TIMELINE FOR THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES 1879 Sydney International Exhibition: Garden Palace, Royal Botanic Gardens lays the foundations for MAAS and its collections 1880 The Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum opens in Garden Palace with 10,000 exhibits 1882 Fire destroys the Garden Palace and most of its collections 1883 The Technological, Industrial … Continue reading MAAS Timeline

  FOR ILLUSTRATED VERSION, READ HERE:  PMA Australia ICOMOS JS Australia ICOMOS 2019 SYDNEY TALK SERIES NUMBER 6 Tuesday 1st October 2019 POLICY, POWER AND THE CULTURAL AND HERITAGE VALUES OF THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM KYLIE WINKWORTH AND JENNIFER SANDERS, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCE JENNIFER SANDERS THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM: ITS PLACE IN THE WORLD, OUR NATION, NEW … Continue reading Policy, power and the cultural and heritage values of the Powerhouse Museum – Jennifer Sanders

Ultimo Tram Depot (The Harwood Building), History and Significance – Tony Brassil  In April, 2019, Tony Brassil, Industrial Heritage Specialist for the National Trust of Australia (NSW), wrote this history and significance assessment of what is now the Powerhouse Museum’s Harwood building (in 2020 under threat of demolition in the move of the Museum to … Continue reading Ultimo Tram Depot (The Harwood Building), History and Significance – Tony Brassil

‘ Assessment of Heritage Significance: Ultimo Tramways, Powerhouse Museum’  30 January 2020 In 2016 the National Trust of Australia (NSW) had submitted a nomination for listing the Ultimo Power House on the State Heritage Register. This was ignored until 2019, when architects Cracknell & Lonergan were contracted by Heritage NSW, Department of Premier and Cabinet, … Continue reading State Heritage Register, Powerhouse Museum: Assessment of significance, and nomination for heritage listing, 2020

The Powerhouse Museum: an exhibition archive 1988-2018 Christina Sumner OAM, 31 October 2018. Exhibitions developed by and/or displayed at the Powerhouse Museum, the Observatory, the Mint, the Hyde Park Barracks, the Powerhouse (now Museum) Discovery Centre and online from 1988, when the Powerhouse opened its doors in its new Ultimo location, to 2018. Also included … Continue reading Powerhouse Museum: an exhibition archive

Powerhouse Museum: heritage significance since 1988 After many years of planning for the new Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo as the primary venue for the long-established Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, the Museum opened at 500 Harris Street  in March 1988. It was widely acknowledged for the adaptive reuse of the original Powerhouse buildings, for … Continue reading Powerhouse Museum: heritage significance since 1988

24 March, 2020 State Heritage Register: Examples of submissions to review Powerhouse Museum nomination On 26 February 2020, the NSW Heritage Council advertised a notice of intention to consider listing the ‘Ultimo Tramways Power House’ on the State Heritage Register. In 2016 the National Trust of Australia (NSW) had submitted a nomination for listing the … Continue reading State Heritage Register: Examples of submissions about Powerhouse Museum nomination, 2020

State Heritage Register Nomination for Ultimo Power Station; Powerhouse Museum, 2016 In September 2016, the National Trust of Australia (NSW), submitted a nomination that the buildings of the ‘Ultimo Power House (Ultimo Power Station; Powerhouse Museum)’ be listed on the State Heritage Register. The reasons given for nomination were: ‘The Ultimo Powerhouse is clearly of … Continue reading State Heritage Register Nomination for Ultimo Power Station; Powerhouse Museum, 2016

Attached here, is a copy of my booklet, Heritage of the Powerhouse Museum , which is being distributed by the Pyrmont History Group. Its purpose is to demonstrate the heritage values of the Powerhouse Museum’s buildings. They are not fibro shacks that can be quickly bulldozed, but are beautifully built and must be preserved because of their … Continue reading Heritage of the Powerhouse Museum: Tom Lockley

Norman Harwood (1920-1984), Curator Emeritus, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences by Andrew Grant July, 2016 The Harwood Building memorialises the name of one of the most influential figures in the history of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. It is hard to imagine how the Power House Museum could have been realised without … Continue reading Heritage: Curator Emeritus Norman Harwood, and the Harwood building

  THE HUNTERS HILL TRUST P R E S E R V I N G  A U S T R A L I A ‘ S  O L D E S T  G A R D E N  S U B U R B P.O. BOX 85, HUNTERS HILL, N.S.W. 2110         … Continue reading Hunters Hill Trust: State Heritage, history and culture, Powerhouse and Parramatta

NSW Migration Heritage Centre, formerly at the Powerhouse Museum Kylie Winkworth January, 2016 Background The Migration Heritage Centre (MHC) was established in 1998, initially as a strategic initiative based in Premier’s and then located at the Powerhouse Museum (PHM) from 2003. The initiative to create the MHC was prompted by the recognition that collecting, research … Continue reading NSW Migration Heritage Centre – Kylie Winkworth