Powerhouse Museum

: Disambiguation: The Powerhouse is also the name of an unrelated museum located on the north bank of the Brisbane River in the inner city suburb of New Farm, in Brisbane, Australia. Like its Sydney counterpart it is housed in a large former electricity station.

Exhibitions

The museum has hosted many major exhibitions throughout its history, the most popular including Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and the Star Wars exhibition from the Smithsonian. In fact membership of the museum rose alarmingly in the time of Star Wars exhibitions period. People queued outside the building onto the street to see it. The museum also has a few permanent exhibitions that have been around for some years. These include

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• Cyberworlds

This exhibition is about computers and connections through them, and looks at the very first computing machines to the latest Mac designs at the time of launch. It includes many interactives and has been very popular.

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• Space-beyond this world

This exhibition looks at space and man's discovery of various parts of it. It includes a life size model space-shuttle cockpit, and various interactives and games.

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• Experimentations

This has been one of the most interactive exhibitions and popular exhibitions in history, due to its name being the main function of the exhibit. It includes many interactives including a chocolate tasting machine which hands out real chocolate bits, a machine where one can pedal and a model firetruck blares its horns, and a model railroad powered by one's own hands.

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• Transport

This exhibition looks at transport from the very early (horse drawn carriages) to the very latest (hybrid cars).

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• Boulton and Watt engine creation

The Boulton and Watt original engine is still in operation housed in the back of the museum.

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