors an understanding of the world of the blindness and low vision community and celebrates their achievements. It features objects from Vision Australia’s heritage collection, compelling accounts and examples of new technologies that are increasing the independence of thousands of Australians.
The exhibition received federal support though Visions of Australia development and travelling funds. more..

Newcastle Regional Museum
1November 2011- 29 January 2012

Melbourne Museum
 8 August - 28 October 2012

Sovereign Hill Museum, Ballarat
14 November 2012- 4 February 2013

Yarra Ranges Regional Gallery
22 February – 14 April 2013

Museum of the Riverina
10 May -21 July 2013

Albury City Museum
Tbc 2013

Noosa Regional Gallery
5 February - 24 March 2014

Fore more information please contact Ross Clendinning ross@phm.gov.au

Winning sky photos: the David Malin Awards 2012
With modern equipment, amateur astronomers are taking increasingly spectacular images of the sky. In this exhibition visitors can view the winners and selected entries in an astrophotography competition open to amateur astronomers and photographers from around Australia.

Sydney Observatory
17 August 2012 - 29 Ocober 2012 

Museum of Tropical Queensland
9 November 2012 - 9 December 2012 

Scienceworks, Melbourne
20 December 2012 - 3 February 2013 

The Science Centre & Planetarium, Wollongong
11 February 2013 - 24 March 2013 

Perth Observatory
5 April - 19 May 2013 

South Australian Museum, Adelaide
31 May - 7 July 2013 

image: 'Melbourne Moon', by Phil Hart, is the overall winner of the 2012 Malin Astrophotography Awards. It was entered in the Solar System: Wide-Field category. © Phil Hart

contact Julia Carroll, Project Manager on 02 9217 0298 or email: juliac@phm.gov.au