Day 8 – 18 October 2020 – A Museum

 

Darling Harbour

Bev was at work and with time on my hands I decided that I would take the train into the city and visit the Powerhouse Museum which is in Ultimo near Darling Harbour.  The museum purports to be about science and technology and looked at the changes over time as it pertained to Sydney, and that was how I remembered it. 

 

However, this time there were few such displays and artifacts.  Several planes that had been donated which had been history making, and old train or two and the original James Watt steam engine was some of the exhibits.  Those took up about half the exhibition space and the rest was being set up for other exhibits. It seems it us going to be turned into an arts and design museum for the most part.  They are building two other places, one in Parramatta and the other way out west in Castle Hill. 

 

Nonetheless I spent a couple of hours wandering around it before heading back to Pymble via Darling Harbour.  It was very grey, and rain was again threatening but fortunately there were only spits and bit of drizzle to contend with on my walk back to Town Hall station.    

Looking toward Barangaroo

Ships that make up part of the Maritime Museum