Tag Archives: competition

Trainspotting highly commended: mobile

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Paula Bray

This is one of the highly commended photographs from our Trainspotting exhibition. This was photographed by Xabier Leidenfrost and is featured in our mobile phone… 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

Trainspotting photography competition now open for 2012 entries

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Paula Bray

Bowl

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Paula Bray

LOVE LACE: Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award 2011 exhibition views

This sculpture located on level 2 of our gallery space is one of the entrants in our Love Lace competition/exhibition. This is the work of… More

Trainspotting highly commended image

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Paula Bray

This is one of the highly commended photographs entered in our Trainspotting competition. This features in our Stream trains category and the photographers caption for… More

Big science sleepover

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Paula Bray

These photos were taken at the Big Science Sleepover. It was an extra special night of fun at the museum, where kids aged 5 to… More

Trainspotting exhibition view

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Paula Bray

This is an exhibition view of a section of our Trainspotting exhibition that is currently on in the Museum. Featured in this gallery are 47… More

Trainspotting

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Paula Bray

Trainspotting is a colloquial term for the hobby of observing and recording the numbers of railway locomotives. Our new photography competition has been given this… 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.