7News Just InThere's good news for those who yearn for the Sydney of old, with the Powerhouse Museum collection back in public view. With the Ultimo site closed for renovations, and new Parramatta digs not quite ready, our history has found a home in The Hills.
It's a step back in time to the way we used to get around make things.
Some objects that you'll see here today haven't been seen before, and some not for a very long time.
From the nineteen sixties aircraft developed at Seven Hills to the Girder, tested to destruction to ensure they'd be safe enough for the harbor bridge now on display in the forty four million dollar extension of the Powerhouse Museum facility at Castle Hill, open today along with an exhibition on indigenous use of natural dyes. With Powerhouse Ultimo closed and Paramatta not opening until next year, this will help fill the gap, opening on weekends.
It's great that, through a cross section of technology that you ain't seen anymore.
An electric car from nineteen seventeen on a special turntable so it can be digitally captured, archived and shared, which has been done for every object they have.
We've been collecting the innovation of Sydney and New South Wales since eighteen seventy nine.
Including more recent history.
I think the favoritthing has seen so far as the monorail. It brings by alcohola memories of the two thousands.
And all that you can feast your eyes on its smaller objects too, kept at a constant temperature and humidity. What's also on display here is the work that goes into conserving the half a million objects in the Powerhouse collection, preserving the every day to share Sydney's stories. Paul Kaddak, seven News
