Museum "Power" - the main branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney. Another branch of the museum - Sydney Observatory. Despite the fact that this museum is often described as a science in its interior contains a very diverse collection, among which are the "Applied Art", "Science", "Communication", "Transportation", "Media", "Computer Technology" "Space Technology", "steam engine" and others.

In various embodiments, the museum "Power" has been around for more than 125 years, it holds about 400 thousand exhibits. Most of them are located in the building that the museum took in 1988 and due to which got its name. Previously, there was a substation for elektrotramvaev, and today is a popular tourist attraction in Sydney.

The origins of the history of the museum takes the Sydney International Exhibition, held in 1879, some of the exhibits which were the basis for the Museum of Technology. For a time the collection housed at Sydney Hospital in the same room with the morgue, and in 1893 the museum moved to its own building, where he stayed until 1988.

Today, among the exhibits of the museum you can see the unique things - for example, the world's oldest operating steam engine, created in 1785, the first steam locomotive built in New South Wales in 1854 .  And, perhaps the most popular model of the exposition is "Strasbourg Hours", built in 1887, the 25-year-old from Sydney watchmaker Richard Smith .  This working model of the famous astronomical clock Strasbourg .  Smith himself never saw the original, and its model create the brochure describing the timing and astronomical clock function .  The exhibition "Space technology" submitted to the cockpit layout of the space shuttle in full size .  Much love children enjoyed the exhibition "experiments" in which through interactive displays, you can get acquainted with various aspects of magnetism, electricity, light, motion, etc. . d .  For example, you can learn how to make chocolate, and try it on each of the four stages of the manufacture .