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

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Three shelves filled with colourful chairs and stools.

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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Three shelves filled with colourful chairs and stools.
Program

MPavilion Chair Commissions

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when
Every Sat—Sun
price
Free
where
Castle Hill

Ten MPavilion Chair Commissions have been generously donated to the Powerhouse Collection by MPavilion and are now on display at Powerhouse Castle Hill.

Created by emerging and established designers, each responds to the architectural form of the year’s MPavilion Architectural Commission.

While all chairs are unique, common concerns have emerged, including sustainability, innovative form and function, integration with landscape and adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now celebrating its first decade, MPavilion continues to create a platform for conversations and connection.

MPavilion is Australia’s leading annual architectural commission, conceived by Naomi Milgrom AC as an initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in 2014. An outstanding architect is commissioned to design a meeting place for the Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne, with seating provided by the MPavilion Chair Commission.

OMA (Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten), Glenn Murcutt AO and Tadao Ando are some of the architectural luminaries commissioned to date. The MPavilion becomes the focal point for a five-month festival of free events, prompting visitors to consider the role of architecture, art and design in responding to important contemporary issues. At the end of the program, it is gifted to the people of Victoria and relocated to become a permanent gathering space for the community.

Clear, wobbly looking stools
1/5
Object No.2023/82/9
Stools designed by Canberra Design Lab for MPavilion
Three yellow stools stacked atop each other diagonally
Three concrete blocks in a row
Thee fence like stools
Squared stool, with circle imprinted atop