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Museum Guide VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The museum houses more than 20 exhibitions on four levels,
descending from Level 4. The shop, café, entrance, Boulton & Watt Practical Information
Engine, Robert Stephenson’s Locomotive No. 1 and temporary exhibits 500 Harris St, Ultimo.
are on Level 3. Level 2 has thematic exhibits. Level 1 has displays Map 4 D4.
on space and transport, Tel 9217 0111. Open 10am–5pm
as well as interactive daily. Closed 25 Dec. & 7 =
technology 8 - ∑ maas.museum/
displays. Level 4 powerhouse-museum
Transport
@ 501. g Darling Harbour. 
Central. v Paddy’s Markets.

. Boulton & Watt Engine
The oldest surviving rotative steam
Level 3
engine in the world, it powered a
London brewery for 102 years from
1875. It is regularly put into operation
in the museum.

Icons
Explore what makes an object
iconic through more than
Main 70 rarely displayed items, such
entrance as this Regency settee and
matching armchairs, designed
by Thomas Hope, London,
in about 1802.

. Locomotive No. 1 The Neville Wran Building,
Robert Stephenson built this locomotive a 1980s addition, is based
in England in 1854. It hauled the first train in on the design of grand
New South Wales in 1855. Using models and exhibition halls and railway
voices, the display re-creates a 19th-century stations of the 19th century.
day trip for a group of Sydneysiders.