Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

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

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Sydney Design Week

Across Sydney12—24 Sep

2024

A film set depicting silver corridors from the interior of a spacecraft.

Program Sydney Design Week 2024

Family Day: Building Worlds

Name: Family Day Building Worlds
Start: 2024-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-14T06:00:00.000Z
Location: Castle Hill

Day Event

Ended 14 Sept 2024

Free

Castle Hill

Explore world building with the Australian Production Design Guild, through imaginative responses to a story brief.

Program

Sketching the World 10am–3pm
Develop your ideas on paper through sketching and story boards with Jacinta Leong.

Making the World 10am–3pm
Build your ideas in 3D by using a range of materials to create scale models with Imogen Ross.

Seeing the World 10am–3pm
Using paper framing (and your own digital device), learn fun ways to re-frame and change the view of the worlds you have created with Eamon D’Arcy.

Mars Rover 1.30pm
Meet our quarter-scale replica of the Curiosity Mars Rover and learn all about its mission from the Castle Hill team.

No Space Is Empty 1.30pm
First Nations creatives in conversation about embodying the radical return to Indigenous world-making practices.
Sold out

TOURS

Collection Highlights Tour 11am, 1pm and 3pm
Explore the museum and discover the stories behind some of your favourites in our collection.

Large and Complex Object Store Open 1.30–3.30pm
Discover some of the biggest objects in our collection with this special viewing opportunity.

Artists

Jacinta Leong is an art director and production designer whose film credits include Shang Chi, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Unbroken and Mad Max: Fury Road. Her art direction has won three ADG Awards and five ADG nominations, and in 2021 she was AACTA Award-nominated as production designer on the feature film 2067.

Imogen Ross is a live performance and event designer, founder of Go Create Art in Illawarra, and NIDA's Sustainability Manager. She creates site-specific stories with community groups and emerging performers. Imogen has led creative performance projects for Shopfront, PYT, Monkey Baa and Sydney Opera House. Her design work has featured at major venues, including Shakespeare’s International Globe in London. She advocates for sustainable theatre practices and facilitates APDGreen Conversations

Eamon D'Arcy is an award-winning event and theatre designer. D'Arcy trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Sydney, the University of Sydney, and the Motley School in London. He worked on the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He was the site designer for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour and is the creative lead on ‘Chasing the Sun’ part of the Australia Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka.