Museum of Applied Arts and Science

The whir of the stand mixer is something many of us will associate with baking delights whipped up in the kitchen.

But when did the stand mixer come to our shores? And what kind of impact did it have on Australian culture? Annie Turnbull is a curator at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Welcome, Annie.

Oh, hi.

Yeah,

okay.

Annie Turnbull, curator at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Thanks, Annie.

So Matt Canavan eyeing off a move from the Senate to the House of Representatives.

The Powerhouse Museum opens this week in Parramatta, the new one.

More than 22,000 visitors are registered to attend opening events that start on Saturday.

The finishing touches are now being applied to the $915 million project.

And the powerhouse program director, Claire Holland... says the to-do list is getting shorter.

She's told the Daily Telegraph all the teams are focused on making sure that every part is perfect for the opening.

So this is the second powerhouse museum for Sydney.

The first one's at Ultimo.

That carriage takes part of place in our main exhibition court when you enter the museum.

And it's actually, it forms part of the Powerhouse Museum collection, which is a major cultural institution in australia and it's on permanent loans well so we actually can't access inside that carriage the key is kept with the powerhouse and the powerhouse send their um heritage people down every few months to to make sure everything's okay with it they dust it down they go inside and ensure everything's kept in in good working order um so that's by far um the the most i guess um prominent display we have there in the hall.

But juxtaposition to that, right next to it, we then have what we call the jail carriage, which used to carry prisoners around the state between courts and off to jail.

So as you walk into the hall on the left, you've got the governor general's carriage, and then on the right, you've got the So you can see both ends of society in the museum hall there.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales opened its new wing in 2024.

The Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta is just about to open.

Why are our galleries getting bigger and is that

a good thing for the arts? Well, interestingly, the art newspaper wrote an article last year where it looked at this phenomenon and I think came to the conclusion that bigger isn't necessarily better.

Just because it's finishing in November, these parliamentary inquiries run as long as they want, and they're their own boss.

There was a parliamentary inquiry that ran into the Powerhouse Museum over two terms of government.

That's how long it went.

I remember that

Thank you so much.

The next speaker is Dr. Ken Silburn, an internationally renowned science educator and STEM advocate based in New South Wales, who I interviewed over 10 years ago when he gave an Einstein lecture at the Powerhouse Museum.

So how are you enjoying the conference?

Look, as with most conferences organised by the Guild, absolutely awesome because it's ideas that you can actually take back to school or back to the classroom and affects what you actually do.

He has multiple works across film and theatre in development right now.

His debut, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, is a memoir published by the Powerhouse Museum and will be accompanied by a year-long large-scale artwork.

Please make him welcome.

So welcome, so very welcome.