Power House Museum is the first science and technology museum that I visited.  This museum is located on Darling Harbour.  It composts with many collections of history, science, design, industry, arts, transport and space exploration.  The fee to go in there is quite cheap about 10$Aus per person.  However, if you have a student card, you can pay only a half price as 5$Aus.  The staff will show you the highlight of each collection to you before you start to tour in the museum.  They also have the sheet of "Daily What's On" to show the activities on that day.  You also can take a photo from some collections inside the museum.  I went this museum on 26th December 2005 which it was the first day of  a touring Kylie Minogue exhibition.  I preferred to go there this day because I needed  to give one of my nice friend a favour who love Kylie. 

The map from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/visit/howtogethere.asp  and you also see more information from this website.

The stringed instruments

Musical instrument collection was established in the 1880s.  It consists of many objects around the world. Read more information from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/musical_instuments.asp

 

Experimentation zone

In this zone is a favorite zone for many children. They can play and learn from here.  In the first picture, it is a plasma ball. When you touch it , the electrically charged gases with light follow your touching and tingle  your fingers. Other pictures also focus on physics experiments about heat, light, and movement. You can enjoy a lot in this museum.  Read more information from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/experimentations.asp

 

Space zone

Please read more details from  http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/space.asp

 

Kylie's exhibition

Kylie Minogue is a very famous Australian singer and she is also famous in America.  This moment (Dec 2005), she faces with the cancer and treat herself in America. Kylie's exhibition shows  her fantastic dresses, her music, live performance, and star status. Unfortunately, they didn't allow to take a photo so I can shot only one photo in front the exhibition's room. I saw a lot of her dresses and some dresses her designed by herself.  I also enjoyed her music, especially, "Show Girl"

        "What I imaging people will want to see is the wear and tear, the ingrained make-up after fifty shows, where the audio-pack rubs-these are the things that for me, bring costumes to life"  

Kylie Minogue

Women's work in the home

In this zone shows how Australians'women work hard for their house works, such as , washing, cleaning, cooking, and caring their kids. See more information from   http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/never_done.asp

Steam locomotive

Read more information from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/locomotive1.asp

What is in stores?

This zone shows the retailing and advertising of Australia in the past.  See more information from

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/whats_in_store.asp

The steam revolution

Read more information from  http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/steam_revolution.asp

Success and innovation in Australia

Read more information from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/success_innovation.asp

There are many exhibitions and collections in this museum. I picked up only some parts to you here, other zones that I did not display here, for example, transport, ecologic: creating a sustainable future, the King cinema are shown in Power House Museum.  Do not forget to visit here, if you like science and technology exhibitons.