Tag Archives: blue

Flickr group highlight: visitor photograph

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Paula Bray

This photograph was taken by one of our visitors to the Museum. We love to share images that have been added to our ‘Me and… More

Men in the sky

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Iwona Hetherington

Delivery of 'Bowl' by Michael Snape (L4812/2-1) for Love Lace exhibition. Detail of human figure shapes against blue sky.

What we see in this image is a detail of the Bowl, a water jet-cut steel sculpture by an Australian artist Michael Snape. Michael was one… More

Making First Day Wonder

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Paula Bray

This photograph shows the hands of Alice Vokac working on her lace artwork for the Love Lace exhibition. She is in the process of making… More

Wild weather: Flickr group highlight

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Paula Bray

This great photograph titled ‘Blue lightning’ was taken by one of the contributing members to our Wild weather group on Flickr. It was taken in… More

Time to go swimming

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Paula Bray

In August 2008 we opened an exhibition titled ‘Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia’. This exhibition looked at how modernism transformed life… More

Where does all the plastic go?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Paula Bray

Well a very small part is recycled into art. This image shows some of the detail from a wall work called ‘Chasm’ made out of… More

Water projection

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Paula Bray

This is a projection onto the floor of our gallery in our newly refurbished Ecologic exhibition. Projected in an oval shape on the floor are… More

Modern Times: Flickr group highlight

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Paula Bray

This art deco cinema on the Northern Beaches of Sydney has been photographed by one of our Flickr members from our Modern Times group that… More

Wild weather: Flickr group highlight

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Paula Bray

This incredible photo was taken by one of the members in our Wild weather group on Flickr. According to the location on Flickr this pending… More

Wild weather: Flickr group highlight

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Paula Bray

This amazing image showing a tornado in Indonesia has been added to our new group on Flickr dedicated to the wild weather of this world.… 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.