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

Task Eternal

to fly, leave earth, return

2025

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.

Are you the next Andy Griffiths? Do you have a story to tell?

The Powerhouse Young Writers' Challenge invites NSW primary school aged children to produce a creative story, inspired by objects selected by Andy Griffiths from the Powerhouse Collection. Submit your story and you will be invited to a Powerhouse Young Writers' Challenge event held at Powerhouse Castle Hill with Andy Griffiths in March 2026.

Your story must feature at least one of the objects in the exhibition. If you can't come and visit in person, choose one of the following objects to write about:

Brown envelope with black text 'The Real Misery-Mover! Joke Toilet Paper. A Shake of Laughter per Sheet! Cheeky - but Clean. 1/4 Per Packet'. — 1/3
Novelty trick toilet paper
Object No. 2012/104/111

A dark blue placard with a photograph of a polar bear. The words 'Dude Where's My Ice' are painted in white paint. — 2/3
'Dude, Where's My Ice?' placard used at the Sydney Climate Strike
Object No. 2020/24/1

3/3
Poster, Wirths Circus and Menagerie
Object No. 2012/104/1-10/3/1

Stories can be typed or handwritten, they can include pictures, as well as other text types such as comic strips, lists, diagrams, and maps. Submissions must be two single-sided A4 pages or less.

For inspiration from Andy Griffiths, here are three Super Short Stories he wrote for three other objects in the exhibition.

Submissions close on 1 February 2026. Upload your submission to the Powerhouse Young Writers’ Challenge here.

Submit Here

The Powerhouse Young Writers' Challenge will also be delivered with selected schools in Western Sydney, more info here.