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

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

Photographic negative, Aroma coastline, glass / silver / gelatin, published by Kerry and Co,

Powerhouse Renewal

Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

A tall rocket with a long trail of burning fuel lifts off from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral.

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

Photofields

Across Sydney6—7 Dec
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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Photographic negative, Aroma coastline, glass / silver / gelatin, published by Kerry and Co,

Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising

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Ended 12 Oct 2023
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Ultimo

First presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Talanoa Forum extends the themes of the Paradise Camp exhibition by bringing together 24 artists, curators, scholars, activists and policymakers from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sāmoa, Tahiti and Italy. This 3-day interdisciplinary program will highlight urgent issues including small island ecologies, climate justice, decolonial museology, diasporic and Pacific alliances.

Talanoa Forum Provocateurs

Ioana Gordon-Smith (NZ)
Prof Francesca Tarocco (Venice)
Prof Katerina Teaiwa SFHEA (AUS)

Talanoa Forum Speakers

Miriama Bono (Tahiti)
Prof Cristina Baldacci (Venice)
Sefa Enari MNZM (NZ)
Aanoali'i Rowena Fuluifaga (NZ)
Tammi Gissell (Muruwari-Wiradjuri)
Yuki Kihara (Sāmoa)
Prof Natalie King
Tau'ili'ili Alpha Maiava (NZ)
Madeline Poll (Torres Strait-Australian South Sea Islander)
Alofipo Fleur Ramsay
Prof Jioji Ravulo
Rosanna Raymond MNZM
Cindy of Sāmoa
Harold Samu
Jannike Seiuli
Nathan Mudyi Sentance (Wiradjuri)
Tiumalu Noma Sio-Faiumu (NZ)
Lalau Leo Tanoi
Latai Taumoepeau
Ta'iao Matiu Matavai Tautunu (Sāmoa)
Thelma Thomas (MC Trey)
Fagalima Tuatagaloa (Sāmoa)

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