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

Steam Revolution exhibition space showing a locomotive and other objects from the collection
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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Steam Revolution exhibition space showing a locomotive and other objects from the collection
Program

Steam Revolution

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when
Ended 4 Feb 2024
where
Ultimo

Steam Revolution shows how steam has touched the lives of millions.

For more than 200 years, steam did almost everything: it pumped water, powered factories, and drove ships across oceans and ploughs through fields. These days steam turbines still provide 90 per cent of our electricity.

Learn how steam engines developed, what they did and how they changed the world in this exhibition featuring hands-on displays, old boilers, videos and 12 steam engines.

Please note on Tuesdays no steam operations take place.

A large horizontal stationary steam engine made of brown metal. A white insulated pipe on the right connects to a boiler and the belt on the left.
A large steam ploughing engine in a green field with two people on board.
A large dark green locomotive with gold and black viaducts. The wheel caps and front of the locomotive are painted red.
Stationary shiny black locomotive with dark green carriages outside a large brick building with schoolgirls in uniform looking on.
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Object No. 88/4
Steam locomotive No. 3265
Black and white photo of five small black locomotives on a section of Sydney Harbour Bridge with cargo ship on the water below.
Small silver metal engine model with propeller on the right side bolted to a bench
Old black steel locomotive on a rail line pulling several carriages