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I believe it is important for
organisations to recognise
excellence and reward
achievement. The annual Life
Fellows Dinner is an
opportunity for the Museum to
do this. Life Fellow is the
Museum’s highest honorific
title. It is awarded to
individuals who have made a
substantial contribution and
sustained commitment to the
Museum. The third annual
dinner was held in September
and three new Life Fellows
were announced. My sincere
congratulations go to Mr
William Bush, Ms Jenny Kee
and Ms Linda Jackson. You
can read more about their
contributions on page 05 or
see the new display on level 5
that illustrates our association
with them.
This year we have widened the
range of awards. Malcolm
King, a Trustee of the Museum
from 1979 to 1988, was made
the first Life Fellow of the
O2 From the director
03 Power picks
06 Sport: more than heroes and legends opening night
07 Sport: search for a community hero
08 Lawrence Hargrave: Australia’s aviation pioneer
10 New acquisitions: the bookies’ board
11 Members news: online survey
12 Members calendar
14 Members scene
15 Christmas gift guide
16 EcoLogic: a new book on sustainability
18 Travelling around: from Beijing to Bourke
20 Works wonders: home remedies on video
21 From the archives: stories of our past
22 Observe: Mars exploration
23 Corporate partners
24 New exhibitions at a glance
Powerhouse in 1989. In an act
of generosity reflecting his
ongoing affection for this
institution, Mr King has funded
an award to sustain and
strengthen the Museum’s
professional skills. The
inaugural Malcolm King Award
for Professional Development
was awarded to two deserving
staff members, Laurie-Anne
Bentley, Event Sales Manager
and Anne Watson, Decorative
Arts & Design Curator.
Mr Masasuke Hiraoke, who
lives in Tokyo and flew to
Sydney for the dinner, was
awarded a Distinguished
Service Award. Mr Hiraoke is a
great friend of the Museum, in
particular through the Yasuko
Myer Bequest to acquirecontemporary Australian
jewellery. Distinguished Service
Awards were also presented to
four former staff members,
Rosemary Shepherd, Richard
Wood, Mitra Bhar and Geoff
Bannon, who sadly passed
away last year.
TRUSTEES
Dr Nicholas G Pappas,
President
Dr Anne Summers AO,
Deputy President
Mr Mark Bouris
Ms Trisha Dixon
Ms Susan Gray
Professor Ron Johnston
Mrs Janet McDonald AO
Mr Anthony Sukari
Ms Kylie Winkworth
SENIOR MANAGEMENT
Dr Kevin Fewster AM, Director
Jennifer Sanders, Deputy Director,
Collections and Exhibitions
Mark Goggin, Associate Director,
Programs and Commercial Services
Michael Landsbergen, Associate
Director, Corporate Services
Kevin Sumption, Associate Director,
Knowledge and Information
Management
The Museum also announced
a new award, the Powerhouse
Wizard, which will be
presented for the first time at
next year's 125th Anniversary
Life Fellows dinner. The
Powerhouse Wizard will honour
the contemporary achievement
of a person actively
contributing to the country's
betterment. While the Life
Fellows award is reflective, this
new award connects to our
future.
There are many people in the
Museum, around Australia and
across the world who have
greatly enhanced the work of
the Museum. Without them and
their valuable support, the
Museum would not be the
great institution it is today. Iwould therefore like to take
this opportunity to thank all of
you for your contributions.
Dr Kevin Fewster AM
Director
contentsissue 72
from the
director
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO WIN ANOLYPMIC GOLD MEDAL? DANIELCONTE TRIES OUT THE WINNERS’PODIUM IN FRONT OF A ‘ROARINGCROWD’ IN SPORT: MORE THAN HEROES AND LEGENDS. MORESPORT NEWS ON PAGES 06-7.PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD,BACKGROUND PHOTO BY JEAN-FRANCOIS LANZARONE.
Powerline is produced by the Print Media Department
of the Powerhouse Museum
PO Box K346, Haymarket NSW 1238
Editor: Judith Matheson
Editorial coordinator: Deborah RenaudDesign: Triggerdesign
Photography: Powerhouse Museum unless otherwise stated.
Every effort has been made to locate owners of copyright for the images in
this publication. Any inquiries should be directed to the Rights and
Permissions Officer, Powerhouse Museum.
ISSN 1030-5750 © Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
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Where to find us
Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Darling Harbour Sydney
Opening hours 10.00 am – 5.00 pm every day (except Christmas
Day). School holiday opening hours 9.30 am – 5.00 pm
Contact details
Postal address: PO Box K346, Haymarket NSW 1238
Telephone (02) 9217 0111,
Infoline (02) 9217 0444, Education (02) 9217 0222
The Powerhouse Museum, part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
also incorporating Sydney Observatory, is a NSW government cultural institution.
www.powerhousemuseum.com
DECEMBER 2003JANUARY
FEBRUARY 2004
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soundbytewins scienceaward
new looksoundbyteonline
The Information and
Communications Technology
(ICT) award, sponsored by the
Australian Computer Society,
was for outstanding innovation
in the research, development
design, or implementation of
projects. It was presented at a
gala dinner for 800 guests at
Fox Studios in August.
Museum staff Peter Mahony,
SoundHouse™ Educator and
soundbyte Project Manager,
and Seb Chan, Systems
Administrator and the
technical producer of
soundbyte , were present at
the event. The award, which
carries a prize of $10 000, was
presented by Richard Hogg,
President of the Australian
Computer Society.
Soundbyte.org has reached
some 60 000 people since its
launch in October 2001,
including music students,
Indigenous young people and
others in regional and remote
areas of NSW, homeless and
at-risk young people in Sydney,
as well as other community
groups around NSW.
John Welch, Coordinator of the
Regional Outreach Music
Project (ROMP) says, ‘Over the
past 18 months I have been
running demonstrations for
regional communities on
computer music and
recommending soundbyte . The
strongest impact has been in
communities where artsintervention programs are
being used to encourage
marginalised young people
back into the community. The
value of the music programs
soundbyte promotes is that
they can be accessed without
any theoretical knowledge or
instrumental performance
skills. The self esteem the
music-making generates and
the positive changes in
behaviour and attitude among
young people is remarkable.’
Irma Havlicek
Online Content Coordinator
Soundbyte.org enables anyone
with internet access to use their
computer to create hundreds of
musical instrument sounds in a
‘recording studio’ environment.
Users can produce high quality
music of any style, including
dance music, hip-hop, classical,
techno, jazz, pop, and jam with
each other in real time. It
requires no theoretical
knowledge or instrument skills,
just imagination and time.
Although primarily developed for
teachers, students, young
people and community groups,it can be used by anyone, from
primary school kids to
professional musicians.
Resources include music
tutorials, free software
(shareware) including some 500
loops, multi-track audio and
sequencing and editing
software, the opportunity for
schools or community
organisations to upload their
music and convert music to
written notation.
An improved soundbyte.org will
go online shortly. The site has
been redeveloped so that it will
support easier searching, better
video and audio uploading andplayback, and to allow schools
and community groups to
create more elaborate pages.
www.soundbyte.org
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SOUNDBYTE, THE MUSEUM’S INNOVATIVE MUSIC WEBSITE,WINS ACCOLADES AND LAUNCHES A NEW LOOK
SOUNDHOUSE ASSISTANT EDUCATION OFFICER MICHAEL JONES, SEB CHAN ANDPETER MAHONY IN THE SOUNDHOUSE STUDIO WITH THE EUREKA AWARD. INSET:THE EUREKA AWARD. PHOTOS BY JEAN-FRANCOIS LANZARONE
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS CAN ACCESS SOUNDBYTE TO CREATE THEIR OWN RECORDING STUDIO ENVIRONMENT.
Soundbyte.org, the Museum’s online
music service, is awarded an AustralianMuseum Eureka Prize.
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childhoodmemoriesof migration
Childhood memories of
migration: images, imaginings
and impressions is a new
exhibition that explores the
personal experiences of
children who lived in Villawood
and Cabramatta migrant
hostels from the 1950s to the
1990s.
Developed by Fairfield City
Museum & Gallery, the
exhibition is dedicated to
those families and children
who made the journey to an
unknown land, coming by all
methods and means to make
a new life for themselves and,
as a result, to influence and
change Australian life.
‘Australia is predominantly a
settler society. The majority of
Australians born here however,
know remarkably little about
why migrants left theirhomelands, and could not
imagine being exposed to civil
unrest, unstable governments
or sustained economic
hardship,’ says exhibition
curator Helen Tierney.
The migrants’ stories are told
through keepsakes,
photographs and multimedia
and trace their journey, from
homeland to hostel to home.
Children who came as
migrants on ocean liners in the
‘50s and ‘60s from Great
Britain, Ireland, Scotland and
Northern Europe remember
the journey as the holiday they
never had. Those fleeing war-
ravaged countries and
communist governments in the
1970s made risky journeys,
often in small boats,
endangering their lives andsavings. On arrival in Australia,
most of the children remember
hostel life fondly. ‘Time spent in
hostels provided an insight
into the society that lay
beyond. It was like a mini-
global village, with its many
cultures, its narrow lanes, shop,
bank and post office,’ says
Helen. Setting up their own
home was a priority for new
migrants and often both
parents worked hard in
multiple jobs. ‘The first home in
Australia is remembered with
pride and satisfaction. It wasthe outward sign that migrants
had earned a place in the
community.’
Childhood memories of
migration is on display in the
Australian Communities Gallery
until April 2004.
An exhibition developed by Fairfield CityMuseum & Gallery. Supported by theFairfield City Council, The MigrationHeritage Centre, and NSW Ministry for theArts.
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conservationchapter
Members of the LachlanChapter of Museums Australia
enjoy a hands-on workshop in
Young NSW on how to care for
and repair old maps. The
workshop is part of the
Powerhouse Museum’s
regional services program and
was run by conservator
Margaret Juraszek.
NIDIA VIRTICH RIDING HER BIKE, SECONDHAND FROM ANOTHER VILLAWOODHOSTEL FAMILY 1951. PHOTO COURTESY NIDIA MARSON.
TOP: DIANA MACQUILLAN FROM YASSAND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.BOTTOM: MADELINE FORGIE ANDALMA COWLEY FROM COWRA ANDDISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.PHOTOS BY REBECCA PINCHIN
Former US astronaut Edwin‘Buzz’ Aldrin took time out of
his busy Sydney schedule to
make a flying visit to the
Powerhouse Museum in
October. He was particularly
keen to see the Space
exhibition and complimented
the Museum on its educative
role in this field. He is pictured
Buzzdrops in
with the famous photo of himwalking on the Moon during
the historic landing by Apollo-
11 in July 1969. Buzz and fellow
astronaut Neil Armstrong were
the first men to walk on the
Moon’s surface.
PHOTO BY BRAD BAKER
£
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orientalrugsconference
Sydney is the host city forICOC Down Under, the regionalInternational Conference onOriental Carpets on 16-19September 2004. Presented bythe Oriental Rug Society ofNew South Wales and thePowerhouse Museum, ICOCDown Under comprises astimulating program of lectureson oriental rugs and textiles byinternational and local expertsover three days. There will alsobe a major exhibition at the
life fellowsdinner 2003
At the annual Life Fellows
Dinner in September, threenew Life Fellows were
announced for their major
contributions to the Museum.
Jenny Kee has made an
outstanding contribution to the
promotion, development and
documentation of the
Museum’s fashion collection.
In particular, she played a key
role in documenting and
making accessible the Sydney
2000 Games Collection. Ms
Kee is one of Australia’s best
known fashion designers and
the Museum first acquired her
work in 1981. A major collectionof outfits and textiles followed
in 1996, later complemented by
her personal archive.
Linda Jackson has made a
generous contribution to thedevelopment, documentation
and promotion of the
Museum’s fashion and dress
collection. Her work was first
acquired in the early 1970s and
in 1991 the Museum acquired a
major collection of 52 outfits,
followed by her extensive
personal archive and textile
collection. Always willing to
share her knowledge and
expertise, she has been
actively involved in a range of
highly successful programs
both within and outside the
Museum.William Bush, now in his 80s,
has donated bank notes and
coins to the Museum since the
NINGXIA CARPET FROM CHINA ABOUT 1840, 1950 X 1360 MMGIFT OF ALASTAIR MORRISON, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM COLLECTION
1960s. His contribution
amounts to 3000 individualobjects (about 10% of the
numismatic collection). During
this time he has shared his
passion for numismatics with
Museum staff. Mr Bush, an
American by birth, was unable
to travel from the US to accept
his award. He was represented
by Ms Eileen Malloy, United
States Consul General, Sydney.
The Life Fellows Dinner has
been sponsored since 2002 by
corporate partner Mincom
Limited, whose integrated
finance and human resources
systems have assisted thePowerhouse to become a
service provider to external
government agencies.
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NEW LIFE FELLOWS JENNY KEE (LEFT) AND LINDA JACKSON WITH THEIR MEDALS.PHOTO BY GEOFF FRIEND
Powerhouse of textiles,ceramics and other artefactsfrom Central Asia, as well asa dealers fair and privategallery shows.
You can register your interestfor this conference now byemailing [email protected] send your details to theOriental Rug Society of NSW,PO Box 343, Woollahra NSW1350.
Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson and WilliamBush are recognised for their outstandingcontributions to the Powerhouse.
The Governor of NSW,
Professor Marie Bashir AC,
launched the new Powerhouse
Publishing title What's in
store? a history of retailing in
Australia in July. She is
pictured (centre) with authors
Kimberley Webber and Ian
Hoskins. The book is anengaging look at Australia’s
colourful retail past told in
part through the stories of
shopkeepers, many of whom
attended the launch. RRP
$34.95, available from the
Powerhouse Shop or phone
(02) 9217 0129
PHOTO BY MARINCO KOJDANOVSKI
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LEGENDS OF SPORT (FROM LEFT)KEN ROSEWALL, MICHELE TIMMS,STEVE WAUGH AND (FOREGROUND)LOUISE SAUVAGE. GUESTS ARRIVEFOR THE OPENING OF SPORT.
A host of sporting greats
past and present attended
the gala opening of Sport:
more than heroes and legends on 25 September
2003. The exhibition’s
‘Forest of Fame’ honours
six legends of sport and
four of them were present
on the night to cut the
ribbon for the opening.
PHOTOS BY MARINCO KOJDANOVSKIAND SOTHA BOURN.
Principal Sponsor AMP. Sponsor SharpAustralia. Supported by Wide World ofSports, The Daily Telegraph, Triple M,Australian Posters, Metro Monorail andRebel Sport.
legendslaunchsport
STAR OF THE 1956 OLYMPICSSHIRLEY STRICKLAND TRAVELLEDFROM PERTH FOR THE OPENING.
ABOVE LEFT: LOUISE SAUVAGE WITHHER GOLDEN WHEELCHAIR. ABOVE:VOLUNTEER JOHN EBNER TRIES HISHAND AT THE JAVELIN. LEFT: KENROSEWALL WITH RACQUETS FROM1900 TO THE PRESENT DAY.
LEFT: THE ‘LEGENDS’ CUT THERIBBON FOR THE OPENING OFSPORT. RIGHT: AUSSIE CRICKETCAPTAIN STEVE WAUGH. BELOW:BASKETBALL STAR MICHELE TIMMS.BELOW RIGHT: PHIL COLES AM, IOCMEMBER, AUSTRALIAN OLYMPICCOMMITTEE, WITH THE SURFLIFESAVING DISPLAY.
STEVE WAUGH REFLECTS ONCRICKET’S HISTORY
ABOVE: STEVE WAUGH, SHIRLEYSTRICKLAND AND BOB SIMPSON.LEFT: STEVE WAUGH TESTS HISSKILLS IN THE ‘THROW THE BALL’INTERACTIVE. THE VERDICT? HEMAKES THE TEAM!
ABOVE: THE CROWD SURGESFORWARD INTO SPORT. LEFT: 3DCLINIC’S HOLOGRAM SHOWING HOWTHE HUMAN BODY PERFORMS.
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KAILAH ELLIOT-KOLOAMATANGIWITH HER PARENTS NICOLE ANDISI AT HOME (RIGHT) AND AT THEOPENING OF SPORT (BELOW).MAIN PHOTO BY JEAN-FRANCOISLANZARONE.
Nicole Elliot and Isi Koloamatangi are the parents of11-year-old Kailah, a potential swimming star of the
future. Their family life revolves around Kailah’s
schedule, whether it is getting her to the pool by 5.00
am every morning for her two-hour training session,
or making sure she gets enough rest and the right
diet, or travelling with her to interstate meets. Says
mum Nicole, ‘I want her to swim as long as she
enjoys it. Before every race I say, have fun!’ Kailah
has already won medals at the School National
Swimming Championships and the NSW State
Swimming Championships. Nicole and Isi are two of
the ‘unsung heroes’ of Australian sport celebrated in
the ‘Forest of Fame’ in the new Powerhouse
exhibition Sport: more than heroes and legends .
There are many more unsung heroes of sport
deserving of recognition: the people who help make
sport happen on a day-to-day basis. Without them
many local sporting organisations and competitions
would be unable to continue. They may be theparents of the elite athletes of tomorrow, they may
volunteer their time coaching, refereeing and
organising others, or they make work behind the
scenes to promote their sport.
Do you know someone in your community who goes
the extra distance for a local sporting group? As a
tribute to all the community heroes, the Sport
exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to nominate a
sporting person whom they believe fits the
description of Community Hero. Six will be selected
each month and have their photo and story featured
in a special section of the exhibition.
Mark Wallington is among the first monthly selection.
Mark first appeared as Western Suburbs rugby
league team mascot ‘Mark the magpie’ in 1978 andcontinued until 1999 when the team amalgamated
with Balmain. He then became a ‘tiger’ and continued
until the end of the 2002 season. Over 25 years, Mark
made just short of 600 first grade appearances andmissed only a handful of games. ‘Even on the birth of
my son in 1994, I raced from the hospital to the
ground to lead them out,’ he says. Mark was
approached by club officials to take on the mascot
role. ‘They all knew how vocal and passionate I was
about my club. I never started out to create any
record. Somehow the character came alive and the
rest is history.’
Search for a Community Hero is sponsored by AMP,
the principal sponsor of Sport: more than heroes and
legends . This sponsorship is an extension of AMP’s
commitment to communities across the country
through their new Personal Best Program. You can
pick up a Community Hero nomination form in the
exhibition, from an AMP Financial Planners office or
download one from www.amp.com.au/sport
NOT ALL HEROES OF AUSTRALIAN SPORT ARE HOUSEHOLDNAMES. NOMINATE SOMEONE YOU KNOW FOR RECOGNITION.
Search for a community hero
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One hundred years ago on 17 December 1903brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made four short
flights in their aircraft at Kittyhawk in North Carolina,
USA. For this feat they were hailed as the first in the
world to make a powered, controlled flight in a
heavier-than-air craft.
Their success was the culmination of the work of
many pioneers who had researched and
experimented with the mechanics of aviation. One of
those was inventor Lawrence Hargrave, who lived
most of his life in New South Wales. Hargrave’s
surviving aeronautical models, drawings, photographs
and notes, for the most part, reside at the
Powerhouse Museum. They form the basis of a small
exhibition to celebrate the centenary of aviation.
Hargrave began his aeronautical experiments in theearly 1880s and worked tirelessly to develop a
practical flying machine, engine and propeller. He
circulated his results internationally and one of his
most famous correspondents was Octave Chanute, a
French-born American engineer.
Chanute had spent several decades collecting
information on aviation experiments. He wrote in his
1894 book Progress in flying machines , ‘If any man
deserves to fly, that man is Lawrence Hargrave of
Sydney, New South Wales.’ In fact, Hargrave’s only
‘flight’ took place on 12 November 1894 on the beach
at Stanwell Park south of Sydney when he briefly
went aloft beneath four box kites he had designed
and built. The kites, which were tethered to the
ground, lifted him 4.8 metres into the air.
It was Hargrave’s box kites that would lead via
Chanute to the first powered, controlled flight two
years later. Chanute was intrigued with this invention
and began his own engineering study of them,
frequently quizzing Hargrave on the technical detail
of the kites. He produced his own versions and one,
known as the ‘ladder kite’ became the design
prototype for the glider known as the Katydid .
From the lessons learned on Katydid , Chanute
developed his biplane glider. The glider was
considered a success and enjoyed many accident-
free glides. It, in turn, became the design prototype
for the Wright brothers who were seeking a structure
to incorporate their wing warping control system.
Meanwhile, in France, Gabriel and Charles Voisin hadlearnt of the box kite and built one of their own. They
were impressed with its stability and lifting power.
Gabriel went on to become a pioneer aircraft builder
and inspired Alberto Santos-Dumont to abandon
airships. Using the box kite as a basis, Santos-
Dumont constructed his aircraft 14bis and achieved
the first powered, controlled flight in Europe in 1906.
In Sydney Hargrave had been working on his trimaran
floatplane but his inability to develop a suitable
engine and propeller combination slowed his
progress. He was recovering from a bout of typhoid
when he received Chanute’s letter telling him that the
Wright brothers had flown. Hargrave immediately
wrote to Wilbur Wright congratulating him.
Hargrave continued with his aeronautical experimentstogether with his son Geoffrey, who had developed
an interest in engineering. Unfortunately Geoffrey was
killed at Gallipoli and Lawrence died of peritonitis six
weeks later on 6 July 1915, aged 65.
Lawrence made his first donation of early flying
machine models to the Museum in 1891 and offered
the remainder of his collection of aeronautical
paraphernalia in 1910. Because of an expensive
condition attached to his offer the Museum was
unable to react immediately. When the problem had
been solved it was too late. Lawrence’s offer had
been taken up by the Deutsches Museum, Germany.
When Lawrence died his widow gathered all his
drawings, photographs and notes together and
moved to England. She subsequently donated this
archive to the Royal Aeronautical Society there.
During World War II the Deutsches Museum was
bombed and many of Hargrave’s models were
destroyed but the survivors were donated to the
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in 1960 and
the Royal Aeronautical Society donated its Hargrave
archive to the Museum in 1963.
While Hargrave was not the first to fly, for him ‘… the
act of invention was a sort of inspiration and a
pleasure that the individual does not seek to be
rewarded for undergoing’. However, Hargrave
certainly deserves recognition in the centenary of
aviation year for his significant role in the
development of the successful aeroplane.
Sponsored by Sydney Airport.
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE LED THE WAY FOR THEWRIGHT BROTHERS. FOR THE CENTENARY OFAVIATION, WE CELEBRATE HIS CRUCIAL ROLE.story _ IAN DEBENHAM, CURATOR TRANSPORT
Australia’saviation pioneer
HARGRAVE (LEFT) DEMONSTRATING HIS KITE-LIFT EXPERIMENT IN NOVEMBER 1894 AT STANWELL PARK, NSWPHOTO BY CHARLES BAYLISS, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM COLLECTION.
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Although racing has traded on its aristocratic image
and spectator appeal, its economic heart is the
bookies’ ring, an anachronistic survivor in the world of
contemporary gambling. Because of their association
with race-fixing and other dubious practices, on-
course bookmakers are illegal in many countries. In
Australia, by contrast, bookmakers were regulated
and licensed by the racing clubs and by their own
Tattersall’s clubs. As a result, the profession is
uniquely prominent in Australia.
By 1900 bookmakers no longer roamed courses,
shouting their odds. Instead they were allotted a
designated 'pitch' within prescribed areas or rings,
each with a clerk wearing a bag containing money
and issuing betting tickets. Bookmakers began to
chalk their odds on timber boards from the 1920s,
presumably as a response to the introduction of the
on-course totalisator, which showed betting prices on
indicator boards.
In 1945 the Victorian Racing Club at Flemington and
the Australian Jockey Club at Randwick decided to
introduce a standard betting board to the Paddock
betting ring. The purpose was to impose greater
order in this betting ring, which was patronised by the
wealthier punters (as distinct from the Flat and Legerenclosures where admission fees were lower).
Jack Miller was a successful Melbourne bookmaker.
Milton Napthine had been a betting supervisor with
the Victoria Racing Club prior to enlisting in the RAAF
during the 1939-45 war. In 1947 they won the tender
for bookmakers’ boards issued by the VRC and AJC.
Diecasters Australia, a Melbourne manufacturer,
produced about 500 boards of zinc alloy sourced
from wartime metal scrap.
In NSW the new boards were first used at Randwick
in September 1947, when 110 betting boards were
installed in the Paddock betting ring. The Miller and
Napthine board was a dramatic improvement over
the chalk boards, notably in its capacity to change
the odds for each horse instantaneously in either
direction by the rotation of a single knob. This
innovation formed the basis of the Patent (number
130 892) issued in January 1949. It was achieved
using a sliding gear on a central spindle with rollers
and a ribbon printed on both sides.
As well as rapid changes of odds, the betting board
improved the visibility of the odds display. Painted
green to blend with the racetrack environment, the
boards were hung on tall metal frames from the two
protruding bracket plates elevating them above the
crowds to provide an unobstructed view. The bettingboard could also display the odds on either side
simultaneously. This was of particular advantage to
the Rails bookmakers located along the railing
dividing members in the Paddock enclosure from the
non-members. Only the original 500 boards were
manufactured. Miller and Napthine then ran a
profitable business hiring these boards out to
bookmakers. They also supplied the printed cards
listing the field for each race meeting which were
inserted in the boards. As well as Randwick,
Flemington and other city racecourses, the boards
were used on provincial tracks in Victoria and NSW.
A later generation of boards was produced by
totalisator manufacturers, featuring decimal odds.
Most of the Miller and Napthine machines were
modified with decimal ribbons, bringing them into line
with the totalisator. It was felt by the racing clubs that
decimal betting prices would be more readily
understood by new generations of fraction-illiterate
punters. The board acquired by the Powerhouse is
one of the very few to retain the Imperial ribbon.
Bookmakers now account for a diminishing share of
the gambling dollar; their profitability is threatened by
the availability and legality of off-course fixed-price
betting. Yet for over a century bookies provided
punters an efficient service; competition ensuring that
their profit margins were slim in comparison to the
TAB and other rivals. Bookies and their clients also
gave gambling a human face, an appealdisappearing before the rise of corporate gambling.
Gambling in Australia: thrills, spills and social ills opens on 7 April 2004.Supported by G-Line (NSW)
A BOOKMAKERS’ BOARDIS ACQUIRED FOR ANUPCOMING EXHIBITIONABOUT GAMBLING.
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BOOKMAKER AND BOARD AT ROYAL RANDWICK, ABOUT 1968. THE BOARDACQUIRED BY THE MUSEUM IS IDENTICAL TO THIS ONE.PHOTO BY DAVID MIST, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM COLLECTION.
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membersprograms
and services
from themembersmanager
The Powerhouse Members
department is committed at all
times to delivering the best
possible variety of programs
and quality of service to our
Members. With this in mind weare undertaking a survey to
give you the opportunity to let
us know how we can best
meet your needs.
All you need to do is visit our
website and respond to our
questionnaire:
www.powerhousemuseum.
com/members/survey/
You will automatically go into
the draw to win one of the
following prizes:
+ 1 family ticket (2 adults, 2
children) to our exclusive
Members New Year’s Eve
event at Sydney Observatory
(questionnaire must be
completed and sent before
close of business Friday 19
December 2003) or
+ A case of wine from the
Museum's new corporate
partner, Bimbadgen Estate or
+ A $300 gift voucher to
spend in the Powerhouse
Museum Shop.
What a year it’s been for
Powerhouse Members. During
2003 our membership reached
a record level of more than
23 000. It’s been an exciting
and challenging time for us
and we continue to work
behind the scenes to improve
our service to members. One
innovation I’m excited about is
the linking of our Members’
database to the Museum’s
admission system. Look out for
your new membership card in
the mail soon. Your admission
to the Museum will be thatlittle bit faster with your new
card. Our monthly e-bulletin is
a great way for us to keep you
up-to-date with events in
between issues of Powerline . If
you haven’t already done so,
forward us your email address.
And I encourage you to fill out
our online survey (details
above) so we can cater our
services and programs to your
needs.
As well as being a fun-filled
family outing, this year’s
Christmas party is going to be
a handy way to fill those
Christmas stockings. We’ll
have the ever-popular kids
craft workshops as well as
lucky door prizes from the
Powerhouse shop. New Year’s
Eve at the Observatory is
always a spectacular night and
this exclusive event is certainly
one of the outstanding
benefits of being a
Powerhouse Member. So don’t
miss out, book soon.
I want to sincerely thank all
members for your support over
the year, and wish you all a
joy-filled and safe festive
season.
Jane Turner
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NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS ON SYDNEY HARBOUR.PHOTO BY RENEE NOWYTARGER/NEWSPIX.
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Wednesday 31 DecemberNew Year’s Eve at Sydney Observatory
View the spectacular skies through the Observatory’s
telescopes, enjoy a casual meal, marvel at the city’s
fireworks, mingle with friends and other members at
this exclusive event. This is one of the best venues in
Sydney for New Year’s Eve.
Cost: members – $130adult/$110concession/$90
child/$390 family (2A &2C); guests – $170 adult/$140
concession/$110 child/$490 family (2A & 2C)
Wednesday 21 JanuaryInteractive cricket 2004: exclusive members sessions
Come along to the SoundHouse™ and play in
Australia’s first 11. Members and their friends can play
the new Cricket 2004 computer game in the
Museum’s fantastic digital media studio.
10.00 am – 3.00 pm (four separate sessions)
Cost: free
Saturday 17 JanuaryVideo project: My Museum
Reveal your favourite objects, exhibitions, views and
locations within the Powerhouse Museum using the
SoundHouse™ media resources including digital video
cameras, and music and video software.
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Cost: $75 family (2A &2C), $45 individuals
Sunday 1 February
Exhibition walk through: Sport exhibitionJoin curator Anni Turnbull for a tour of this exhibitionthat looks at sport from many angles. With more than500 sporting treasures on show, you’ll see CathyFreeman’s full bodysuit and Ian Thorpe’s Speedo fastskin swimsuit from the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
10.00 am – 12.00 pm
Cost: members $5/guests $10
Saturday 6 February
Exhibition walkthrough: EcoLogicJoin curator Sandra McEwen to look at the major
issues behind the worldwide push for ecological
sustainability that is fuelling the next great industrial
revolution. Find out what you can do to contribute.
10.00 am – 12.00 pm
Cost: members $5/guests $10
Sunday 7 DecemberMembers Christmas party
Join us for a varied program of events running all
afternoon, including craft activities for the kids, carols
for the whole family and plenty of Christmas cheer.
Drop in for an hour or stay the whole afternoon.
2.00 – 5.00 pm including refreshments
Cost: members only – $18 adult/$10 child/$48 family(2A & 2C).
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MEMBERS ON THE OBSERVATORYBALCONY WATCH THE TIME BALLDROP. BELOW: VISITORS INSIDETHE OLD SIGNAL STATION.
MUSEUM TRUSTEE MR ANTHONYSUKARI (LEFT) AND DIRECTOR DRKEVIN FEWSTER THANK MRGEORGE HANNA (RIGHT) OFHANNA’S UPHOLSTERY FOR HISCONTRIBUTION TO THE NEWMEMBERS LOUNGE – THERECOVERING OF OUR CHAIRS INSTUNNING RED!PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD.
THE NOVOTEL SYDNEY ON DARLING HARBOUR. PHOTO COURTESY NOVOTEL.
Introduce a new member to
the Museum before 31
December 2003 and you
could win a weekend at
Novotel Sydney on Darling
Harbour, the official hotel of
the Powerhouse Museum for
interstate and international
visitors. Uniquely situated in
the heart of Darling Harbour,
Novotel Sydney on Darling
Harbour is an easy walk to the
Powerhouse Museum,
Harbourside Shopping Centreand the delights of Chinatown.
The hotel features spectacular
views and world class facilities
including a fabulous restaurant
and cocktail bar, an outdoor
swimming pool, tennis court
and sauna.
To celebrate their partnership
the Powerhouse Museum and
Novotel Sydney on Darling
Harbour are offering one
Powerhouse Museum member
the opportunity to win a
weekend for two adults and
two children staying at the
Novotel Sydney on Darling
Harbour.
Win a weekend package of 2
nights accommodation and
win aweekend atNovotel
Members enjoyed a day
at Sydney Observatory
on 18 October with tours,
talks and special
viewings.
breakfast for 2 adults and 2
children at the Novotel Sydney
on Darling Harbour simply by
introducing a new member to
the Museum before 31
December 2003. The winner
will be drawn on 9 January
2003 and notified by
telephone with the results
printed in the Autumn 2004
issue of Powerline.
Conditions of entry
1. The prize must be taken within 6 monthsof notification and is subject to availability.The prize cannot be taken on a publicholiday or a special event occasion. 2.Entry is open to Powerhouse Museummembers (other than employees of NovotelSydney on Darling Harbour and the
Powerhouse Museum) who refer a newmember to the Museum prior to 31December 2003. 3. The competition isopen from 24 November to 31 December.4. The winner will be drawn at random fromeligible entries at the promoter’s premises,500 Harris Street, Ultimo, 2007 byrepresentatives from the PowerhouseMuseum on 9 January 2004. 5. Thejudges’ decision is final and nocorrespondence will be entered into. 6.Total prize valued at $772.00. 9. The prizeincludes two nights accommodation withbreakfast for two adults and two children(16 years and under) staying at the NovotelSydney on Darling Harbour in a DarlingHarbour View Room. The accommodationwill be in one room with two double beds.The winner must arrange and meet allcosts associated with travel to Sydney. Theprize is not transferable or exchangeable
for cash. 10. Any change in the value ofthe prize occurring between competitioncommencement and the date the prize isclaimed is not the responsibility of thepromoter. 11. The prize winner will benotified by telephone.
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For the Sport: more than
heroes and legends exhibition ,
Museum sponsor Sharp has
provided Powerhouse
Members with a fabulous prize
to be won by a lucky member.
The Sharp home entertainment
system is valued at more than$4000 and includes
+ LC20B4M AQUOS 50cm LCD
colour television
+ SDAT1000W digital audio
system
+ DVNC80X DVD VCR Combo
Unit
All Powerhouse memberships
current on 18 July 2004 will be
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automatically entered in the
draw. It’s a wonderful incentive
for keeping your membership
current, and for giving a
Museum membership as a gift.
You can see the home
entertainment system on
display in the Museum’s foyerthroughout the Sport: more
than heroes and legends
exhibition.
Go to www.powerhousemuseu
m.com/members for details of
competition terms and
conditions.
PHOTO FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSESONLY, NOT ACTUAL PRIZE MODEL.
IMAGE OF LOUISE SAUVAGE BY BRETTFAULKNER/NEWSPIX.
MEMBERS HAD THE OPPORTUNITYTO TOUR THE OLD SIGNAL STATIONWHICH IS CURRENTLY BEINGRESTORED.
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Christmas gift guide02 Rainbow Maker
$49.95
Colour and movement win me
over every time — especially if
the movement is solar-
powered and the colour
comes from sunlight refracting
through a glass crystal. The
Rainbow Maker is a cleverdevice that combines both
these elements. Attach it to
any window and whenever the
sun shines, it will give you a
free light show. Better than a
disco mirror ball! I recommend
it for anyone who likes a bit of
sunny colour in their life.
Jesse Shore, Senior Curator
Science
THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM SHOP REFLECTS THEDIVERSITY OF THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION AND IS FULLOF GREAT GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. WE ASKED FIVECURATORS AND OUR PUBLICATIONS MANAGER TO ‘GOSHOPPING’ AND RECOMMEND A GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS.
01 Ceramic Plate
$18.95
I like the design of this
ceramic plate, which comes
with matching mug. It is made
by Indigenous arts centre
Keringke Arts, based near
Alice Springs in the Northern
Territory. The ar tists’ worksincorporate traditional and
contemporary Indigenous
designs onto a range of
products. It would make a
unique gift, and I would
recommend it for your mother
or grandmother. The purchase
helps support the artists.
Fabri Blacklock, Curator Koori
History and Culture(PICTURED RIGHT)
04 Sonic Ear
$49.95
Speaking more in my capacityas a father of two young boys
I’ve chosen the Sonic Ear,
which magnifies sound. I’m
always on the look out for
gadget that will fit into the
fantasy world they inhabit. The
idea that they can eavesdrop
on their family, friends and
neighbours is bound to appeal,
as is the ability to tune into the
television from the hall when
they are supposed to be
sleeping. I might even be able
to put it to use myself!
Matthew Connell, Curator
Information and Communication
Technology (PICTURED RIGHT)
03 Book selection
Here are three great gifts from
Powerhouse Publishing. What’s
in store? a history of retailing
in Australia (RRP $34.95) is
ideal for people interested in
Australian heritage. Mod to
Memphis: colour in design 1960s-80s (RRP $24.95) is the
perfect gift for anyone who
embraces the retro look in
fashion and furnishings. And
the 2004 Sydney Observatory
sky guide (RRP $15.00) is a
great stocking filler for novice
skywatchers.
Julie Donaldson,
Powerhouse Publishing
manager
06 Marimekko Bag
$98.00
The Marimekko design has atimeless and universal appeal.
Finnish design company
Marimekko has flourished
since 1949. The vibrant colours
and bold artist-designed
cottons are as fashionable
today as they were when they
were originally created. Women
of all ages would enjoy using
this bag both during our
temperate winters as well as
our lazy summers. The bag
could also be easily sent to a
friend or relative overseas.
Anne-Marie Van de Ven,Curator, Decorative
Arts & Design
05 T-Shirt
$59.95
One of my favourite areas offashion is subcultural styles.
Rockabilly is currently enjoying
a resurgence which has spilled
over into mainstream fashions.
When I saw this T-shirt I
immediately pictured it with
one of the ‘50s-style printed
and embroidered circle skirts
that have appeared for the
spring-summer season. It
would be a great present for a
teenager into retro style. The
appliquéd graphic provides a
quirky edge.
Glynis Jones, Curator of
Fashion of the Year
Powerhouse Museum ShopOpen 7 days 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Free gift wrapping. Gift selection service. Delivery
available. Comfortable browsing atmosphere.
Powerhouse Members receive 10% off selected
merchandise.
For more information phone (02) 9217 0331
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EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future opened at the
Powerhouse Museum in 2001 and its popularity has
grown steadily ever since. Today it is the exhibition
most visited by school groups to the Museum.
Demand for more information about sustainability has
grown too and people are keen to find out how they
can make changes in their own lives. In response to
that demand, a new book will be published in
February 2004.
The book, EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future ,
explains how we can all take action, using resources
and energy more efficiently in order to care for the
environment, the economy, ourselves and tomorrow’s
children. One topical issue that EcoLogic tackles is
water usage. The water restrictions currently affecting
the Sydney region are likely to become permanent as
governments strive to ensure adequate resources for
the city's increasing population. Currently about 95%
of all urban stormwater is wasted. In future, backyard
rainwater tanks and well mulched gardens will
become commonplace. As water becomes scarcer
and more expensive it will make sense to ensure that
all the water-using appliances in our homes are
efficient ones. EcoLogic details the small individual
changes we can make, which will allow us to maintain
or enhance our lifestyles while improving the
sustainability of the city.
In rural areas too, farmers and governments are
teasing out workable solutions to the issue of water
rights. Over-allocation of water rights by past
governments has led to a crisis as rivers, and the
ecosystems they support, degrade. Mismanagement
of water from the Great Artesian Basin has degraded
that resource to the point where some bores are now
running dry. The land too is in crisis. Over-clearing of
native vegetation has resulted in soil salinity and
erosion. There are solutions to these crises but theyrequire directed effort and the cooperation of all
Australians. The 86% of us who live in cities must
support these efforts because we rely heavily on rural
areas for food, fibre and building materials. EcoLogic
explains how consumer choices can support
sustainable land use and prevent further degradation.
Global climate change is another issue that deserves
our full attention. It's now widely acknowledged that
global climate change is being driven by the build up
of carbon-dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels
(coal, oil and gas) for energy. Greenhouse gases are
creating a blanket around the earth and gradually
increasing average temperatures of air, sea and land.
CSIRO scientists estimate that the Sydney region
could be 6ºC hotter by 2070 and that the frequency
and severity of storms will escalate.
Fortunately our homes, offices and industries can be
designed to use energy much more efficiently. There
are also ways to capture the energy of wind, waves
and solar radiation, thus removing the need to burn
fossil fuels and pump any more CO 2 into the
atmosphere. EcoLogic explores these issues and
provides examples of the many industries taking
steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The
design of products and systems is changing in order
to reduce amounts of materials and energy
consumed. Indeed the need for ecological
sustainability is providing an extraordinary
opportunity for the industrial world to rethink and
redesign. As consumers we can make a difference by
buying products and adopting new systems that
support the principles of sustainability. We can help
to bring about the changes required.
Ecological sustainability is not a fad. It is the most
important issue facing humanity today, just as it will
be next year, in ten years and, hopefully, in 100 years
time. It will provide us with livelihoods. It will provide
us with the clean air, water and the healthy soils that
we need. It will provide community and equity for the
world’s people. And it will protect and support the
unique flora and fauna with which we share this
continent. If we take the opportunity now to be
creative and change the way we meet our needs,
we’ll give our own species a chance to survive and
flourish with them.
Read the book, take its message to heart and live as
if your future depends upon it.
Join curator Sandra McEwen for a walk through of
the EcoLogic exhibition on 6 February 2004. See
details in Members Calendar.
EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future, with over 150 images in colour andblack & white, is written by Sandra McEwen and published by PowerhousePublishing. It will be available from February 2004 from the PowerhouseMuseum shop, selected bookstores and mailorder RRP $35.95. For moreinformation phone (02) 9217 0129 or www.powerhousemuseum.com/publish
The EcoLogic exhibition is sponsored by Holden.
the EcoLogic revolution
THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC IS TAKING TO HEART THE IMPORTANCEOF ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY. A NEW BOOK EXPLAINS HOWWE CAN TAKE ACTION TO MAKE OUR FUTURE A GOOD ONE.story_SANDRA MCEWEN, CURATOR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
THE FIRST BORE WAS TAPPED INTO THE GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN IN1878. SINCE THEN THOUSANDS OF BORES HAVE MADE FARMINGPOSSIBLE IN ARID AREAS BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, MUCH OF THEWATER HAS BEEN WASTED. THIS PHOTO OF BELALIE BORE, WEST OFBOURKE NSW, WAS PROBABLY TAKEN IN THE EARLY 1900S.PHOTO FROM THE TYRRELL COLLECTION, POWERHOUSE MUSEUM.
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It was Canberra’s coldest day in three years and the
Powerhouse exhibition team had spent almost eight
hours loading the Spinning around travelling
exhibition into two enormous semi-trailers for its next
destination. The sleet and bitter wind whipped into
my face, as I star jumped alongside the trucks
monitoring the progress.
Being a travelling exhibition coordinator may not
always be the most glamorous job — braving the
elements is a part of the job I have come to expect
— but it is definitely one that keeps mind and body
constantly on the go. It is also one of Museum’s more
adventurous roles, and it has taken me across the
cotton fields of north-western NSW to the hutongalleyways of Beijing and many places in between.
The Museum’s travelling exhibition program increases
access to our collection and also encourages
interaction and knowledge-sharing between
communities, other institutions and government
bodies. The program currently includes venues in
regional NSW, Australia and overseas. In the last
financial year the Museum toured more than 10
exhibitions to 32 venues to reach a total audience of
almost 400 000 people. Those exhibitions range from
a photographic display of 35 portraits, which fitted
snugly inside two crates, to a major undertaking like
Spinning around , which travelled to two capital cities.
Exhibitions may also travel as a celebration or gift to
another community. The photographic exhibition Old
Peking , which travelled to China in 2002, gave the
people of Beijing their first chance in 50 years to see
the photographs that chronicle their city. It also
celebrated the 30th anniversary of diplomatic
relations between China and Australia. The upcoming
Our place exhibition, which will travel to Athens for
the 2004 Olympics, is an exhibition from the leading
museums in Australia’s two Olympic cities — the
Powerhouse Museum (Sydney 2000) and Museum
Victoria (Melbourne 1956) — developed as a gift to
the people of Athens for the Games.
While the size and purpose of an exhibition can
greatly vary, the development and logistical
organisation remain the same. Developing a travelling
exhibition involves a team of skilled and dedicated
staff from across the Museum with a detailed plan
and schedule for development, loan agreements,installation and dismantling.
At one end of the scale is Spinning around , a
celebration of Australia’s largest independent record
company, Festival Records, and the biggest touring
exhibition the Museum has ever staged in Australia.
It was on display at the Powerhouse Museum from
December 2001 to July 2002. Then over a five-month
period it was redeveloped for its tour to Canberra
and Melbourne. The final content and design
comprised a multitude of parts including: 29 road
showcases fitted with wheels to several hundred
objects, eight theme-panel units (which were also
used to store packing materials), ten audiovisual
units, two interactive units, four larger interactive units
— a drum kit, a sequencer, a mixing desk, a DJ
station, 19 object crates, over 50 modularcomponents to form a sparkling CD title wall and the
housing for the interactive units, and finally panels of
acrylic, flooring and CDs. Then there were tubs full of
conservation reports, object supplies, tool kits, drills,
touch-up paints, bottles of cleaning acrylics and
tissue, labels, bubble wrap and finally the sensational
mirror balls used to bring the gallery alive.
With a truck-pack diagram to assist, the loading took
one full day for a team of 15 Museum staff along with
the contract drivers, forklifts, pallet jacks and hoists to
load two semi-trailers. A team of ten — an exhibition
coordinator, a registrar, three conservators, three
interactives staff, one electronics staff and finally, for
the official opening, the curator — then travelled to
the venue to meet the trucks for the installation at the
other end.
The exhibition took one day to unload all exhibitioncomponents and to arrange the layout within the
venue’s gallery. It then takes almost four full days for
the exhibition to be installed. This includes finalising
the correct layout for the venue, unpacking, condition
checking, installing and stocktaking over 700 objects,
installing lighting, setting up and testing the
audiovisuals, constructing the interactive units,
assembling the title wall and then doing a final check
on each showcase before they are sealed to ensure
all the objects, labels, graphics are all looking their
best. And finally the part that each team member
enjoys the most — hours of cleaning smudges and
fingerprints off acrylic showcase covers!
At the other end of the scale is Works wonders:
stories about home remedies , a small travelling
exhibition developed by the Museum (see story page
20) to allow collaboration with regional museums and
community groups. This exhibition comprises eight
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THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM’S TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONPROGRAM STRETCHES FROM BOURKE TO BEIJING.story_TARA KITA, TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS COORDINATOR
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01 SPINNING AROUND: 50 YEARS OF FESTIVAL RECORDS OPENED AT THE POWERHOUSE IN DECEMBER 2001. 02 CURATOR PETER COX, DESIGNER MALCOLM MCKERNAN AND REGISTRATION STAFF ALISON BRENNAN ANDSTEPHANIE BOAST OVERSEE THE MOVEMENT OF CASES ONTO THE VEHICLE. 03 EXHIBITION COORDINATOR TARA KITA LABELLING OBJECT CRATES. 04-06 ROAD SHOWCASES AND OBJECT CRATES ARE LOADED ONTOTWO SEMI-TRAILERS IN THE MUSEUM’S LOADING DOCK. 07 READY TO LEAVE THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM. 08 THE MIXING DESK INTERACTIVE INSTALLED AT SCREENSOUND AUSTRALIA IN CANBERRA. 09-10 SHOWCASESON DISPLAY AT SCREENSOUND. 11 OPENING NIGHT AT MELBOURNE MUSEUM. FROM LEFT: IAN ‘MOLLY’ MELDRUM, KATE CEBERANO AND MICHAEL GUDINSKI. 12 FROM LEFT: HAROLD MITCHELL, COL JOYE AND PETER COX.PHOTOS 02-07 BY SOTHA BOURN, 08-10 BY MARINCO KOJDANOVSKI, 11-12 COURTESY MUSEUM VICTORIA.
It takes a whole team to develop, design, install
and dismantle a large touring show like Spinning
around . But when it comes to opening night, it is
the curator who becomes the focus of attention
and receives most of the accolades. I usually arrive
at each interstate venue just as the hard work of
setting up the exhibition is complete.
Spinning around: 50 years of Festival Records was
opened by Olivia Newton-John at the Powerhouse
in December 2001. With over 700 objects, it was a
huge exhibition which included heavy pieces of
machinery such as a record press used at Festival
Records to make vinyl discs. It was impractical to
take such objects on tour. The exhibition had to bereduced to a more manageable size for its trip to
ScreenSound Australia in Canberra and the
Melbourne Museum. For a curator, cutting out
elements of the content is as painful as pulling
teeth. Nevertheless the touring version of Spinning
around filled up two huge semi-trailers.
Curators generally suffer from first-night jitters
when a new exhibition opens, wondering how the
media and visitors will respond. With a travelling
exhibition it is more relaxed because I feel
confident that if Sydney visitors have already
enjoyed it, it will be well received elsewhere. By the
time Spinning around arrived at the Melbourne
Museum in August, it had already captured the
attention of the local media. Even my taxi driver at
Tullamarine airport knew about it, and it hadn’t yetopened to the public. The media preview was well
attended and I even appeared with veteran star
Col Joye on Channel 10’s Good morning Australia .
The show’s host Bert Newton seemed genuinely
knowledgeable about Festival Records’ history. The
official opening on the evening of 5 August was
attended by over 600 ‘A-list’ guests who witnessed
a live performance by Amiel, a bright young
Festival Mushroom recording artist. Ian Meldrum
officially opened the exhibition, speaking in
glowing terms about its scope and quality, and
sharing some hilarious anecdotes about Festival
artists. From 7.00 pm there was a three-hour live
broadcast from Melbourne Museum on ABC local
radio featuring acoustic performances, interviews,
quizzes and lots of interaction with the displays.
Celebrity guests included Michael Gudinski, Kate
Ceberano, Brian Mannix from Uncanny X-Men,
Stephen Cummings from the Sports, Greg
Macainsh from Skyhooks and Rebecca Barnard
from Rebecca’s Empire. Even Kylie Minogue’s
parents came along. Col Joye made the trip from
Sydney as a special favour and spoke at the media
launch. Col is a great supporter of the Powerhouse
Museum and donated some magnificent objects
from his performing career.
Taking an exhibition on tour is a costly and labour-
intensive project, but it is also a joy and a privilege
to reach a wider audience and to gauge their
reactions. During one of the speeches I made for
the Melbourne opening I was reminded of how the
people of Victoria’s capital are intensely loyal to
their city. I remarked that Melbourne had been theepicentre of live music in Australia. A member of
the audience snapped ‘It still is!’
Peter Cox, Exhibition Curator
The curator’s perspective
compact modular showcases that are easily lifted by
two people. The entire exhibition can fit neatly inside
one the Museum’s small transit vans. All the exhibition
components will be unloaded, lifted and installed
over two days by two team members who will
transport it around regional NSW. The modular format
means it can be easily adapted to the many different
venues it will reach — from a bush nurses’ cottage in
Lightning Ridge to the local museum in Dungog.
In 2004 the Powerhouse Museum will tour more than
10 travelling exhibitions reaching half a million visitors.
These include:
Works wonders: stories about home remedies
travelling to regional NSW.
Intel Young Scientist 2003 will continue its annual
tour of regional NSW.
Women with wings will continue its original
successful eastern Australian tour to selected venues
in regional NSW.
FRUiTS: Tokyo street style will travel to venues in New
Zealand, Victoria & regional NSW from early 2004.
Sport: more than heroes & legends will commence a
national tour to major Australian cities from mid 2004.
Astronomy Powerpack will tour regional schools in
NSW.
Our place: Indigenous Australia now! will go to
Athens for the Olympics in mid 2004 and then on to
Beijing later in the year.
Gambling in Australia: thrills, spills and social ills will
commence a regional NSW tour from October 2004.
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MRS TERESA PUNTORIERO COOKS UP A STORM IN HER ‘OUTSIDEKITCHEN’ AT LEETON, HELPED BY HER NEIGHBOUR MRS ANGELAPANORELLO. VIDEO IMAGES BY LINDA KRUGER.
Working as a curator at the Powerhouse Museum can
be a tough job, but somebody has to do it. I found
out how difficult things can be when I visited theRiverina for several days in June with audiovisual
director Linda Kruger to make a video with the Leeton
Italian Heritage Group.
We were trying to make serious video, but we had to
stop every day at lunch time and sit down to tables
groaning with homemade pasta, sausage and tomato
sauce. In between times there were samples of
homemade wine, cakes and biscuits, as well as fruit
and vegetables from the local gardens and orchards.
On St Anthony’s Day, 13 June, we were invited to an
Italian community supper after the special evening
mass — another bountiful table and wonderful
company.
Nonetheless we shot over 10 hours of tape for a half-
hour audiovisual that forms part of Works wonders , anexhibition about some of the weird, wonderful and
commonplace ways in which people have dealt with
sickness and injury at home. The exhibition is a
collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and
several cultural groups in regional NSW, one of them
the Leeton Italian Heritage Group. This band of
women is dedicated to preserving the history of the
local Italian community, which first started arriving in
the Leeton area in the 1920s.
The video project began with Linda and me attending
one of the Heritage Group’s regular meetings for a
brainstorming session on the traditional family
remedies they remembered — or still used. We were
bombarded with stories and remedies including
sliced potato on the forehead for headaches, parsley
stalks for babies’ constipation, and reduced red winefor chilblains.
The next week we returned with cameraperson Vince
Bucello, a son of Leeton, and an invaluable asset to
the project. This time we visited women in theirhomes, interviewing them in their living rooms,
watching them work in their kitchens (usually both an
‘inside kitchen’ and a ‘shed kitchen’), and strolling with
them in their gardens and orchards. As we talked
about home remedies, stories inevitably turned to the
times when many of the women were young brides,
newly arrived from their villages in Calabria. Leaving
the communal life of a close-knit village they found
themselves in a place they considered a desert, living
on isolated farms in houses with dirt floors, toiling on
the farm by day and managing the household in the
evenings. A constant refrain in the stories of the older
women was ‘I cried for three months’.
At Easter time 2004 the Works wonders exhibition will
travel to Leeton to coincide with the SunRice Festival.
The exhibition is being supported by Leeton
Municipal Council and the local community will get a
chance to see themselves on video, and inspect their
bottles of home-made tomato sauce (for cuts and
scratches) and grappa with rue (a general pick-me-
up) displayed alongside familiar home remedies like
castor oil (for the inside), kerosene (for the outside),
and ‘a nice cup of tea’ (for all stressful occasions).
Linda and I will never forget the generosity with which
the Leeton women shared their stories, and the
hospitality that they extended to us. And as I sit here
at the Powerhouse, hunched over my computer with
my very ordinary peanut butter sandwich, I wonder
what other gastronomic adventures I can organise for
myself in the name of preserving and exhibiting the
culture of NSW.
The exhibition Works wonders: stories about home remedies is acollaborative project of the Powerhouse Museum’s Regional Programs andServices. The Leeton video was funded by the Migration Heritage CentreNSW. The exhibition opens at Shear Outback in Hay on 12 December 2003.
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WOMEN FROM LEETON’S ITALIAN COMMUNITY SHARE THEIR
STORIES OF HOME REMEDIES FOR A NEW EXHIBITION.story_MEGAN HICKS, CURATOR HEALTH AND MEDICINE
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The origins of the Powerhouse Museum’s collection
began with the Sydney International Exhibition, which
opened in 1879. This was a showcase of invention andindustry from around the globe and was housed in a
massive exhibition hall, known as the Garden Palace.
When the exhibition closed many of its key objects
and displays were set aside to establish a new
museum for Sydney. But barely two years later, in
September 1882, a conflagration levelled the Garden
Palace and destroyed the foundation artefacts of the
Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum.
Joseph Henry Maiden, an Englishman who had
studied but never completed his botanical studies at
the University of London, was appointed the
Museum’s first curator. He faced the task of finding
suitable accommodation for the collection he was
building for the new museum.
The authorities obliged by putting Maiden, the
collection, and his Committee of Management in the
Agricultural Hall, a disused out-building that was
vacated after the closure of the Sydney International
Exhibition in 1880. During the 1880s, Maiden and his
Committee of Management complained of the
conditions in the hall, so much so that by decade’send, the Committee of Management, led by Archibald
Liversidge, Professor of Chemistry, Geology, and
Mineralogy at the University of Sydney, resigned their
commission over many unsuccessful bids to
government to secure a decent building.
Maiden was initially elated at procuring new museum
premises in Harris Street, Ultimo, which he occupied
in 1893. However, his departure three years later to
become the director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens
was partly spurred by the collection ‘overtaking’ the
building. Apparently the open space of the botanic
gardens on the harbour foreshore was more
appealing than a cramped building in Ultimo.
Thereafter, a succession of Museum leaders — Henry
George Smith, Richard Thomas Baker, Arthur de
Ramon Penfold, Frank Morrison, and Jack Willis —spent great chunks of their working lives looking for
better museum accommodation suitable for display
and storage or at least major extensions to the
building in Harris Street.
In 1978 Director Jack Willis received the long-awaitednews from the then state premier Neville Wran that
the nearby derelict Ultimo Power Station would be
refurbished as premises for the Museum of Applied
Arts and Sciences. This was the turning point for a
final determination of the drawn-out negotiations to
settle the ‘building problem’. A quarter of a century
ago, The Sydney Morning Herald editorial ‘Haymarket
Revival’ of 24 August 1978, applauded the state
government’s decision to provide the Ultimo Power
Station for the Museum.
A week later, a relieved Jack Willis, who was only four
months from retirement, was photographed in what
was to become the new museum building. Museum
deputy director Lindsay Sharp was interviewed and
said, ‘When it is restored [it] could be one of the
world’s most fantastic museums’. Some 10 years later
the Powerhouse Museum opened its doors to the
public in 1988.
FOR ITS FIRST 100 YEARS, SUCCESSIVE DIRECTORS OF THISMUSEUM STRUGGLED TO FIND IT A SUITABLE HOME.story_DES BARRETT, CURATOR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
stories from the archives
In September 2004 the institution we now know as the
Powerhouse Museum will begin celebrations for its 125th
anniversary. In the lead up to those celebrations Powerline will
publish a series of articles about significant events, people,
collections and projects from our long and distinguished history.
This is the first article in the series.
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THE NEW GALLERY, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT LIONEL GLENDENNING, BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE.
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exploring
mars
namea star
Fascination with Mars continues andSaturn promises to be spectacular inJanuary 2004.
Earth’s close encounter with
Mars in late August-early
September 2003 certainly
captured Sydney’s
imagination. Over a two-week
period, Mars events and open
nights at Sydney Observatory
attracted more than 22 000
people eager to take a look at
the red planet.
The interest in Mars will
continue into 2004. Currently
there are three space probeson their way to Mars to take
advantage of its favourable
alignment with Earth.
Astronomers hope to gain
valuable information about the
ancient rock and soil
formation, water and climate
of Mars, which may shed more
light on the question, ‘Is there
life on Mars?’.
Two of the space probes were
built by NASA and will land on
Mars in January 2004. Each
probe carries a small car-like
rover. Finding a suitable
landing site, where the roverscould land and drive around
safely, has been a challenge
for astronomers. One site is a
crater into which a now-dry
river apparently once emptied.
The other is a plain rich in
hematite, an iron mineral that
typically forms in standing
water, perhaps an ancient
lake. Each rover is designed to
drive up to 100 metres per day
for several months, allowing
each site to be explored.
The European-built craft Mars
Express should reach Mars inJanuary 2004. Its lander is
called Beagle 2 , named after
the ship in which Charles
Darwin set sail in 1831 to
explore unchartered areas of
the Earth. To follow the
exploits of the Mars explorers
attend the 16 January lecture
at Sydney Observatory by
visiting expert Dr Neal
Newman from NASA.
January is also a great time to
view Saturn, the most
spectacular of the giant
planets. For all details and
bookings phone (02) 92170485.
Dr Martin Anderson
Sydney Observatory
Sydney Observatory is offering
a unique gift which will last formore than a lifetime — the
opportunity to name a star for
a special person or a special
occasion.
Select a star from the Sydney
Southern Star Catalogue,
compiled by Sydney
Observatory (1964-1983), within
your favourite constellation or
by a date, for example
birthdays, weddings or any
special occasion. Your star’s
name is then registered in the
star catalogue. As an added
bonus, all stars are visible from
Sydney and you can view yourstar through Sydney
Observatory telescopes. All
stars are magnitude 6 to 10.
The ‘Name a Star’ pack
includes:+ A certificate (suitable for
framing)
+ A star chart and coordinates
showing where to find the star
in the night sky
+ An evening pass to Sydney
Observatory for one family to
view the star
+ Your name recorded in the
Sydney Observatory ‘Name a
Star’ catalogue.
For inquiries phone
(02) 9217 0485
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FIND OUT THE ASTRONOMICALHIGHLIGHTS OF THE SOUTHERNSKIES IN THE 2004 SYDNEY OBSERVATORY SKY GUIDE , BY DRNICK LOMB. THIS EVER-POPULARANNUAL HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEEDTO KNOW ABOUT THE NIGHT SKY.
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2003 FROMTHE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM SHOP,SYDNEY OBSERVATORY, OR PHONE(02) 9217 0129 FOR MAILORDER. RRP$15.00. SEE INSERT FOR MEMBERSSPECIAL OFFER.
AN ARTISTS IMPRESSION OF ONE OF THEROVERS ON MARS. IMAGE COURTESY OF NASA.
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Sport: more than heroes and legends
LEVEL 4, UNTIL 18 JULY 2004
Discover the triumphs, the fashion, the
science and the passion of sport. In
this highly interactive exhibition you
can put yourself to the test, find out the
latest in improving performance, and
uncover sporting myths and secrets.
Special admission prices apply.
Treasures of Palestine
LEVEL 3, UNTIL 26 JANUARY 2004
The richness and depth of Palestine's
cultural heritage is displayed through a
selection of traditional costumes,
embroidery, jewellery, ceramics and
mother-of-pearl inlay work.
Childhood memories of migration:
images, imagining & impressions
LEVEL 3, UNTIL 26 APRIL 2004
Explores the personal experiences of
children who lived in Villawood and
Cabramatta migrant hostels from the
1950s to the 1990s. Stories, keepsakes,
photographs and multimedia trace their
journey.
DesignTech 2003
LEVEL 3 (MEZZANINE) FROM 6DECEMBER 2003
DesignTech celebrates its 10th
anniversary at the Powerhouse with
another selection of outstanding major
design projects by HSC Design and
Technology students.
Balarinji: ancient culture,
contemporary design
LEVEL 2, UNTIL 30 MAY 2004,WITHIN BAYAGUL
The original trailblazers in Indigenous
design, Balarinji celebrates 20 years of
award-winning work — all with their
signature blend of traditional motifs
and contemporary graphics.
exhibitions atSydney Observatory
Mars: the closest encounter
UNTIL JUNE 2004
Mars was closer to Earth in 2003 than
it has been in recorded history. View
Mars through the Observatory’s
telescopes and learn about the most
recent explorations of the red planet
as well as early astronomical theories
of life forms.
travelling exhibitions
Intel Young Scientist 2003
Campbelltown City Library4 DECEMBER 2003 – 12 JANUARY 2004
Goulburn Library15 JANUARY – 17 FEBRUARY 2004
Wagga Wagga City Library20 FEBRUARY – 21 MARCH 2004
Spinning around:
50 years of Festival RecordsMelbourne MuseumUNTIL 23 NOVEMBER 2003
Works wonders: stories about home
remedies
Shear Outback, Hay12 DECEMBER 2003 – 2 FEBRUARY 2004
Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo7 FEBRUARY – 28 MARCH 2004
Fruits Tokyo street style –
photographs by Shoichi Aoki
The Dowse Museum, New ZealandFROM FEBRUARY 2004
Women with wings: images of
Australian women pilots
Regional NSWFROM 2004
Astronomy Powerpack
Regional NSW SchoolsFROM FEBRUARY 2004
new exhibitions at a glanceDECEMBER 2003_JANUARY_FEBRUARY 2004
MODEL OF LAWRENCE HARGRAVE’S BOX KITE, PHOTO BY PENELOPE CLAY;CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS BILL AND BRENDA STEWART, 1966, PHOTO COURTESY OFBRENDA STEWART; PUT YOURSELF TO THE TEST IN SPORT: MORE THAN HEROES AND LEGENDS, PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD.
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Great expectations:
new British design stories
LEVEL 3, UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2004
Featuring more than 100 British design
projects, Great expectations highlights
the creative process of turning ideas
into products across a range of fields.
Lawrence Hargrave:
Australia’s pioneer aviatorLEVEL 4, FROM 17 DECEMBER 2003
See a selection of box-kite models by
aviation pioneer Lawrence Hargrave
(1850-1915).
Australian Design AwardsLEVEL 4, SUCCESS AND INNOVATIONGALLERY, UNTIL JUNE 2004
Improved versions of the Sunbeam
Mixmaster, Eveready Dolphin torch and
Test Series cricket helmet are among
the products in the Powerhouse
Museum Selection from the Australian
Design Awards 2003 .
Fruits: Tokyo street style
photographs by Shoichi Aoki
LEVEL 5, UNTIL 26 JANUARY 2004
Pink hair, kimono and platform shoes -
discover fantastic fashion from thestreets of Tokyo. Shoichi Aoki's
extraordinary photographs chronicle a
'fashion revolution in Tokyo's suburbs'
from the mid 1990s to now.
CLOSING SOON — DON’T MISS OUT!
Engineering Excellence
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Outstanding engineering projects from
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awards.
Schools Spectacular: 20 years on
LEVEL 2, UNTIL 4 DECEMBER 2003
Celebrate 20 years of the Schools
Spectacular with the costumes, glitz
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from thecollection
This teapot was made by theWorcester Royal Porcelain CoEngland in 1882 and has atransfer-printed decoration inblue and white and gilt.
Purchased that same year, it isamong the Museum’s earliestacquisitions. It was bought at atime when the fledglinginstitution was attempting torebuild its collection after adisastrous fire destroyed theMuseum’s first home and mostof its collection (see story
page 21).
It is one of a selection ofteapots and coffeepots fromthe Museum’s extensive
ceramics collection which ison show in the Level 4Espresso bar. The pots, fromChina and Japan, England andAustralia, represent the manydifferent approaches todesigning and making vesselsfor brewing tea and coffee.