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Mystery object- archaeology
Photography Powerhouse Museum © all rights reserved It’s only fitting that during National Archaeology Week we should have, as our mystery object, an actual archaeological find. This artefact is made...
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Mystery Object
Collection: Powerhouse Museum This week’s mystery object has a 25 cm steel shaft and a wooden handle on one end. Is it? a) a device for removing tulip bulbs from the ground b) a device to remove teeth...
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Mystery Object (go on…have a guess)
Collection: Powerhouse Museum This week’s mystery object is one of my favourite objects from our collection. It is about 10cm in diameter and quite solid. Is it…? a) a hairball from the stomach of a...
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Mystery object
Collection: Powerhouse MuseumThis week’s mystery object had me guessing. It is quite striking at 600 mm tall, with a timber drum, curved ironwork and highly ornate gilt maker’s plate. Is it a: a)...
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Steamfest 2011 Mystery Object Revealed
Photography © Powerhouse Museum, all rights reserved Would you have guessed the mystery rail object on display in the Museum’s marquee at Steamfest this year? Visitors to this event held in Maitland...
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Steamfest 2012 Mystery Object Revealed
Collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. 86/741. Gift of the State Rail Authority Archives, 1986. Would you have guessed the mystery rail object on display in the Museum’s marquee at Steamfest this...
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The Museum’s fotoplayer comes to life again
The player piano is on the left and the organ pipes and effects box on the right H10302 The Powerhouse Museum’s Style 20 Fotoplayer is a wonderful instrument on display in the Kings Cinema within the...
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Mystery Beatles object
2012/50/1 Shop display, mechanical, The Beatles, wood / metal, maker unknown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1963-1964. Collection: Powerhouse Museum. The Museum has started to develop a new...
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Steamfest 2013 Mystery Object Revealed
Powerhouse Museum Collection, object H6854. Would you have guessed the mystery object on display in the Museum’s marquee at Steamfest this year? Visitors to this event held in Maitland over the weekend...
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Steamfest 2014 Mystery Object revealed
Powerhouse Museum Collection, object 86/370. Would you have guessed the mystery object on display in the Museum’s marquee at Steamfest this year? Visitors to this event, held in Maitland over the...
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