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

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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
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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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Program

National Sorry Day: Steps for the Stolen

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when
Ended 26 May 2016
where
Ultimo

On National Sorry Day 2016, Murrawarri choreographer and performer Tammi Gissell paid tribute to Australia’s Stolen Generations. Working within the confines of Evidence: Brook Andrew exhibition, Tammi performed a durational movement meditation, based on traditional Aboriginal dance vocabularies, with a focus on cultural memory and healing.

Artist

Tammi Gissell was born literally ‘out the Back of Bourke’, Tammi proudly descends from the Murruwarri nation of North-Western New South Wales. She is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, poetess and performance theory scholar holding a Bachelor of Performance: Theory and Practice (Honours) from the University of Western Sydney (UWS); inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society in 2004; graduating Deans’ Medalist and Reconciliation Scholar in 2005. Her Honours Degree research into sacred gesture and posture upon the formation of body identity made the UWS Deans’ Honour Roll again in 2006. From 2007 to 2011 she was Course Coordinator at NAISDA Dance College. In 2011, she held residency at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) and was commissioned to write for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Since then she has completed choreographic commissions for OCHRE Dance Company (Western Australia) and Canberra Dance Theatre for the National Gallery.

Tammi has lectured widely including the University of Newcastle, Queensland University of Technology, the Victorian College of the Arts and has presented research to the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, New York. She was also a panelist at the 2012 BlakDance forum and the 2013 National Dance Forum. In November 2013 she appeared at the 8th annual Tsai Jui-Yueh International Dance Festival, Taiwan and the Kowhiti Symposium of Indigenous Dance, New Zealand.