Description |
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Introduction : three days in the life of a museum / Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber -- Founding : South Kensington comes to Sydney / Roy MacLeod -- Exhibiting : wonders of the world on show / Ross Gibson -- The good old days! : a visitor remembers / Peter Tyler -- 'The first of its kind' / Campbell Bickerstaff -- Prescribing : salutary instruction at the museum / Megan Hicks and Martha Sear -- Instructing : the museum and technical education / Lucy Taksa -- Empowering : applied research and the commercial museum 1880-1978 / Roy MacLeod and Kimberley Webber -- Improving : art in the service of industry 1880-1940 / Linda Young -- The many sides of Charles Laseron / Jill Chapman -- Imagining : representing Australia / Richard White -- The Guildhall gift of British antiquities / Paul Donnelly -- Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson / Glynis Jones -- The secret life of the Strasburg clock / Graeme Davison -- Earnshaw's excellent timekeepers / Nick Lomb -- The golden fleece : new life for a once-lost collection / Brigid Hains and Sandra McEwen -- Remembering Lawrence Hargrave / Tim Sherratt -- The comet windmills archive / Graham Clegg -- Ernie Crome, museum philanthropist / Michael Lea -- A computer in place of a hairdresser / Lindsay Barrett and Matthew Connell -- The heroic age of steam / Graeme Davison and Debbie Rudder -- Florence Broadhurst's fabulous foils / Anne-Marie Van de Ven -- The art of Peter Chang / Louise Mitchell -- Dreaming : power house, dreaming house / Elizabeth Farrelly -- Realising : memories, reminiscences and thoughts / Jennifer Sanders and Lionel Glendenning -- Positioning : on site and in situ / Peter Spearritt -- Continuing : into the future / Kevin Fewster |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Bibliography: p. 280 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Powerhouse Museum -- History -- Pictorial works.
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Powerhouse Museum -- History.
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Power House Museum (N.S.W.)
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Technological Museum (Sydney, N.S.W.)
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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- History.
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Technological Museum (N.S.W.) -- History
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Powerhouse Museum.
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Museums -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
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Museums -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Pictorial works.
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Illustrated works.
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Author |
Davison, Graeme, 1940-
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Webber, Kimberley.
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Powerhouse Museum.
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LC no. |
2005472521 |
ISBN |
0868409855 paperback |
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