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

A man wearing all black is standing in front of a science based installation.
Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Pop art collage with many bright colours and overlapping graphics.

Powerhouse Lane

Parramatta Lanes23—26 Oct
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

Slider thumb1988
A man wearing all black is standing in front of a science based installation.
Program

Experimentations

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when
Ended 4 Feb 2024
where
Ultimo

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.

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.
The plasma ball from the 1988 opening.