Photo of the Day

A new photo from the Powerhouse Museum every day

Monthly Archives: December 2011

Installing Trainspotting

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Trainspottinginstallation

Our Trainspotting 2011 exhibition is being installed in our gallery space ready for launch next week. The exhibition will be on from 15th December and… More

A towering puzzle

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Neg1548 as used in book on pages94-95 Diana Ward

Between 2008 and 2010, photographer David Mist volunteered much of his own time and resources to scan original negatives and transparencies from his archive for… More

Wimble 4: Ink-making men at Blackheath

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95/223/1-24/26 Photographic print, black and white, group portrait of branch managers of F.T. Wimble and Co Ltd, with paper label.. 'Commemorating ...

It is 1946 and George Benjamin Wimble, son of F T Wimble’s founder and now its Managing Director, stands (sixth from left) with branch managers… More

Designers and photographers at work #1

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2009/43/1-8/57 Bruno Benini

Over the last 20 years, the Powerhouse Museum has been building strong graphic design and fashion photography holdings as part of a wider Visual Communication… More

Taking the Museum to the city

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Tsunami, artwork by Janet Echelman, suspended over George Street, Sydney, between the Town Hall and the Woolworths building. Part of the Powerhouse...

This is Janet Echelman’s Tsunami 1.26 artwork that we recently hung above George St during the Art and About festival and is an entrant to… More

Doily 7

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IS-3553-0010

This is the work by Jo Scholar that is currently featured in our Love Lace exhibition. This metal lace doily is a crocheted doily that… More

David Jones for evening wear

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Rousel Studios Photograph Album - Object No: 2001/105/1-1 Photograph Album containing black and white photographs(35) of advertising artwork produ...

When David Jones opened its new Elizabeth Street store in 1927 under the guidance of Charles Lloyd Jones, this large advertising sign blazoned the way.… More

Wild Weather: Flickr group highlight

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This great photograph was taken by one of our Flickr contributors who added this photo to our Wild Weather group on Flickr. This is the… More

La Belle Coeur

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This photograph, one of a set of seven promotional photographic prints and the front cover of a booklet for Mr John’s Elegant Watteau Collection for… More

East Sydney, 1969

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96/44/1-5/4/45/2 Cars infront of advertising signs in Surry Hills Neg 955 used on p 52

This photograph was taken by David Mist for his 1969 book, Sydney: a book of photographs and shows a shop on the corner of Hagrave… More

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About Photo of the Day

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.

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  • Full studio shot of our #meccano shoot today
  • #Meccano Dragline P.2909/267
  • We are starting with #meccano M7 Locomotive # P.2909/260
  • Today's film shoot is at Powerhouse Discovery Centre and we are doing #Meccano #behindthescenes
  • Our 'Making it: 20 years of #studentfashion' exhibition is now open

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