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q Powerhouse Museum

This former power station, completed in 1902 to provide power
for Sydney’s tramway system, was redesigned to cater for the
needs of an interactive, hands-on museum. The revamped
Powerhouse opened in 1988. The early collection was housed
in the Garden Palace where the 1879 international exhibi tion
of invention and industry from around the world was held.
Few exhibits survived the devastating 1882 fire, and today’s huge
and ever-expanding collection was gathered after this dis aster.
The building’s monumental scale provides an ideal context for
the epic sweep of ideas encompassed within: everything from the What’s It Like to
realm of space and technol ogy to the decorative and domestic arts. Live in Space?
The museum empha sizes Australian innovations and achievements, Find out how astronauts
celebrating both the extraordinary and the everyday. live and work in space, and
experience weightlessness
in the zero gravity space lab.

Level 2

Transport
Discover the air, land and sea vehicles that helped
shape our way of life.

Level 1
. Experimentations
Investigate the principles of
temperature, pressure, elec tricity,
magnetism, light, gravity, motion
and chemistry in this exciting
interactive exhibit.

Nuclear Matters Ecologic shows
This is a great space in which the science behind
to explore the complex global warming
worlds of nuclear science, and what can be
medicine and power. done to prevent it.

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