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Museum Guide VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The museum is housed in two buildings: the former Powerhouse
and the Neville Wran building. There are over 20 exhibitions on four Practical Information
levels, descending from Level 4. The shop, entrance and temporary 500 Harris St, Ultimo. Map 4 D4.
exhibits are on Level 3. Level 2 has Tel 9217 0111. Open 10am–
thematic exhibits. Level 1 has 5pm daily. Closed 25 Dec.
experiments and displays & 7 8 - =
on space, transport Level 4 ∑ maas.museum
and computers. Transport
@ 501. g Darling Harbour.
 Central. v Paddy’s Markets.

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

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

Main entrance
The Neville Wran Building, a 1980s
addition, is based on the design of
grand exhibition halls and railway
stations of the 19th century.

. Locomotive No. 1 Key to Floorplan
Robert Stephenson built this locomo tive Temporary exhibitions
in England in 1854. It hauled the first train in Social History and Design
New South Wales in 1855. Using models and
voices, the display re-creates a 19th-century Science and Technology
day trip for a group of Sydneysiders. Non-exhibition space

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