Transport exhibition walkthrough

-: Powerhouse Museum Learning :- Support material developed for teachers to prepare students’ visit of the Transport exhibition Transport exhibition walkthrough For school groups please use escalators, stairs and ramps for moving between floors. Take the escalators or stairs to level 1

Moving the crowd Up and over Setting your own pace Further, Faster, Higher Inside information Alternative transport Entrance from the Turbine Hall Honda Insight Transport exhibition has 6 sections:

Moving the crowd

Up and over

Setting your own pace

Further, Faster, Higher

Inside information

Alternative transport

1. Moving the crowd is to your left as you come through the Turbine Hall. It looks at forms of public transport, from the past to the present day. horse omnibus C class electric tram Indicator Board Loco No 1243 Governor’s carriage Signal box & transport social history display such as: a. Travel! poster b. QANTAS 1 st class crockery

Sydney’s main form of urban transport between the 1860s and 1890s. The horse omnibus could seat 11 passengers inside with roof seating accessible by a steel ladder or curved stairway. horse omnibus

Central Station Indicator Board The indicator board stood for 76 years on the main assembly platform of Sydney Terminal Station (Central Station) displaying departure times, platform numbers and stopping patterns.

2. Up and over focuses on aviation as a way of overcoming isolation and distance. Air ambulance VH-AMB Catalina Flying Boat Bleriot XI monoplane Cirrus moth biplane Gondola Microlight skycraft

Dux bicycle Bugatti racing car 3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars. In 1900 Donald MacKay rode this Dux bicycle around Australia in 240 days. This car won the 1929 Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.

3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars. Bugatti racing car Rickshaw Sedan chair Tricycle Bradbury motorcycle & sidecar

You will find the penny-farthing interactive to your right as you come through the Turbine Hall. Penny-farthing

motorcycles Hansom cab Spring cart 3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars.

Sydney hansom cab It was pulled by one horse and could take two passengers. The driver sat high at the rear of the cab. It is an example of a popular design built in Sydney from the 1880s to about 1915.

4. Further, faster, higher : a sound and light experience transforms the gallery into a living environment and brings to life some of the Museum’s most popular vehicles and aircraft. Screen hourly, at quarter to the hour. Further, faster, higher

5. Inside information lets you see inside transport technology and how it works Sectioned 1939 Chevrolet body Sectioned Beyer Garratt locomotive model 6001 Solar powered automobile 'Solar Resource' Gondola

6. Alternative transport links the Transport and EcoLogic exhibitions Honda Insight hybrid car Solar Sailor Ferry model

Solar powered automobile 'Solar Resource' A solar powered car built in a Sydney backyard for the 1987 World Solar Challenge race, over a distance of 3,005 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide. 'Solar Resource‘ finished in seventh place overall, but it gained first place in the Private Entry category.

Online resources & related program materials Transport exhibition, http:// www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/transport.asp Transport exhibition teachers notes, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/education/teachersnotes/transport.pdf Further, faster, higher : a sound and light experience, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/further_faster_higher.asp Locomotive No. 1 exhibition, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/locomotive1.asp Discovery Challenges: Design an energy efficient car, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/further_faster_higher.asp Marvellous Machines Drawing Adventure, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/teachersguide/education_programs.php Railways in Australia and great train journeys, http:// www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/railways / Early Australian aviation , http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/aviation/ History of Rail in Australia, http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/history.aspx Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum collection -: Powerhouse Museum Learning :-

Online resources & related program materials

Transport exhibition, http:// www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/transport.asp

Transport exhibition teachers notes, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/education/teachersnotes/transport.pdf

Further, faster, higher : a sound and light experience, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/further_faster_higher.asp

Locomotive No. 1 exhibition, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/locomotive1.asp

Discovery Challenges: Design an energy efficient car, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/further_faster_higher.asp

Marvellous Machines Drawing Adventure, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/teachersguide/education_programs.php

Railways in Australia and great train journeys, http:// www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/railways /

Early Australian aviation , http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/aviation/

History of Rail in Australia, http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/history.aspx

Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum collection