A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

Sepia photograph of the Technological Museum and a cow in the foreground

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Colour photograph of red corrugated iron building from a high vantage point

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

View of a mannequin from the waist up wearing a bold, colourful costume with large arch head piece. The headpiece has feathers, streamers, and other found materials sticking out from the main structure.
Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

Artist Xin Liu floating with arm outstretched against a black background. She wears a full-length grey body suit with long sleeves with bare feet and hands.

Sydney Science Festival

Across Sydney10—17 Aug
Shadows cast by the Powerhouse Parramatta exoskeleton on concrete

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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View of a mannequin from the waist up wearing a bold, colourful costume with large arch head piece. The headpiece has feathers, streamers, and other found materials sticking out from the main structure.
Program

Absolutely Queer

Tag iconExhibition
when
Ended 4 Feb 2024
where
Ultimo
‘In the early days it was very risqué to go out on the street dressed up in outrageous costumes, and Mardi Gras gave us the opportunity to do that... Having a crowd of people all dressed up gave us the courage, whereas we wouldn’t have done it on our own.’
Ron Muncaster

Absolutely Queer is an exhibition celebrating contemporary queer creativity for Sydney WorldPride 2023. 

It showcases Sydney’s leading queer creatives who are reshaping attitudes towards their community through their work, creative processes and personal stories, and features costumes, design, artworks, fashion, activism and multimedia.

From installation and performance artists to videogame developers, cartoonists and fashion designers, these creatives form a diverse snapshot of LGBTQIA+ creativity and activism in Sydney.

Exhibition

A blow up archway with an additional blow up sun rising behind it. Attached to the arch are blow up butterflies, stars, the sun, and a love heart with ‘LOVE’ written inside.
A fabulous display of costumes featuring a variety of sparkles, colours, feathers and textures.
A large peach, pink, and orange archway panel with cut out panel. In front a cap and body piece hangs as if levitating.
View of a mannequin from the waist up wearing a bold, colourful costume with large arch head piece. The headpiece has feathers, streamers, and other found materials sticking out from the main structure.
A screen framed by a mirror ball box with three gold trophies sitting on top. On the screen Sexy Galexy performs. Behind the screen are three mannequins in red, blue and silver glitter costumes.
A wall with images, newspaper clippings, and posters collaged together cast with pink light. Mounted on the wall are two documents, a passport and birth certificate, under plexiglas.
Two mannequins wearing pink suits and accessories standing in front of a wall lined with pink glitter streamers. A neon light love heart with an arrow through it and ‘CHAKITA’ hangs on the wall.

Powerhouse Lates

Powerhouse Lates

Powerhouse Collection

A white sleeveless, fitted sequinned dress to which is velcroed a full skirt of white tulle decorated with multicoloured tulle rosettes
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Object No. 96/305/2
'Cotton Blossom' costume by Ron Muncaster
Costume comprising t-shirt, trousers, pair of gloves, pair of overshoes, mask, pair of arm bands, tassel, breastplate, apron skirt, handbag, shoulder piece and oversized headdress.
Lobster costume made of foamcore, chux superwipes, latex, polystyrene foam and flat easyfoam.
White woman dressed as a cut-out paper doll clothed in a matching set of black latex undergarments
Pencil sketch of 'Tom' by Brenton Heath-Kerr

Absolutely Queer x Powerhouse