Powerhouse Museum
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is Australia 's largest and best-known museum and houses exhibits on numerous discoveries and inventions of the human mind.
22 permanent and several special exhibitions are shown on around 20,000 m². The museum has exhibits on topics such as history, science, technology, design, transport, space exploration, and music. Since only a single inventory number was often assigned when larger collections were acquired, the number of around 385,000 copies is misleading. The actual number is estimated to be more than a million collectibles.
history
The museum dates back to Australia's first international exhibition in 1879. Back then, within eight months, the Garden Palace was built in the Sydney Botanical Gardens , where the exhibition took place. After the end of the exhibition, the government bought numerous showpieces from the exhibition, creating the basis for the Technological Industrial and Sanitary Museum, which was to open in 1882. However, the Garden Palace burned down shortly before the scheduled date. After a few years in makeshift rooms, they moved into a building on Harris Street in 1893. The institution, now known as the Technological Museum, was in the immediate vicinity of the Sydney Technical College. In 1945 the name was changed to Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. In 1979, the abandoned power station, which was also located on Harris Street and had once provided the drive for the trams in Sydney, was taken over. The architect Lionel Glendenning added the Wran Building to this structure, which was built from 1899 to 1902 . In 1988 the museum moved into its new domicile and from then on bore its current name.
Special exhibits
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The museum houses the oldest preserved and operational steam engine with a flywheel and planetary gear for converting the linear piston movement into a rotary movement. It comes from Boulton & Watt and was built in 1785 for a brewery.
The Frigate Bird II seaplane has the largest dimensions of all the exhibits .
The heaviest exhibit is the New South Wales Government Railways steam locomotive No. 3830 . The 38 class locomotives were developed during World War II and used until the 1970s. They were the last steam locomotives for passenger trains that New South Wales Government Railways built. In 1962, locomotive 3830 pulled the first continuous train of the Spirit of Progress on standard gauge .
The museum is also home to the first steam locomotive to run in New South Wales , the No. 1 locomotive built by Robert Stephenson in 1854 . It is probably the only surviving specimen in its series.
Cars are also on display. Underneath is a Sheffield Simplex from 1913.
The working model of the astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, built in 1887–1889 by Richard Bartholomew Smith (1862–1942), is a crowd puller . Smith had never seen the original, only based on a description and an illustration on a postcard. He built the clock for the state of New South Wales for its centenary.
Five minutes before the hour, the twelve apostles, who are supposed to symbolize the passing of the twelve hours of the day, present themselves in the housing at the top. When Peter and Judas appear, the figure of Satan also appears in the window to the left of the figure of Jesus. When Petri appears, the cock above crows three times. Dawn mantras by Ross Edwards are heard for the procession of the apostles .
Every quarter of an hour, the figures of the four ages change in the case below. They are located above the display of the moon phases and tides. The position of the planets is shown below this display, followed by the regular dial.
Every week, seven carriages appear in an opening below the dial, which are steered by the deities after whom the days of the week are named. At around 4:10 p.m., the car of the coming day comes into view.
Below is the large astronomical display that shows the current position of the sun, moon and stars. It also shows the local time of six major cities in the world.
The case of the clock is adorned with various allegorical figures. The portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus and Jean Baptiste Schwilgué , who restored the Strasbourg clock, can also be seen on it.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/about/aboutFacts.asp
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/about/aboutHistory.asp
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=7177
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/index.php?irn=207900
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/index.php?irn=85075
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=19352
- ^ Sheffield Simplex car, 1913 (accessed July 30, 2016)
- ↑ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/education/teachersnotes/strasburg_clock.pdf
Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 43 " S , 151 ° 11 ′ 58" E