Sydney Trip Day 2 - Powerhouse Museum

We made a trip to Sydney in April this year. Here is a 360' view from the Rocks, which includes the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (affectionately known as The Coathanger).

During our visit to Sydney, we visited the Powerhouse Museum. www.powerhousemuseum.com

The first thing we saw there was a big steam train. There was a platform that you could walk up onto and it ran alongside the train so you could see into the train.

At the end of the train there was a table with miniature models of machines designed by James Watt in 1785 to increase steam powered electricity, just beside the full-size model.

Elsewhere in the Museum, we saw a glass case were two round porcelain bowl shapes approximately 12cm long, 6cm wide and 4cm high, and one of them had a spout. A TV was showing two women in old clothes who were talking about the porcelain bowl. One woman was saying it was the perfect shape for a gravy boat, and would look great sitting on a table, full of gravy. The other woman said it would be a good gravy boat, if it wasn’t a chamber pot. Unswayed, the first woman said that she would have to wash it first!

The Strasburg clock was on a podium and a voice talked about its features. In one compartment was Jesus at the last supper. The Disciples came one at a time and bowed to Jesus, then left at the other side of the box. The 6th disciple was Peter, who turned his back on Jesus and left. As he did, Satan appeared at the window. Satan also appeared at the window when Judas, the last disciple, entered, carrying a bag of gold. Judas also turned his back on Jesus. Underneath there was a big map of the Solar System, with the Sun at the centre and all the planets rotating around it. There was also a normal clock, a stair case and several other things.

We walked around to a room with lots of old transport, like a Penny Farthing that you could sit on, a fire truck that you could go on, and aeroplanes that hung from the ceiling.

We walked around to a space area. There was stairs up to parts of a space shuttle and you could go through a zero-gravity room where the floor moved around to the ceiling in a circle around a platform that you walked onto.

The Powerhouse Museum also has a Chemical Lab area where there were different experiments, most of them with magnets.