Last September we quietly launched the alpha version of Go Play, a site that Powerhouse was commissioned to produce for the then Communities NSW (now Office of Communities). Go Play was built to address the problem of the general invisibility of the wealth of great school holiday events, often free or low cost, put on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Powerhouse Museum websites'
Building Sydney Design 2011 as a cross-platform site
July 4th, 2011 2 Comments
It has been over a month since my last post here and everyone has been flat out working on a slew of projects, most of which have just gone public. The lead up to August is always one of the busiest times of the year at the Powerhouse with both Sydney Design and Ultimo Science [...]
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Introducing the alpha of the Museum Metadata Exchange
April 8th, 2011 5 Comments
The Museum Metadata Exchange (MME) is a project that started mid last year (2010) as a collaboration between the Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) and Museums Australia (MA). Funded by the Australian National Data Services (ANDS), the project is key infrastructure to deliver museum collection-level descriptive (CLD) metadata to the Australian Research Data Commons [...]
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The end of the 80s – summing up a 24 month web presence
April 1st, 2011 3 Comments
Recently saw the final days of The 80s Are Back exhibition – the end of a run that began back in late 2009. The website now moves into a ‘post-exhibition’ mode and many of the social media elements of the site will no longer be updated. Given the length of time that these have been [...]
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It was only ten years ago – bringing back to life content from an old website
March 22nd, 2010 6 Comments
Ten years ago, one of the first digital projects I had the privilege of working on in a very junior capacity was for the exhibition 1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece. Timed to coincide with the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the heavily sponsored digital component included a virtual reconstruction of [...]
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Make some slime!
July 17th, 2009 Comments Off
Here’s something completely non-digital that you know you really want to do . . . make some slime! Fortunately one of my team, Kate Lamerton, has been brewing up some amazing slime in the office and she’s popped the recipe up on our children’s website. (Kate is the childrens’ producer in the web team so [...]
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500 posts on Powerhouse Photo of the Day! Win a print!
March 27th, 2009 Comments Off
Today our Photo of the Day blog is celebrating 500 posts! There is a little prize of ‘a print of your choice’ going for the best suggestion or comment on the Photo of the Day for the next 500 posts. The blog has been a great success for the Museum over the past 500 days [...]
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Crosspost – Powerhouse seeks C64!
March 9th, 2009 1 Comment
If you were like me and grew up with a Commodore 64 as your introduction to the world of programming and hacking then this is for you. Over on our 80s exhibition blog a call has gone out. We are seeking one or more C64s and games! We are looking for old C64s with an [...]
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Australian Dress Register
December 14th, 2008 Comments Off
One of the side projects the team launched recently was the Australian Dress Register. The Australian Dress Register will document significant and well provenanced men’s, women’s and children’s dress in New South Wales dating up to 1945. It aims to assist museums and private collectors to recognise and research their dress collections and support better [...]
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