What's a better way to spend New Year's Eve day, than at a museum?
Today we're exploring the Powerhouse Museum. I did an okay job of getting photos of the descriptions for this first exhibit, so I won't be writing much.
Today we're exploring the Powerhouse Museum. I did an okay job of getting photos of the descriptions for this first exhibit, so I won't be writing much.
This warning is out of respect for Aboriginal "Avoidance" customs.
This one on the right is believed to be Australia's oldest surviving wedding dress.
12-Aug-1822 marriage of Ann Marsden and Rev. Thomas Hassall.
31-Jan-1877 marriage of Henry Paters and Elizabeth Fyfe.
I'm regularly amazed at how little men's dress fashion has changed. I feel like a gent could wear this to a black tie event today and no one would think it was out of place.
~1880 marriage of Janet McDonald and unknown partner.
"Well into the middle of the 20th century, state laws regulated who Indigenous Australians could or could not marry."
A wedding bonnet from ~1875.
What's a wedding dress without some fabulous shoes?
Hips for days on these dresses.
My photo of the info for this dress is blurry.
Anyway, June 1938 marriage of Muriel Paulter and John Crowe.
From left to right: Lingerie Dressing, Garden Wedding, and Practical Pantsuit.
A beautiful progression of dresses.
Nicole Kidman's wedding dress for her marriage to Keith Urban on 25-Jun-2006.
Okay enough about wedding dresses.
Onto other things!
There was a really interesting special exhibit happening called Future Park.
I wanted to participate, even though it was geared towards kids under 12.
I made a UFO and Dan made a "fire" truck.
I found my 3D UFO!
And here's Dan's "fire" truck!
There was another area where you could make a person. The swirly dress girl is mine.
And another crazy area where you could run around and the lights and animals would respond to your footfalls.
Dan made a lightning bird and I made an alligator.
I couldn't find Dan's bird, but I found my alligator.
It was a really fun inter-active exhibit. We might be older than 12, but we both enjoyed it.
Onto the next exhibit!
These kids were having fun on the train.
Locomotive No. 1
Locomotive No. 1 hauled the first passenger train in New South Wales in 1855.
We wandered through the Space, Transport, and Experimentation exhibits.
Me, next to Margaret Hamilton, next to her collection of code for the Apollo Guidance Computer source code.
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This was pretty neat, and reminded me of when I took photography. Sometimes after being in the dark room for so long you felt like you went temporarily colorblind.
We also wandered through The Steam Revolution.
Our last exhibit is the Million Dollar Mermaid.
Kellerman wore a variety of materials that I would not consider things you'd want to get wet.
We were pretty museum-ed out by this point, so we wandered back to the hotel.
The sign for the pie shop across the street from the museum.
It was closed for the day, so we didn't get to try any pies.
A collection of interesting architecture.
I've really enjoyed our time in Sydney and Australia in general.
Jim and Sherrie were off on their own adventure this morning, but we met up with them in the afternoon for a wine tasting.
We have a very early flight tomorrow, so no one wanted to do anything for New Year's Eve.
I found the local broadcast of the Sydney Harbor celebration to watch in our hotel.
We were introduced to Jimmy Barnes, the Bruce Springsteen of Australia.
Enjoy the fireworks. Happy New Year!!!
This concludes our adventures for today and to Australia.
This concludes our adventures for today and to Australia.
