THE SYDNEY CULTURE

 

 

 

The Museum of Sydney (MoS) is a multi-media, multi-disciplinary installation about the nature and narration of this place now called Sydney. The Museum has been built in the heart of Sydney upon the archaeological remains of Australia's first Government House - not as an imperial mausoleum but as a meeting place. Like the city itself, MoS is a spatial composition. The Museum of Sydney clears a post-colonial space where an array of Sydney voices, of past and present, may speak and converse. MoS explores the worlds of Sydney through objects, pictures, stories and digital-media technologies.

A visit to the Powerhouse Museum can include computer games, lectures, kids' activities, videos and classic films, highlight tours, demonstrations of community crafts and much more. There's a full range of education services and a members' organization.

The museum opened to the public in 1988 in a new building constructed from the shell of an old power station in Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney. But our history goes back much further than that. Built up since 1880, our vast collection includes an extraordinary array of treasures, oddities and innovations.

The museum also includes the historic Sydney Observatory. The two make up the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, a New South Wales government cultural institution.