Monthly Archives: March 2009

Unloading boat, Wollal eclipse expedition, Western Australia, 1922

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Paula Bray

P3549-193 Photograph, expedition unloading boat, black and white print, photographer unknown, Wallal, Western Australia, Australia, 1922, used by S...

On the 21 September 1922 an eclipse of the sun passed across the centre of Australia providing optimum conditions for observations. This photograph was taken… More

Hint

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Paula Bray

Hint, originally uploaded by Puddles. One of the members in our Modern Times group on Flickr took this interesting image of the Sydney Opera House.… More

Portrait of small barefoot boy on a wooden ladder

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Paula Bray

Portrait of small barefoot boy on a wooden ladder, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection. This gorgeous image of a small boy on a ladder… More

Earth Hour: switch off your lights

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Paula Bray

Claudia Bruhein and x in front of the Phiball light by Andrew Last

Today you have a choice of participating in Earth Hour , the global effort of voting against climate change, by switching off all your lights… More

500th post for Photo of the Day

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Paula Bray

Exterior shot around the Powerhouse Museum.

This is the 500th post for Photo of the Day and although this is not the most exciting image it seems appropriate plus it was… More

Waiting for the transit of Venus

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Paula Bray

P3548-804 Photographic glass plate negative, exterior showing men by observation buildings, photographer unknown, Sydney Observatory, Sydney, New S...

On the 24th of November 1874 a group of Sydney astronomers landed their pre-fabricated observatory, tents, instruments, bricks and cement at Two-Fold Bay in New… More

Behind-the-scenes: Inspired

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Paula Bray

Job number: 05/0163 Installation of "Inspired" Gallery
Date of Photography: Sept, Oct 2005

This image was taken during the installation of the exhibition Inspired! Design across time. Inspired highlights the different ways designers, makers, industries and entrepreneurs work… More

Then and now: The Ebor Falls, New England

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Paula Bray

No known copyright restrictions Our latest batch uploaded to the Commons project on Flickr included 15 images from the Tyrrell photographic collection. We still have… More

Surry Hills signs

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Paula Bray

96/44/1-5/4/12/3 Advertising signs in Surry Hills. This image is similar to the one used in the book

This is another great image from the David Mist photographic archive that we are posting on Photo of the Day. David has kindly allowed us… More

What’s in there

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Paula Bray

A behind-the-scenes image showing one of our conservators working on the Strasburg Clock model. This clock model has been in the collection for over a… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.