Monthly Archives: March 2011

Ploughing Matches

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Paula Bray

85/1284-70 Glass negative, full plate, 'Ploughing Match', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

In the 1870s and 1880s one of the most popular ways Australian farmers got together was with ploughing matches or competitions between ploughmen. They were… More

Suyunyan Watchtower: then and now

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Paula Bray

Suyunyan Watchtower in the Summer Palace 2

Before the ceremony

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Iwona Hetherington

Buddhist Monks closing ceremony and mandela destruction on the 8/12/09 Geshe Tenzin Demchok with umbrella walking along Camp Cove beach to perform...

Tibetan monks from the Dakpa Khangtsen Drepung Loseling monastery in the South Indian state of Karnataka spent eleven days at the Powerhouse Museum in December… More

Queen of the Night

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph, from the studio of celebrity milliner Mr John of New York, shows a model wearing a jeweled and plumed tiara titled Queen of… More

A man on the wall

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Iwona Hetherington

This photograph was taken in May 2006 by our photographer Jean – Francois Lanzarone. Jean-Francois went to China to take photographs for the Great Wall… More

Earth Hour: switch off your lights

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Paula Bray

2007/206/1 Light globe, carbon filament, Robertson, glass / carbon / metal, made by General Electric Company Ltd, London, England, 1930-1935, used ...

Today is Earth Hour and at 8:30pm lights all around the world will be switched off to support this initiative. So remember to switch off… More

The importance of fencing

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Paula Bray

At first fencing in Australia was only used for yards and paddocks around homesteads, to protect crops and prevent indiscriminate breeding of bulls and stallions.… More

Hand shearing

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Paula Bray

The technique of Australian hand shearing gradually developed from the 1830s using the old English method of cutting the flank with hand shears in a… More

Albion Place, Sydney

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

Recently the Powerhouse Museum contributed to China Heart , an interactive multi-platform game for smartphones and the web that is part love story, part mystery.… More

Wulong Ting: then and now

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Paula Bray

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.