By donating today you will help acquire and conserve objects that have changed Australia as well as the stories of the people who created them. Your donation will help to:

Build the Collection Endowment Fund which delivers us $70,000 a year to acquire new objects. The bigger the fund, the greater the Collection will become.

Acquire specific objects spanning history, science, technology, design, transport, decorative arts and more.

You can also donate a significant object. Thousands of Collection objects have been donated by generous individuals, like yourself.

Not only will your donation help inspire over 55,000 school children who visit the museum each year, you’ll be supporting our after-school mentoring for local primary school kids.

You’ll help us expand our Maths at the Museum program beyond Glebe to Darlington, Redfern and Ultimo to help improve the numeracy of indigenous kids and students from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Your donation also supports the ThinkSpace digital learning precinct teaching hands-on video editing, storytelling and movie-making.

The Powerhouse Museum is undergoing an incredible transformation. We’re creating a major new exhibition gallery, relocating the entrance, opening the shop and cafe to the outside world and placing a dramatic shade installation on the forecourt. Grants from the government and a $1 million bequest have significantly helped this project, but we still need over half-a-million dollars to complete Stage 1.

If all our collection was online, you could access it anywhere in the world. It would open up the Powerhouse Museum to everyone, 24 hours a day. As you can imagine, with over 380,000 collection objects, getting everything online is a time-consuming and intensive task.  Your donation can help put more objects online for research, education and enjoyment.