Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2025

Program

Summer School Holidays 2025

Name: Summer School Holidays 2025
Start: 2025-12-19T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-02-01T05:00:00.000Z
Location: Across Sydney

Ended 1 Feb 2026

Across Sydney

The Powerhouse Summer School Holiday program runs from 20 December 2025 to 1 February 2026 offering a mix of workshops, exhibitions, tours, digital activities and challenges. Held at multiple locations across Sydney, our workshops focus on creative writing, engineering in renewable energy, digital animation and theatre and poster-making.

Families are invited to join tours of the museum’s collection or on the historic grounds of Sydney Observatory.

At Powerhouse Castle Hill, families can explore the latest exhibition featuring objects hand-picked by renowned children’s author, Andy Griffiths in Powerhouse Materials: Paper. From the comfort of home, kids can take part in Andy’s writing challenge by submitting a short story or record a message that will be sent into deep space.

This school holidays, there is something for everyone at Powerhouse.

Powerhouse Young Writers' Challenge with Andy Griffiths

Calling all aspiring writers! Write a creative story in two pages or less that features an object selected by Andy for the Powerhouse Materials: Paper exhibition.

Powerhouse Materials: Paper

Powerhouse Materials: Paper is an exploration of paper, with objects selected from the Powerhouse Collection by guest curator and renowned Australian children’s author Andy Griffiths.