New Director of Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

 8 May 2013 – Minister for the Arts, George Souris, today announced Rose Hiscock as the new Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences for the next more…

Create beautiful sustainable design at Craft Punk, 23 & 24 March 2013

1 March 2013 – Beautiful design need not be wastefully executed. The Powerhouse Museum’s Craft Punk: Waste Not weekend features two very different designers ready to show you how more…

Next generation of Australian fashion designers on display at the Powerhouse Museum

1 March 2013 – See the next generation of Australian fashion designers on display at the Powerhouse Museum as part of Making it: 20 years of Student Fashion, 8 more…

Meet the curators and discover their favourite objects during our weekend of wonder

The Powerhouse Museum is turning 25 and we’re celebrating with a weekend of wonder on 9 and 10 March.  Come in and discover some of the fascinating stories behind more…

Powerhouse Museum celebrates 25 years with weekend of wonder

The Powerhouse Museum is turning 25 and we’re celebrating with a weekend of wonder on 9 and 10 March. Come in and discover some of the fascinating stories behind more…

Access to Life shows human face of HIV

26 November 2012: A powerful photographic exhibition, Access to Life, which has already moved millions of people around the world through its touching images of AIDS-affected communities, opens tomorrow more…

Powerhouse publishes The Oopsatoreum, Inventions of Henry A. Mintox

29 November 2012 - Behind every enduring innovation lies a vast cemetery of achievement: the world of failed inventions. Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan explores this forgotten world in more…

Cracking summer holiday fun for budding inventors!

19 November 2012 – Discover cracking contraptions and ingenious inventions at the Powerhouse Museum during summer.  Step into the home of Wallace & Gromit and interact with their quirky more…

Stories of great Australian ingenuity on display

19 November 212 – From a marvellous contraption for making mouse-traps to implants that allow profoundly deaf people to hear, Australia is home to some of the world’s most more…

World-famous inventing duo Wallace and Gromit are moving in to the Powerhouse Museum this summer

19 November 2012 – Wallace, the absent-minded inventor and Gromit, his intelligent, faithful dog are moving in to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum this summer when the UK-touring exhibition Wallace & more…



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