Task Eternal

Opens 7 Nov

Timed entry Ticket includes entry to the museum and all exhibitions

Free—$30

FreeChildren Ages 16 and under

$20Concession

$30Standard

Powerhouse Parramatta

On Dharug and Burramattagal Land

PS1, Ground level

34 Phillip St, Parramatta NSW 2150

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Tracing humanity’s enduring quest to defy gravity, take flight and journey into the sky, Task Eternal explores ideas, ambitions and innovations through time and space.

It brings together the work of scientists, engineers, designers and artists from across Australia and the world to Parramatta, in one of the most ambitious aerospace exhibitions ever staged.

Task Eternal also expands understandings of our cultural relationship with the sky and considers how humanity navigates its future in space ethically and collectively. The exhibition is punctuated by First Nations Sky Knowledges, including Yolŋu cosmologies, celestial navigation and boomerang flight, acknowledging enduring and sophisticated systems of knowledge and ancestral technologies.

The exhibition’s design led by OPEN Architecture draws inspiration from Ted Chiang’s science fiction short story ‘The Tower of Babylon’ for an ascending journey through 4 acts: Skyward, Power, Off-Earth and The Return.

Task Eternal is a voyage shaped by human curiosity, collective ambition and the desire to move beyond the limits of Earth. In returning once more to ground, visitors share in the experience of countless aeronauts before them — carrying forward new and expanded perspectives.

Low sensory sessions are available during quiet time every Monday 10am–12pm – starting post Opening Festival (30 Nov). Book a low sensory session (opens in new tab).

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Exhibition

James Turrell’s Shangri La (Over The Hump)

Opens 7 Nov

Exhibition Highlights

Task Eternal features significant new commissions by local and international artists alongside more than 850 objects, including items from the Powerhouse Collection (opens in new tab) and loans from Australian and international institutions and industry.

Highlights will include the historic Qantas Avro 504k aircraft; original drawings of flying machines by Leonardo da Vinci, loaned from Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Italy; a NASA Moon rock, the largest collected during the Apollo missions; an extraordinary survey of suits spanning industry, science fiction and pop culture, and an immersive light work by American artist James Turrell.

Task Eternal showcases groundbreaking Australian industry collaborations and technological achievements including:

Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg’s spacesuit, on public display for the first time.
A prototype of Roo-ver, the rover being developed by ELO2 for a mission to the Moon with the Australian Space Agency around the end of this decade.
The Kosmosuit, a next generation ‘smart’ spacesuit developed by Australian start-up Metakosmos and designed to monitor astronaut movement and wellbeing in real time and built with sustainable, high-performance materials.
Australia’s Gilmour Space's sub-orbital 'One Vision' rocket. The development of this rocket demonstrated their determination and safe engine technology and paved the way to their larger Eris rocket.