Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is a museum of science and technology in the inner-city of Sydney, Australia. It was converted from an old tram and electricity shed in the 1980s located in the Inner West suburb of Ultimo. It contains five levels and three courtyards and a basement and a storage building. The museum also owns sizeable offsite storage facilities. Exhibitions\nThe museum has hosted many major exhibitions throughout its history, including popular sta trek, lord of the rings, and the mega popular star wars exhibiton from smithsonian. In fact membership of the museum rose alarmingly in the time of star wars exhibitions period. People queued outside the building onto the street to see it. The museum also has a few permanent exhibitions that have been aroud for some years. These include=\n*Cyberworlds\nThis exhibition is about computers and connections through them, and looks at the very firs computing machines to the lates mac designs at the time of launch. It includes many interactives and has been very popular.\n*Space-beyond this world\nThis exhibition looks at space and mans discovery of various parts of it. It ncludes a life size model space shuttle cockpit, and various interactives and games.\nExperimentations\nThis has been one of the most interactive exhibitions and popular exhibitions in history, due to its name being the main unction of the exhibit. It includes many interactives including a chocolate tasting machine which hands out real chocolae bits, a machine where one can pedal and a model firetruck lares its horns, and a model railroad powered by ones own hands.\nTransport\nhis exhibition looks at transport from the very early (horse drawn carriages) to the very latest (hybrid cars).\nBoulton and watt- engine creation\nThe Boulton and watt original engine is still in operaton housed in the back of the museum. The Powerhouse Museum is also a museum located on the shores of the Brisbane River, in Brisbane, Australia. Like its Sydney counterpart it is housed in a large former electricity station.

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\n*Powerhouse Museum official website Category:Museums in AustraliaCategory:Science museums