17 November 2011, Sydney: Harry Potter™: The Exhibition, which showcases hundreds of original film artefacts from one of the most loved and successful film series of all-time, opens in more…
SYDNEY– 28 October 2011 – This week, twenty-three shipping crates containing elements of the highly anticipated Harry Potter: The Exhibition, arrived by ship to Sydney. Each massive shipping container holds more…
September 2011
The first exhibition about Australia’s most loved and successful children’s entertainers, The Wiggles, has been developed by the Powerhouse Museum to mark an amazing 20-year journey. The exhibition more…
13 October 2011: For the first time in Australia, ancient and contemporary Korean works come together in the Spirit of jang-in: treasures of Korean metal craft opening at the more…
11 October 2011: There are less than six weeks to go until the highly anticipated Harry Potter™: The Exhibition opens in Sydney for its exclusive Australian run at the more…
31 August 2011: One of the Powerhouse Museum’s most treasured objects, the magnificent 1901 Governor-General’s carriage, is now being publicly exhibited for the first time at Trainworks, Thirlmere, in more…
Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, 16 August 2011: Today, Daryl Maguire MP, the local member for Wagga Wagga, launches the Australian Dress Register – a new, collaborative, online more…
Sydney, 19 July 2011: Today, Harry Potter film star Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom throughout the film series, was joined by hundreds of Harry Potter fans at the more…
Sydney, 8 July, 2011 – Harry Potter fans will soon get the chance to step inside the famous wizard’s magical world with Harry Potter: The Exhibition, opening at the more…
Thursday 28 July 2011: American sculptor, Anne Mondro, is the winner of the third Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award announced today at the Museum by Director, Dr Dawn Casey. Detroit’s Shadow is a life-sized crocheted reproduction of a 1916 Model N Ford engine in steel and copper wire. Using a traditional technique with a hook and single steel wire, Mondro spent over 300 hours creating this amazing lace work. Her work is a tribute to her family who were employed in Detroit’s car industry for over 60 years, doing ‘invisible’ work as the anonymous operators on production lines.
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Thursday 28 July 2011: A gigantic aerial net installation will be a spectacular vision suspended high above the heart of the city from 23 September to 23 October 2011 for Art & About Sydney and funded by the City of Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum.
The colourful, 24 metre wide lace work one of the works from the Powerhouse Museum’s new Love Lace exhibition, will be installed 13 metres above George Street at the Sydney Town Hall. Gently pulsing in the wind, this inspirational piece is the largest of the works in the Love Lace exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum and a spectacular centrepiece for the 10th annual Art & About Sydney.
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Thursday 28 July 2011: A love of letters is at the heart of the work by this year’s winner of the prestigious Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship, presented today by the Powerhouse Museum and Arts NSW in partnership with the British Council. Emerging typeface designer and font maker, David Foster intends to use his $18,000 scholarship to study at the highly respected Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag, The Netherlands – one of a few institutions in the world that offers a specialised typography program.
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From 30 July 2011 the Powerhouse Museum will stage a spectacular, ground-breaking exhibition of contemporary lace works by artists and designers from around the world that showcases lace design in ways never before seen or ever imagined. Around 130 lace works by 134 artists from 20 countries will feature in Love Lace, which will open for Sydney Design 2011. The exhibition is drawn from finalists of the Powerhouse Museum’s third International Lace Award that attracted an outstanding field of 700 entries globally.
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March 2011: Media Backgrounder on a new, federally-funded education and research project Pathways to Space featuring a spectacular Mars research exhibit where experimental Mars rovers operate, launched at the Powerhouse Museum by the Honourable Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. more…
A new, federally-funded education and research project Pathways to Space featuring a spectacular Mars research exhibit where experimental Mars rovers will operate, was launched today at the Powerhouse Museum by the Honourable Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. more…
ABBAWORLD, the exhibition about the 70s global pop sensation ABBA whose music almost four decades on continues to attract a new generation of fans, has now been extended at the Powerhouse Museum until 26 June 2011. more…
For the April school holiday (9-26 April), the Powerhouse Museum has teamed up with one of Australia’s funniest and best-loved children’s authors Morris Gleitzman to uncover entertaining anecdotes about prized Museum objects. There is a twist however, visitors need to be armed with a special torch and map to reveal Gleitzman’s invisible words on the walls of the Museum near selected objects! more…
The Powerhouse Museum’s popular exhibition The 80s are back, which has been seen by more than 250,000 visitors over the past 14 months, is closing on Sunday 27 March. more…
7 March 2011: Last chance to see the Powerhouse Museum’s popular exhibition The 80s are back which closes on 27 March 2011. See highlights of the exhibition… more…
The Powerhouse Museum will open three new exhibitions in February and March 2011, shining the spotlight on this year’s award-winning engineering projects, 2010’s most outstanding design and technology Higher School Certificate (HSC) projects, and the work of Sydney’s most recent top fashion graduates. more…
February 2011: Three new exhibitions showcasing excellence in engineering, student design and fashion will open at the Powerhouse Museum in February and March 2011. more…
20 January 2011: Korea’s first astronaut, Dr Yi Soyeon, visits Sydney on 28 January 2011 to give an exclusive talk at the Powerhouse Museum about her first space mission. more…
A one-off concert event celebrating one of the greatest 70s pop groups, ABBA, will be held at the Powerhouse Museum on Thursday 16 December to mark the launch of the new ABBA exhibition that opens to Sydney audiences at the Museum on Friday 17 December. more…
16 November 2010 – a new display opening at the Powerhouse Museum on 26 November explores the consumer power harnessed over 50 years through the Australian Consumers’ Association and its public face, Choice. more…
17 November 2010 – Your mission this summer, should you choose to accept it, will be found at the Powerhouse Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Top secret: licence to spy, where you can go undercover and delve into the world of spies and espionage!
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After more than 30 years since ABBA’s first live performance in Australia at the Sydney Showgrounds in Moore Park on that wet evening of 3 March 1977, ABBA will return to Sydney in the first official exhibition about the 1970s global pop sensation. The exhibition, ABBAWORLD, is showing exclusively in Sydney at the Powerhouse Museum from 17 December 2010. more…
18 October 2010 – The Powerhouse Museum today opened worldwide entry to its second international Trainspotting photo competition, which will award cash prizes to the sum of AU$17,000 and the opportunity to be exhibited in a major photographic exhibition at the Museum in 2011. more…
6 October 2010: The Powerhouse Museum’s permanent exhibition EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future will reopen on 30 October 2010 with a new, in-depth focus on climate change. more…
15 September 2010: Finalists of the Powerhouse Museum’s International Lace Award launched in late 2009 have been chosen by five international and Australian judges from an outstanding field of 700 entries. A major international exhibition of over 135 spectacular designs from 22 countries around the globe will be staged at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, in July 2011 when the final cash prize winners will also be announced. more…
28 September 2010 – Journey through the wonderful world of taste with hands-on family workshops at the Powerhouse Museum on Sunday 17 October, as part of the Crave Sydney International Food Festival’s Week of Tastes. more…
7 September 2010 – During the Spring school holidays join the Powerhouse Museum’s mascot Cogs and discover the wonderful world of Chemistry! Plus there’s a range of creative workshops on offer for all ages and budding young animators can enjoy hands-on activities as part of the Sydney International Animation Festival 2010. more…
7 September 2010 – These school holidays Sydney Observatory in The Rocks is hosting a great day and night program for all ages, including planetarium sessions, dome tours and spectacular programs in the 3-D Space Theatre, plus a space-cadet party day, family twilight pizza nights and hands-on astronomy workshops. more…
17 August 2010 – AC/DC Australia’s Family Jewels, a new exhibition celebrating the history, music, performance and creativity of one of the world’s greatest Rock’n’Roll bands, opens at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on 11 September 2010.
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Sunday 5 September: NSW Premier Kristina Keneally today announced plans for a major exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, about the Australian success story and international entertainment phenomenon, The Wiggles. more…
A gaming headset that reads brain signals and facial expressions, a pocket-size ultrasound system, a device that stores a heart during transit before heart transplant surgery, and a light tanker used as a fire reconnaissance vehicle in bushfires, are amongst the top designs showing in the 2010 Australian International Design Awards exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. more…
Creative, street-savvy designers will be given the opportunity to elevate the humble bike rack into a glorious work of urban art, as part of an Australia-wide design competition launched today by the Powerhouse Museum and the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (RTA). more…
The 2010 winner of the Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship, presented by the Powerhouse Museum and Arts NSW in partnership with the British Council, was announced at the launch of Sydney Design on Friday 30 July by Powerhouse Museum Director, Dr Dawn Casey. Emerging industrial designer Tasman Munro was awarded $18,000 to fund a tailored program of professional development overseas. more…
One of Australia’s key annual design events, Sydney Design, kicks off in less than two weeks with a city-wide program of more than 70 events, across 16 days in over 25 venues from 31 July to 15 August. more…
27 May 2010 – Come along to the Powerhouse Museum over the June long weekend (12-14 June) for two entertaining and fun-filled events as part of the Museum’s time-travelling trip back to the 1980s.
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A new children’s exhibition The Tinytoreum featuring miniature museum treasures bought to life with charming children’s tales and illustrations by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (best known for their Shaggy Gully picture books) inspires a range of exciting children’s shows, creative activities and a tour with an emphasis on tiny things for the July school holidays (3-18 July). more…
At the Powerhouse Museum these July school holidays, children of all ages can enjoy the adventures of “Gunna the goanna”, the inventive, fictional animal character that is central to a new exhibition, The Tinytoreum, which shows tiny Museum treasures that inspired the tales of “Gunna”. more…
Sydney Design 2010 (SD10) will host one if its most dynamic festival programs in 14 years with a city-wide program of more than 70 events and activities supported by an engaging theme ‘tell us a story’. more…
11 May 2010 – A selection of 47 winning and highly commended photographs from 2,500 entries received to the Powerhouse’s recent international photographic competition Trainspotting, will go on display in a new exhibition at the Museum from 12 May. more…
11 May 2010 – A new exhibition exploring the art of fashion photography will open at the Powerhouse Museum on July 31 as part of Sydney Design 10. Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography explores the creative processes involved in styling, crafting and designing powerful eye-catching fashion photographs. more…
8 April 2010 – From scooters to ski pants, white lipstick to winkle pickers, find out what Mods watched, wore and rode at a special 80s Mod revival at the Powerhouse Museum on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 May. more…
26 March 2010 – From 22 April 2010 the Powerhouse Museum is taking visitors inside Rosemount Australian Fashion Week at the first exhibition to showcase what takes place at one of Australia’s most dazzling industry-only fashion events, celebrating its 15th anniversary this May. more…
25 February 2010 – The Powerhouse Museum and IMG Fashion announce an exciting collaborative project celebrating 15 years of Rosemount Australian Fashion Week this year. Frock stars: Inside Australian Fashion Week explores what happens inside and backstage at one of the most ‘talked about’ Australian events of the year. more…
10 February 2010 – War and revolution, disasters and displacement, love and loss are the key themes permeating the work of this year’s talented group of fashion graduates on display from 27 February as part of the Powerhouse Museum’s Student Fashion exhibition. more…
3 February 2010 – The world’s longest continuous pipe, a robotic clarinet player, and a scientific analyzer measuring the colour and grade of opals are among six winning engineering projects from New South Wales in 2009, on show from today at the Powerhouse Museum. more…
27 January 2010 – Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to enter Trainspotting: the Powerhouse Museum Photo Competition 2010 for a chance to win AUD$5,000 and be exhibited in the Powerhouse! more…
14 January 2010 – Relive the golden age of video gaming plus discover how today’s games are designed and developed during a weekend of gaming fun at the Powerhouse Museum, 29 – 31 January, in conjunction with the latest exhibition The 80s are back. more…
23 November 2009 – The Powerhouse Museum is bringing back the 80s with a spectacular exhibition that will reveal the good and the bad about the decade vividly remembered for its over the top excess. The 80s are back will explore Australian life and popular culture in the 1980s, remembering the styles, trends and subcultures, and how they found expression in fashion, design, music, film and television. more…
4 November 2009 – A new iPhone application developed by tech start-up MOB, in collaboration with the Powerhouse Museum, is allowing people to ‘see’ historical Sydney around them as they move through the city by simply using the camera on their phone. more…
20 September 2009 – The 108 year old Locomotive 3265 will steam again this Sunday 20 September hauling 600 passengers from Central Station, after an eleven year restoration project by the Powerhouse Museum. more…
13 August 2009 – A new installation by leading Australian artist Craig Walsh is taking shape inside the Powerhouse Museum. Artefact H10515 is an abstract life form designed to disrupt and expand visitor expectations of a museum and its collections, evoking intrigue and contemplation. more…
24 July 2009 – The Powerhouse Museum will take visitors on a breathtaking journey through our galaxy and beyond with From Earth to the Universe, an exhibition featuring extraordinary astronomical images. more…
2 July 2009 – Australia’s longest-running design festival Sydney Design 09 celebrates local and international design with a diverse program of more than 70 events running 1 to 16 August 2009 more…
2 July 2009 – The world’s first power-heated wetsuit is one of the outstanding examples of design and innovation from the 2009 Australian International Design Awards on display at the Powerhouse Museum. more…
2 July 2009 – Sydney Design 09 is set to challenge our perceptions of sustainability through a unique creative platform and restaurant Eat Green Design, presented by the Powerhouse Museum in partnership with Collaborate. more…
26 June 2009 – The Powerhouse Museum is commemorating the passing of king of pop Michael Jackson with a small display of memorabilia as well as a visitor condolence book more…
2 June 2009 – Discover the weird and wonderful in The Odditoreum, a new display that features a selection of oddities and curiosities from the deep vaults of the Museum’s collection. more…
27 April 2009 – The Powerhouse Museum has acquired the archive of fashion photographer Bruno Benini with assistance from the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account. more…
3 February 2009 – A small display of contemporary Japanese fashion showcasing garments designed by Issey Miyake, Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto, will go on show at the Powerhouse Museum. more…
