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 large exhibition space featuring various large spacecrafts.
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

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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A large exhibition space featuring various large spacecrafts.
Program

Space

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when
Ended 4 Feb 2024
where
Ultimo

What is it like to live and work in the weightless environment of space? What do astronauts eat? How do they sleep? And how do they go to the bathroom?

Discover the answers in the Space exhibition, including the Zero Gravity Space Lab where you can experience the illusion of weightlessness. The Space Lab is the highlight of the ‘Living and working in space’ section, which includes a video tour of the International Space Station (ISS) featuring Australian astronauts (and married couple) Dr Andy Thomas and Dr Shannon Walker.

Figure suspended from ceiling wearing white spacesuit and machine.
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Replica Manned Manoeuvring Unit
A medium sized model space craft including small satellite attached to the left side.
Small white and silver spacecraft suspended from ceiling.

Your journey to space begins in the Space Shuttle, a replica of the low orbit spacecraft that took people to the ISS. Here you can find out what it’s like to live and work in a space station.

Take a couple of small steps and you'll be in a habitation module based on a prototype design for the ISS, where you can get answers for all your questions about how astronauts sleep, prepare meals, eat, wash, stay in shape and even go to the loo!

The highlight of your space trip is the Zero Gravity Space Lab, unique to Powerhouse Ultimo in Australia, which uses special effects to create the illusion of weightlessness associated with microgravity. It includes commentary by Dr Andy Thomas about the research work carried out on the ISS and why it is important to people back on Earth.

After experiencing life as an astronaut, explore the many artefacts in the Space gallery including an early rocket made by the pioneering scientist Robert Goddard, images from the ‘space race’, a Soviet flightsuit, a spacesuit and spacecraft emergency equipment and material recovered from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia.

Suspended above you is an amazing collection of satellites and other spacecraft, including one of the world’s largest rocket motors and a model of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1.