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

Postcard photo of bridge and green surroundings

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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Postcard photo of bridge and green surroundings
Program

Regional Stakeholder Forum 2023

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when
Ended 30 Nov 2023
where
Ultimo

This free annual forum is an opportunity for Regional and Western Sydney museums to network, share stories and be inspired by current topics relevant to the regional collecting sector. The forum is held in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW and Regional Arts NSW.

This year’s forum presentations highlight the efforts of regional museums to achieve sustainability through focusing on various strategies: whether that be through best practice collection management, fundraising, engaging museum volunteers, or working on sustainable collection practices.

Program

START TIME 9am

SESSIONS 1–3 9.20am
An on-site forum ticket includes the full-day's schedule and an elective topic for the afternoon breakout session.

BREAKOUT SESSION 2–2.30pm
For those attending on-site, please select only one of the four breakout sessions listed below:

1. Powerhouse Workshop Tour
Join Powerhouse production workshop manager Penny Angrick for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Powerhouse workshop. Angrick will give insight into how the workshop teams prepare, build and install exhibitions. She will discuss different considerations around materials, appropriate exhibition tools and techniques used in exhibition construction.

2. Invisible Mannequins
There is always a challenge finding mannequins to mount historical dress. In this presentation, Suzanne Chee will explain how to make an invisible mannequin using Fosshape, a unique felt-like fabric that can be used to create your own mannequins for displaying garments and fashion accessories.

3. 1001 Remarkable Objects Exhibition Tour
Join Powerhouse curator Eva Czernis-Ryl for a 30-minute tour of 1001 Remarkable Objects, a new exhibition, led by Leo Schofield AM. This major exhibition features 25 individual rooms, presenting an unexpected juxtaposition of collection objects that will lead us on a journey across time and memory.

4. A Line A Web A World Exhibition Tour
Join Powerhouse senior exhibition designer, Hugh O’Connor for a 30-minute tour of the exhibition A Line A Web A World. This exhibition is the first in-depth look at drawings in the Powerhouse Collection and will focus on the question of why we draw. O’Connor will provide an overview of his exhibition design.

Presented in partnership with

Australian landscape in oils on gum leaf. Subject of sea and headland, figure on shoreline.
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Object No. A6069
'Clifton' Australian landscape painted on eucalyptus leaf with oils c. 1866–1900
Postcard photo of bridge and green surroundings
Landscape of a small bridge with sheep on the hill with their shepherd