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Powerhouse Museum - Experimentations

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Exoskeleton

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Sydney Design Week

Sydney Design Week

Across Sydney12—24 Sep

1988

A man wearing all black is standing in front of a science based installation.

Experimentations

Exhibition

Ended 4 Feb 2024

Ultimo

Powerhouse Ultimo

500 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007

Experimentations and experimenting are often triggered by questions about our everyday experience: how does a battery work? What is lightning?

Experimentations shows how scientific and technological breakthroughs answered questions like these and changed many of our ideas about everyday phenomena.

In this exhibition YOU become the scientist, engineer, thinker, artist and inventor.

Discover marvellous machines, be creative in the Tinkering Zone, get zapped in the electric chair, and play with sound and light waves.

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Exhibition Gallery

A man wearing all black is standing in front of a science based installation.

Two children interact with the Experimentations exhibition. Behind them is a front of an old style red fire truck.

Exhibition space with yellow walls, dark grey carpet and a motorcycle at back right. In the foreground a small enclosure has cables attached to a central core.

A plasma ball with blue squiggles inside a in glass case in front of an exhibition label

A large wooden table and stools in an exhibition space. On the far wall there is a board with a range of tools stuck to it.

An interactive periodic table is attached to an orange wall. There is explanatory text next to the table.

A yellow wall with a life size illustration of Margaret Hamilton, standing beside a long list of code.