MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
INCORPORATING
THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM AND SYDNEY OBSERVATORY
www.phm.gov.au
ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001
CONTENTS
Highlights
President’s foreword
Director’s report
Trends
Charter
Aims and objectives
Organisation chart
Progress against objectives
Goals and strategic objectives
Exhibitions, programs and services
Olympic Arts Festival exhibitions
Centenary of Federation exhibitions
Public and education programs
Sydney Observatory
Services to regional NSW
Information technology
The collection
Properties
Self-generated funding
Internal operations
Customer service
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M I S S I O N S T AT E M E N T
TO INSPIRE DIVERSE AUDIENCES BY
USING THE COLLECTION AND
SCHOLARSHIP TO PROVIDE
INFORMATIVE, SPIRITED, INNOVATIVE
AND WELL-RESEARCHED EXHIBITIONS,
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES IN THE
F I E L D S O F S C I E N C E , T E C H N O L O G Y,
I N D U S T R Y, D E S I G N , D E C O R A T I V E
A R T S A N D H I S T O R Y.
APPENDIX
The Hon R J Carr MP
Premier of New South Wales
Minister for the Arts and
Minister for Citizenship
Level 40
Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
Sydney NSW 2000
Dear Minister
In accordance with the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies)
Act 1984, and on behalf of the other Trustees, we submit for
presentation to Parliament the annual report of the Museum
of Applied Arts and Sciences for the year ending
30 June 2001.
Yours sincerely
Marco Belgiorno-Zegna, AM
President
Board of Trustees
Dr Nicholas Pappas
Trustee
ISSN 0312-6013
© TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS
AND SCIENCES 2001.
COMPILED BY IRMA HAVLICEK, MAAS.
DESIGN BY TEAGUE MOORE DESIGN.
PRINT RUN: 1000. UNIT COST: $14.33.
COVER PHOTO: VISITORS ENTERING THE POWERHOUSE
EXHIBITION, 1000 YEARS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES:
TREASURES OF ANCIENT GREECE.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAAS PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF:
SOTHA BOURN, GEOFF FRIEND, JEAN-FRANCOIS LANZARONE,
MARINCO KOJDANOVSKI AND SUE STAFFORD,
AND BY ROSALYN INGHAM, NORTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY
AND INFORMATION SERVICE
1. Customer numbers
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2. Customer diversity
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3. Selected acquisitions
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4. Exhibitions
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5. Public and education programs
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6. Awards
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7. Evaluation and audience research
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8. Systems implementation projects
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9. Publications
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10. Staff publications
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11. Staff presentations and related activities
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12. Staff professional commitments and achievements
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13. Staff professional travel
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14. Trustees
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15. Trust standing committees
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16. Guarantee of service
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17. Code of conduct
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18. Privacy and personal information
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19. Freedom of information
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20. Legislative changes
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21. Affiliated societies
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22. Life fellows, distinguished service awards and
honorary associates
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23. Volunteers
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24. Contributing and life members
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25. Members events
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26. Staffing
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27. SES positions
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28. Equal employment opportunity (EEO)
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29. Staff development
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30. Staff list
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31. Consultants
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32. Payment performance indicators
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33. Budget estimates
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Index
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Museum supporters
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Contact/admission details
Back cover
The Powerhouse Museum presented six special exhibitions during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games – the largest suite of any
Sydney cultural institution:
• 1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece • Post a winner! • Olympic torch • Let the Games begin
• Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of a genius • Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the Choson dynasty
offered free to all Australian secondary schools in 2001.
Sydney’s Olympic heritage will be preserved by the Museum, which has been chosen by the NSW Government to
be the official repository of the Sydney 2000 Games Collection of more than 1,100 objects.
The Museum completed construction and fitout of a new schools facility and a new shop at the Powerhouse, as
well as the new object store at Castle Hill.
The 2001 Centenary of Federation program included the touring exhibitions, Births of a nation: women, childbirth and Federation and
Minted, noted, stamped: images of Australia at Federation which travelled to ten centres in regional NSW; and Visions of a republic:
the work of Lucien Henry, presented at the Powerhouse Museum.
The Museum implemented its Regional Internship Program in 2001, accepting four applicants from among NSW museum
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An educational CD-ROM featuring the digital re-creation of ancient Olympia, co-produced with Intel Australia, is being
and gallery workers to undertake internships at the Powerhouse Museum. A second intake is scheduled for later in 2001.
As part of the Wattan project (a Museum-initiated and developed community project promoting the heritage of Arabic-speaking
Australians), the Museum organised and presented the first national forum of Arabic-speaking Australians.
One hundred and sixty interested individuals, including prominent community leaders, read The diary of Anne Frank
over 14 hours on 12 June 2001, the anniversary of Anne Frank’s birthday. This was the first public reading of the
entire diary undertaken in the world.
The Museum’s annual visitation increased 4.5% to 1,111,088 (including visitors to the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Observatory and to the Museum’s travelling exhibitions).
Museum website user sessions increased 81% to 311,856 for the year.
The number of Museum members surged to 13,690 at June 2001 – 51% higher than the previous year.
The Museum successfully relaunched its Corporate Membership program at a formal dinner during the Olympics
attended by more than 170 guests including Bill and Melinda Gates (who had loaned Leonardo da Vinci’s
Codex Leicester for the exhibition at the Museum).
Among the prestigious awards received by the Museum during the year were: the International Society for the History of Technology Dibner
Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2000 for Universal machine: computers and connections (renamed Cyberworlds); and the 7th
Annual AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association) Awards for Best of the Best Website and Interface Design of the Year
for the 1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of Ancient Greece website.
A new corporate identity was introduced for the Museum.
HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
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ANOTHER YEAR OF OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE MUSEUM
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WITH THREE EXCEPTIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AS PART OF
PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD
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THE OLYMPIC ARTS FESTIVAL.
In true Powerhouse style, these exhibitions were enhanced
with a variety of high-tech wizardry, including a virtual 3-D
behalf of the Board of Trustees, I warmly congratulate Kevin for
this well-deserved award.
representation of a statue of Zeus from c. 460 BCE and a virtual
The year 2000 was International Year of the Volunteer, and I
tour of ancient Olympia. These and a virtual tour of the Powerhouse
wish to make special mention of the valuable contribution
exhibition, along with other educational material were co-produced
volunteers make to the Museum. They help the Museum in all
with Intel and presented on the Museum’s website - which went on
manner of front-of-house roles, conducting tours, giving talks - such
to win a number of prestigious awards. An educational CD-ROM,
as the regular Strasburg clock presentations which are so popular
co-produced with Intel Australia, is being offered free to all
and assisting with group visits, including people with a disability or
Australian secondary schools in
frail aged visitors. They also work behind the scenes in almost every
2001 to celebrate the digital
department of the Museum, helping with activities ranging from the
re-creation project, 1000 years of
restoration of steam locomotives to clerical assistance. The Museum
the Olympic Games: treasures of
continues to rely, with gratitude, on the generosity of its many
ancient Greece.
supporters, volunteers, sponsors and donors, who tangibly assist the
The Museum also presented a
Museum to continue to achieve its objectives.
number of other exhibitions in
We were able to thank some special people who have made a
quick-response time, directly related
significant contribution to the Museum over many years at a dinner
to the Sydney 2000 Olympics: Post a
on 2 May 2001 where we conferred the award of Life Fellow of the
winner! (Australia Post postage stamps and newspaper pages
Museum to Mr Kevin Fahy; Mr Trevor Kennedy, AM; Ms Anne
featuring the previous day’s Australian gold medal winners);
Schofield; and Mr Leo Schofield, AM. We also presented
Olympic torch (three torches, including the one used by Cathy
Distinguished Service Awards to Dr Allan Bromley for his
Freeman to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony), and Let
contributions to the Museum in the field of computers and
the Games begin (costumes from the Olympic Games opening
computing (General Division); Mr Jack Willis, Director of the
ceremony). More than any other cultural institution in Sydney,
Museum from 1960 to 1978 (Staff Division); and subsequently, at
I believe the Museum was able to capture the spirit of the Olympics,
the launch of the National Quilt Register to Ms Wendy Hucker for
and share that spirit with its visitors both real and virtual.
services to women’s history (General Division).
During the year, the Museum’s Director, Dr Kevin Fewster, was
I wish to thank the Museum’s management and the Board of
awarded the honour of Member of the Order of Australia in the
Trustees for their contributions to the successes of the Museum,
General Division, with the citation: For services to museum
and I particularly extend a warm welcome to Mr Anthony Sukari,
administration and to the preservation of maritime history. On
who joined the Board in January 2001.
MARCO BELGIORNO-ZEGNA, AM
PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
P RDEISRIEDCETNOTR’ S’ S F RO ERPE OWROTR D
WHAT AN EXCITING AND HISTORIC YEAR 2000-2001 HAS BEEN FOR
CENTENARY OF FEDERATION IN 2001.
The Museum’s Olympic exhibitions and programs were a tour
divisional structure to create a new Division of Programs and
de force, with three international exhibitions of immense historic
Commercial Services - comprised of those departments from each
significance: 1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of
of the other three divisions which are most likely to have
ancient Greece, Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester - notebook
commercial potential. The Division came into being in February
of a genius and Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the
2001, and I am confident that we will be able to report outcomes
Choson dynasty. A definite coup for the Museum to have managed
of this initiative in next year’s Annual Report.
I was very pleased to be able to coordinate the national tour of
I know from the many international and Australian visitors
Anne Frank: a history for today and Courage to care. These exhibitions
I showed through these high-profile exhibitions - including Juan
and the programs devised to
Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic
support them, have done much to
Committee, and the King and Queen of Sweden, that visitors were
convey across Australia the
truly impressed with our suite of Olympic exhibitions.
message of the importance of
Our Olympic exhibitions would not have progressed from
vision to reality without the negotiations and work of many people
tolerance and the value of human
courage.
inside and outside the Museum, and I thank them all. The Codex
A notable feature of its
Leicester would not have been possible but for the generous loan
Sydney season at the Powerhouse
by Bill and Melinda Gates of this priceless document in mirror
was the success of the Anne Frank
writing by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci.
Reading Day. One hundred and sixty prominent community leaders
Bill and Melinda Gates attended a dinner held at the Museum to
and other interested individuals read Anne Frank’s famous diary
relaunch the Corporate Members program on Saturday
over 14 hours on the anniversary of her birthday, 12 June 2001. I am
16 September 2000. We had arranged for the Olympic swimming
sure that the moving memory of this day will live long in the hearts
events of the evening - the first night of competition - to be aired on
and minds of all who were there on the day, as it will for me. I thank
large screens so that our dinner guests could share in the Olympic
the many Museum staff and the volunteers who contributed their
highlights of the night. As Ian Thorpe thundered home to win the
care and time to ensure that the reading was a success.
men’s 400m freestyle race on the first night of competition, 174 people
rose in a standing ovation. A truly memorable night on all counts.
In order to improve customer service and maximise revenue
generation opportunities for the Museum, I have changed the
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Indeed, I thank all the Museum’s dedicated staff, volunteers
and supporters, and the Board of Trustees for their contributions to
the continuing successes of the Museum, and particularly for their
support in my first full year as Director of this great Museum.
DR KEVIN FEWSTER, AM
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
to secure three such exhibitions of world masterpieces.
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THE MUSEUM - FROM THE 2000 SYDNEY OLYMPICS TO AUSTRALIA’S
TRENDS
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CUSTOMERS AND SUPPORTERS
EXHIBITION VISITORS
MEMBERS AND MEMBERSHIPS
TRENDS
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Not counted in the above figures are participants in off-site
programs (as distinct from exhibitions) for example,
presentations of public and education program to schools,
hospitals, aged care homes; lectures/seminars/workshops
presented off-site; or professional assistance provided off-site
to other cultural institutions.
The Museum also had 104 school members at 30 June 2001,
representing some 21,642 students.
WEBSITE USERS
WEBSITE HITS
1999-2000 was the first full year that the Museum had
software enabling logging of website users. The figure for
1998-99 is an estimate.
1997-98 was the first full year of operation of the
Museum’s website.
TRENDS
VOLUNTEERS - HOURS
Approximate hours only for 1996-97.
SELF-GENERATED INCOME
Self-generated income includes admission, memberships, leased operations (catering), shops, publications,
events, exhibition fees (travelling exhibitions), and cash donations and sponsorship.
SELF-GENERATED INCOME
CASH AND IN-KIND
KEY CATEGORIES OF SELF-GENERATED
CASH INCOME
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TRENDS
VOLUNTEERS
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CUSTOMERS AND SUPPORTERS
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CHARTER
CHARTER
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The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) is a
statutory body under the administration of the NSW Premier,
Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Citizenship, the Hon R J Carr,
MP. At 30 June 2001 the MAAS was responsible for the Powerhouse
Museum and Sydney Observatory.
The Museum is governed by a Board of Trustees appointed
under the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Act 1945. Under
the provisions of the Act, the Trustees of the Museum are
appointed by the Governor, on the recommendation of the
Minister, for terms of up to three years, and may serve for a
maximum of three terms.
The Trustees oversee the management and policy direction of
the Museum. The Trust met nine times in 2000-2001 to consider
and give formal approval to major procedural and policy matters
on advice from management. Information about the Trustees is
given at Appendix 14.
The Museum was established in 1879 following the Sydney
International Exhibition which was its genesis.
The Museum’s Board of Trustees, from left to right:
Dr Nicholas G. Pappas; Professor Ron Johnston; Janet McDonald, AO;
Mr Marco Belgiorno-Zegna, AM (President); Ms Kylie Winkworth;
Dr Anne Summers, AO; Mr Anthony Sukari.
Not pictured: Mr Mark Johnson and Dr Gene Sherman.
SENIOR MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
The Director, Dr Kevin Fewster, AM is responsible to the
Trustees of the Museum and the Minister for the Arts, through the
Ministry for the Arts, for the overall management and control of the
Museum and its activities.
The Director is supported in the role of chief executive by the
following senior executive service staff: Deputy Director,
Collections and Exhibitions (Ms Jennifer Sanders); Associate
Director, Corporate Services (Mr Michael Landsbergen); Associate
Director, Programs and Commercial Services (Mr Mark Goggin - in
the newly created position from 28 May 2001); and Associate
Director, Knowledge and Information Management (Mr Timothy
Hart to 23 March 2001; Mr Kevin Sumption from 27 July 2001).
REVIEW MECHANISMS
The Museum engages in several levels of performance review
practices including a performance agreement between the Director
and the Director-General of the NSW Ministry for the Arts, and
subsequently between the Director and the Deputy and Associate
Directors. The performance agreements cover the areas of strategic
planning, resource management, collection development and
management, exhibitions, visitors and others who use the Museum and
its services, and commercial and promotional activities.
Internal review mechanisms include weekly meetings of senior
management (Director with Deputy and Associate Directors), and senior
management reports to the Board of Trustees. Departmental operational
plans serve the commitments of the Museum’s corporate plan.
The Museum’s direction in 2000-2001 was driven by the six key
result areas of the corporate plan: renewal and reconceptualisation
- role and development; renewal and reconceptualisation - people
and process; audience development; access - physical and
conceptual; access - virtual; funding and support.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The Museum’s Senior Management Group, from left to right:
Mr Kevin Sumption, Associate Director (AD), Knowledge and
Information Management Division; Ms Jennifer Sanders, Deputy
Director, Collections and Exhibitions; Mr Michael Landsbergen, AD,
Corporate Services; Mr Mark Goggin, AD, Programs and
Commercial Services; and Dr Kevin Fewster, AM, Director.
In fulfilling the Museum’s mission (see inside front cover), the
Museum aims to strike a balance between presenting major
popular exhibitions and others of particular appeal to niche
audiences which are nonetheless important. The Museum also
aims to balance the presentation of the collection now, through
exhibitions and programs, with preserving the collection for future
generations through collection management and documentation
projects. The Museum applies the highest standards of research
and scholarship in the development of its exhibitions and
programs, and seeks to engage and inform the visitor, whatever
the scale or subject.
Aims and objectives are described further in Appendix 16 Guarantee of Service.
ORGANISATION CHART
PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD
’ F O R E WO R D
MINISTRY FOR THE ARTS
DIRECTOR
INTERNAL
AUDIT
SECRETARIAT
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT
EVALUATION AND
AUDIENCE RESEARCH
COLLECTIONS AND
CORPORATE
KNOWLEDGE AND
PROGRAMS AND
EXHIBITIONS
SERVICES
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
AND RESEARCH
CURATORIAL
- ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- SCIENCES
- TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
- AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY
- INTERNATIONAL DECORATIVE ARTS
AND DESIGN
- AUSTRALIAN DECORATIVE ARTS
AND DESIGN
- INDIGENOUS HISTORIES AND CULTURE
REGISTRATION
- COLLECTION ADMINISTRATION
- ARCHIVES
- DOCUMENTATION
- OBJECT TRANSPORT AND STORES
- LOANS
CONSERVATION
- OBJECTS
- DOCUMENTATION
- ENGINEERING
- PAPER
- TEXTILES
EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT
- DESIGN
- AUDIOVISUALS
- EXHIBITION COORDINATION
- INTERACTIVES
- PHOTOGRAPHY
REGIONAL SERVICES
FINANCES
- ACCOUNTING
- BUDGETING AND CASH MANAGEMENT
- LEGAL SERVICES
- INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- PURCHASING AND CONTRACT
ADMINISTRATION
HUMAN RESOURCES
- PERSONNEL RECRUITMENT
- STAFF SALARIES
- STAFF DEVELOPMENT
- EMPLOYMENT POLICY AND PRACTICES
- INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
- OH&S
PROPERTIES
- PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
- ASSET REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
- EXHIBITION FABRICATION
- EXHIBITION MAINTENANCE
- INTERACTIVE MAINTENANCE
- GENERAL STORES AND TRANSPORT
- TECHNICAL SERVICES
- PLANT OPERATIONS
- BUILDING MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
SECURITY
- PERIMETER AND STORES SECURITY
- CORPORATE CLEANERS
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- IMAGE RESOURCE CENTRE
- IT PROJECT COORDINATION
- INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
- DATA COMMUNICATION
- WEBSITE
- INTRANET
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
- APPLICATIONS SUPPORT
LIBRARY SERVICES
- RESEARCH LIBRARY
- PHOTO LIBRARY
- RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS
RECORDS
ELECTRONIC OUTREACH PROJECTS
- AMOL (AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS ON LINE)
- VIRTUAL MUSEUM PROJECT
- SOUNDBYTE.ORG PROJECT
- SITE HOSTING
MARKETING AND MEDIA
- PUBLIC RELATIONS
- TOURISM
- ADVERTISING
PRINT MEDIA/
POWERHOUSE PUBLISHING
- EDITORIAL
- DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLISHING
SUPPORT
- GRAPHIC PRODUCTION
EDUCATION AND VISITOR SERVICES
- VISITOR PROGRAMS
- EDUCATION PROGRAMS
- CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROGRAMS
- VOLUNTEER COORDINATION
MERCHANDISING
- SHOPS
- PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AND
DISTRIBUTION
VENUE OPERATIONS
- FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
- CUSTOMER SERVICES
- SWITCHBOARD AND ADMISSIONS
- THEATRES
- EVENTS MANAGEMENT
- GALLERY OFFICERS
MEMBERS
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PRESIDENTS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
PROGRESS AGAINST OBJECTIVES IN 2000–2001
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The Museum’s 1999–2002 Corporate Plan (reviewed in June
2000) specified six Key Result Areas (KRAs):
Renewal and reconceptualisation - role and development; renewal
and reconceptualisation - people and process; audience development;
PROGRESS
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access - physical and conceptual; access - virtual; funding and support.
Following is a summary report on progress against key
performance indicators in the Corporate Plan, as achieved in the
period under review.
STRATEGY: REINFORCE AND ENHANCE THE MUSEUM’S BRAND IDENTITY IN AUSTRALIA AND INTERNATIONALLY
PROGRESS
A new corporate identity was introduced for the Museum, with logo and advertising strategy developed. The
branding is now used to promote the identity of the Museum in Australia and internationally through
publications, exhibitions and professional partnerships.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Develop and promote a new brand identity
including logo and advertising strategy.
STRATEGY: DEVELOP COLLECTION STORAGE TO MAXIMISE PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL ACCESS UTILISING APPROPRIATE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Produce a long-term plan for collection stores
by March 2001.
PROGRESS
A plan has been developed outlining collection storage options for the next five years including Eveleigh
Carriageworks or further development of Castle Hill stores. The Ministry for the Arts has commissioned two
further storage studies. Options are dependent on a Government decision on Eveleigh and funding decisions.
Finalise the plan for occupation of the new
Castle Hill F store by July 2000, in preparation
for the completion of the building contract by
September 2000. Building fitout and object
relocation to be completed by June 2001.
The schedule was revised to accommodate the Sydney 2000 Games Collection. The building fitout was
completed to schedule, with the Sydney 2000 Games Collection occupying 70% of the top floor, and plans for
moving into the lower floor well underway. Highly significant objects, furniture and some musical instruments
that have been in unsuitable storage will be moved into the new store.
STRATEGY: DEVELOP EXHIBITIONS, PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES TO BE RESPONSIVE TO VISITORS AND KEY IDEAS, THEMES AND
TRENDS RELEVANT TO THE NEW CENTURY
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Present engaging and innovative public
programs to support and complement
exhibitions. Include at least one major annual
all-weekend festival, commencing in 2001.
PROGRESS
The Wattan National Forum and associated art competition held in April/May 2001 attracted important
contributors and established the Museum as a facilitator of, and contributor to, the developing area of ArabAustralian communities’ heritage.
Other programs included the Lucien Henry seminar, Anne Frank play and diary readings, the SoundHouse Let’s
make a movie interactive multimedia activities, the launch of the National Quilt Register website, Australian
women and their quilts symposium and programs and walking trails around the Births of a nation exhibition
in regional centres.
Planning is well advanced on the first annual weekend festival Planes, trains and automobiles for
November 2001.
STRATEGY: ENSURE THE FRAMEWORK PRINCIPLES OF: FLEXIBILITY; CUSTOMER SERVICE; EQUITY AND ACCESS; AND CULTURAL
DIVERSITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION ARE INCORPORATED INTO MUSEUM PROCESSES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Develop guidelines to assist incorporation of
framework principles into operational plans and
position descriptions by December 2000.
PROGRESS
Completed. Guidelines were drafted and issued to assist with preparation of operational plans. Position
descriptions are checked to ensure they comply with the framework principles.
STRATEGY: INCREASE OVERSEAS TOURISM AUDIENCES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Introduce a section on the Museum website
specifically customised for inbound tourists by
June 2001.
PROGRESS
The needs of tourists are being addressed within the ‘Virtual Powerhouse’ online service delivery project
planned to go live in October 2001.
STRATEGY: INCREASE FAMILY AUDIENCES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Design and promote children’s pathways in
appropriate permanent galleries and temporary
exhibitions by June 2001.
PROGRESS
Children’s pathways have been created in Bayagul and Cyberworlds: computers and connections (formerly
Universal machine: computers and connections) and planned for EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future.
STRATEGY: ENHANCE SERVICE TO AUDIENCES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Review and upgrade services for visitors with
hearing and visual impairment, and promote
them effectively by June 2001.
PROGRESS
Consideration of these needs is now part of an ongoing program for all new exhibitions under development.
Training provided for EVS staff and volunteers to improve services for visitors with hearing and visual
impairment has been implemented and is ongoing.
A new project, Seeing blind (funded by the Australia Council), being implemented from June to December
2001, offers people who are blind or vision impaired the chance to see through the use of music.
STRATEGY: USE THE INTERNET AND INTRANET TO DELIVER KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION AND SERVICES TO THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Enhance the Museum’s website by June 2001
by: developing a public enquiries facility for
frequently asked questions; providing fact
sheets; providing email contact details; and
providing links pages.
PROGRESS
Completed. New search facilities have been added to the site which allow users quick and easy access to
collection, public programs, education, venue and function information. Staff email contact details and links
to Powerhouse projects have also been added.
STRATEGY: DEVELOP AND PROMOTE CURRICULUM-CENTRED WEB-BASED ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Produce online curriculum-focussed case
studies in partnership with the Curriculum
Support Directorate of the NSW Department of
Education and Training for HSC students,
hosted on the Museum’s website from July 2000
to November 2001.
PROGRESS
Case studies were completed by the Museum and a teachers preview conducted in June 2000. The case
studies are on a test site and will go live upon approval from the Department of Education and Training.
STRATEGY: INCREASE REVENUE AND SUPPORT FROM CURRENT SOURCES
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Review by July 2001 the Museum’s catering
needs to ensure optimum service and returns.
PROGRESS
Review completed and new catering arrangements commenced May 2001 (see page 19 for details).
Subject to the outcomes of the Access Study,
review by July 2001 all factors connected with
revenue generation.
A new division, Programs and Commercial Services, was established in February 2001 and a new Associate
Director appointed in May 2001 providing new strategic focus to all revenue generation.
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STRATEGY: OPTIMISE ACCESS TO THE MUSEUM DURING THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC PERIODS IN 2000 AND THE CENTENARY
OF FEDERATION IN 2001
PROGRESS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Finalise and implement the Museum’s plans for Suite of major exhibitions presented to complement the Olympic and Paralympic Games included: 1000 years of
the program of events scheduled for the the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece (accompanied by a major award-winning website); Leonardo da
Olympic and Paralympic periods in 2000 and Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of a genius; Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the Choson Dynasty
as well as smaller displays including Post a winner!; Let the Games begin! and Olympic torches.
the Centenary of Federation in 2001.
Exhibitions and programs presented relating to the Centenary of Federation: Lucien Henry: visions of a
republic; Citizens and the city and Federation parade costumes at the Powerhouse and the touring exhibitions
Births of a nation: women, childbirth and Federation and Minted, noted and stamped: images of Australia at
Federation. These exhibitions were complemented by programs, publications and other services.
GOALS 2001–2002
COMMENCING
July 2001
July 2001
August 2001
August 2001
September 2001
October 2001
November 2001
December 2001
December 2001
March 2002
June 2002
June 2002
Continuing
KEY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
MAXIMISING THE POTENTIAL OF THE COLLECTION
To develop the Museum’s collection, scholarship, expertise and unrealised
potential.
A specific concern is the expiry in 2005 of the lease on the Jones Street,
Ultimo, store which houses medium-sized objects. This presents a critical
challenge for the Museum which must find alternative storage of at least
6,000 m2 to relocate the many objects stored there. The process of building
and/or sourcing and adapting a store to museum conservation and security
specifications, installing suitable storage components, and planning and
implementing the move of many thousands of objects is time-consuming
and complex. The Museum is awaiting a decision from Government about
the direction it would prefer the Museum storage options to take.
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DEVELOPING OUR AUDIENCES
The Museum will continue to develop onsite, offsite and virtual audiences
of all ages and backgrounds. In particular, the Museum will continue to
seek ways of improving access between it, Darling Harbour and the CBD.
EXPANDING OUR IT CAPACITY
The Museum will continue to foster its leading edge capabilities in
information and communications technologies.
DEVELOPING OUR FUNDING AND INCOME STREAMS
The Museum will seek to optimise self-generated funding by increasing revenue
and support from current sources and by identifying new revenue streams.
DEVELOPING OUR PARTNERSHIPS
The Museum will, in particular, continue to develop outreach programs for
and partnerships with communities and individuals in regional NSW.
OBJECTIVES
EXHIBITION, PROGRAM OR SERVICE
Spectacular! Spectacular! On the set of Moulin Rouge: an exhibition of costumes from the film.
Regional services: permanent appointment of a Regional Services Coordinator to develop services to regional New South Wales.
EcoLogic: a new permanent exhibition examining sustainable lifestyles and industries.
Marc Newson: design works: a retrospective exhibition about Sydney-born Marc Newson, one of the world’s most innovative,
versatile and high-profile designers.
Celebrating Australia: identity by design exhibition: USA tour in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
and assisted by a Centenary of Federation Grant.
Virtual Powerhouse: will enable enhanced experience of the Museum’s exhibitions through its award-winning website.
Trade winds: arts of South East Asia from the Powerhouse Museum collection: an exhibition and complementary book of
decorative arts and design objects of all media.
Spinning around: 50 years of Festival Records: marking the 50th anniversary of Australia’s oldest independent record company.
Publications: Observer and observed: a pictorial history of Sydney Observatory and Observatory Hill - a book of historical and
contemporary impressions of Sydney Observatory (to be published December 2001); and Women with wings: portraits of Australian
women aviators - a book celebrating more than 50 years of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (to be published January 2002).
Two-wheeled warriors: a history of Harley Davidson in Australia: an exhibition offering a look at 100 years of Harley Davidson in Australia.
Web hosting: the Museum will expand its ability to host cultural websites.
Collection information system (CIS): implementation of the new CIS will be underway.
Members: continue to expand the range of programs and events available to Members.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
OLYMPIC ARTS FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS
The Museum presented three international exhibitions of
immense historic significance, each with a publication, as its
contribution to the Olympic Arts Festival: 1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient Greece; Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex
Leicester – notebook of a genius; and Earth, spirit, fire: Korean
masterpieces of the Choson dynasty. See Appendix 4 for information
about other exhibitions presented in the Olympic period.
OLYMPIC TREASURES OF ANCIENT GREECE
The Powerhouse Museum presented the extremely popular
1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece
exhibition, attracting 95,723 visitors (including almost 15,000
students and teachers), from 18 July to 15 November 2000. It
included 54 rare antiquities – Greek national treasures – in
bronze, marble and clay, from the 8th century BCE to the 3rd
century AD. These extraordinary objects had never before been seen
outside Greece, and are unlikely to travel again in our lifetime.
MR BILL GATES ADDRESSES GUESTS AT THE CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP
RELAUNCH DINNER.
LEONARDO’S CODEX LEICESTER
The Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of a
genius exhibition featured one of Leonardo da Vinci’s original
hand-written scientific notebooks, loaned by Bill and Melinda
Gates. It provided a rare insight into the inquiring mind of this
Renaissance artist, scientist and thinker as well as an exceptional
illustration of the link between art and science. Leonardo’s
observations and theories were brought to life through an
interactive CD-ROM program. A timeline brought together the arts,
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science and politics of the era. Museum objects to which
Leonardo’s theories could be applied had ‘inspiration point’ labels
OLYMPIC ARTS FESTIVAL
added to them, to extend the reach of Leonardo/Codex exhibition
themes throughout the Museum. They showed how Leonardo’s
visionary ideas from 500 years ago had been incorporated into
ONE OF THE GREEK TREASURES ON DISPLAY AT THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM: VOTIVE RELIEF
OF A VICTORIOUS YOUTH CROWNING HIMSELF, FROM SOUNION, GREECE, 470-460 BCE.
NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, ATHENS.
In true Powerhouse style, the Museum enhanced the exhibition by
developing highly interactive components through the use of cutting
edge communication technologies (more information at page 16).
These were used variously in the exhibition itself, on the website
and in a CD-ROM co-produced with Intel which is being offered free
to all secondary schools in Australia in 2001. The components
produced were:
• a virtual tour of the Powerhouse exhibition;
• a virtual tour of ancient Olympia;
• panoramic photographic views of modern Olympia;
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• a 360 3-D view of the bronze statue of Zeus from c. 460 BCE.
THE PREMIER OF NSW, MINISTER FOR THE ARTS AND MINISTER FOR CITIZENSHIP, THE
HON. BOB CARR, MP, LAUNCHING THE GREEK WEBSITE.
future developments in design and technology.
KOREAN MASTERPIECES FROM THE CHOS0N DYNASTY
Earth, spirit, fire: masterpieces from the Choson dynasty was
the first major exhibition presented in Australia featuring
ceramics, furniture, painting and calligraphy from Korea, and
highlighted the outstanding creativity of artists from the Choson
dynasty (1392–1910). The simplicity and beauty of these objects
reflect a distinctive Korean aesthetic, one that strives to achieve
balance between human beings, nature and the cosmos. An
‘inspiration points’ brochure, Scholar’s dream family trail,
describing 12 decorative features to be found in the exhibition,
revealed more about traditional Korean culture and art.
LEFT TO RIGHT: DR KEVIN FEWSTER, AM (DIRECTOR); MR JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH
(PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE); MR MARCO BELGIORNO-ZEGNA, AM
(PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES); AND DR NICHOLAS PAPPAS (TRUSTEE)
IN THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM.
VISIONS OF A REPUBLIC
THE MUSEUM CONSTRUCTED
THIS CHAIR BASED ON A
LUCIEN HENRY DESIGN
Through the life and work of FrenchAustralian artist Lucien Henry (1850–96),
the Powerhouse exhibition, Visions of a
republic: the work of Lucien Henry, traces
some of the international events and ideas
that shaped Australian identity in the
decades prior to Federation. Henry was
one of the earliest artists to propose
a school of Australian public art,
architecture and design. His extraordinary
life, work and vision are expounded
through 570 objects (259 of which were
from the Museum’s collection).
IMAGES OF AUSTRALIA AT FEDERATION
Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901, but it took more
than 10 years to issue its own distinctive coins, banknotes and
stamps. Drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of
numismatics and philately, the travelling exhibition, Minted,
noted, stamped: images of Australia at Federation, takes a look in
miniature at the first decade after Federation. It documents a story
of rivalry and compromise, state powers versus commonwealth
rights, and nationalistic ideals versus British tradition. This tour
was targeted to suit regional and remote venues where there is a
strong connection with Federation, with the tour dates scheduled
to align with community celebrations where possible.
Reached 159,845 people in Narrandera Shire Library; Corowa
Library; Parliamentary Library, Canberra; Parkes Shire Library;
Bathurst City Library; Bathurst stamp, coin and collectables expo;
and Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo.
local content in the exhibition and leave behind a legacy for the
local community after the exhibition has moved on. Honouring this
commitment is a central responsibility of the grant the Museum
received from the National Council of the Centenary of Federation
to develop the exhibition. Reached 28,515 visitors at Orange City
Library; Golden Memories Museum, Millthorpe (satellite exhibit);
Carcoar Hospital Museum (satellite exhibit); and Bathurst Library
(satellite exhibit).
OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
ANNE FRANK AND COURAGE TO CARE
The ideals expressed in the famous Diary of Anne Frank were
presented in the touring exhibition, Anne Frank: a history for today,
(developed by the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam) in a way that
is relevant to discussion about racism and human rights today.
The concepts of tolerance, mutual respect and democracy were
explored in the exhibition and in accompanying programs. A
notable feature of the Sydney season at the Powerhouse was the
success of the Anne Frank Reading Day. One hundred and sixty
prominent community leaders and other interested individuals
read Anne Frank’s famous diary over 14 hours on the anniversary
of her birthday, 12 June 2001. This is believed to be the first such
complete public reading to have taken place in the world.
Courage to care, an exhibition and education program
developed by the international Jewish community service
organisation, B’nai B’rith, uses the historical events of the
Holocaust to teach that the individual can make a difference.
The Powerhouse presented Anne Frank and Courage to care
together, and coordinated the national tour of these exhibitions.
BIRTHS OF A NATION
Births of a nation: women, childbirth and Federation is a
multi-media exhibition about women’s experiences of childbirth
early last century. A number of volunteer-run museums were keen
to collaborate on the project but had insufficient space to take the
main exhibition. The Museum therefore decided to offer them small
‘satellite’ exhibits incorporating a theme panel about childbirth in
the district at the time of Federation, two showcases on the theme
of ‘getting ready for baby’, two empty showcases for local
historical society or museum material and a CD player and CD of
lullabies. Underpinning the exhibition is a commitment from the
Powerhouse Museum to collaborate with each venue to include
MS VERA CVIJETIC, READING FROM THE DIARY DURING THE ANNE FRANK READING DAY.
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
The Museum benefited from significant sponsorship
contributions in the period, as well as having worked in partnership
with a range of organisations in developing exhibitions and
programs. (For a list of exhibitions and programs presented in the
period as well as information on sponsors and program partners,
please see Appendices 4 and 5 and page 65.)
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EXHIBITIONS
The Museum marked the Centenary of Federation with
exhibitions offering a variety of perspectives on Australian society
and culture at the time of Federation. The Museum’s major
exhibition to celebrate the Centenary of Federation was Visions of
a republic: the work of Lucien Henry. The Museum also presented
the travelling exhibitions, Minted, noted and stamped and Births
of a nation (see below), and Federation stories and Citizens and
the city at the Powerhouse Museum (see Appendix 4).
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
CENTENARY OF FEDERATION EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
PUBLIC
PUBLIC AND
AND EDUCATION
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
PROGRAMS
OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
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Education programs at the Powerhouse Museum and Sydney
Observatory attracted 2,562 booked education groups representing
96,096 students in 2000–2001, with public programs attracting
320,626 visitors. The Museum has set the objective of increasing
the visitation of primary and secondary students to the Museum in
2001–2002 from 20% of total visitor attendances in 1999 to 23%
by June 2002. According to available statistics, this will represent
approximately 10% of the NSW primary and secondary school
student population.
For National Science Week (5–10 May 2001), the Museum
developed and presented a series of public programs entitled
Electronica: the science, technology and history of electronic and
computer music. The program included performances on the
Yamaha and Stuart pianos, demonstrations, displays and lectures.
The program was funded by a grant from the National Science
Week Committee, and supported by the Department of Industry,
Science and Resources.
The Museum continues to be at the forefront of the design
scene in Sydney with events such as the fourth annual Sydney
Design Week (SDW) program in August 2000. Extra Design Study
Days for the secondary school audience had to be organised due to
their popularity. In total over 1,500 visitors, particularly from the
design and education community, attended lectures and seminars
associated with SDW 2000.
The success of the fifth year of DesignTech seminars also
confirms the Museum’s leading position as a powerful design and
technology teaching resource. The seminars, presented for year 11
and 12 students in conjunction with the Office of the Board of
Studies NSW, complemented two Powerhouse exhibitions on
design, DesignTech 2000 and the Australian Design Awards. They
addressed specific aspects of the new 2 Unit Design and
Technology syllabus, and were attended by 2,592 students from
27 February to 9 March 2001.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
The IBM Information Technology Centre (ITC) is an education
classroom and demonstration area which provides IT experience to
150 school groups (over 4,000 students) annually. Classes
regularly run in the ITC for students include 3-D design and
computer-aided-manufacturing, multimedia and internet sessions,
image processing and new technologies in the media. The ITC also
ran robot-programming classes as part of the robot-themed
holiday program in January 2001, and special programs to
complement the Leonardo and Lucien Henry exhibitions.
visitors, booked student groups, teachers, adult learners, and
people with a disability (who typically visit as part of communitybased post-school options or recreation and respite programs –
more information about special SoundHouse programs is at
Appendix 2). Visitors who attend in booked group sessions are able
to keep a cassette or CD on which they have recorded the music
(and multimedia projects) they have created in the session.
For information about the development of the Soundbyte.org
Project, which will put the SoundHouse online, see page 16.
INDIGENOUS ACTIVITIES
The Museum presents exhibitions and associated programs
which are in accordance with the NSW Government Statement of
Commitment to Aboriginal People, which itself was built on many
landmark inquiries and decisions in Indigenous affairs, including
the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody –
particularly recommendation no. 56.
The Museum’s first permanent gallery of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander culture opened in May 2000 with the exhibition,
Bayagul: contemporary Indigenous communication. This exhibition
has a unique focus on contemporary Indigenous communication in
the areas of tourism, fashion, performing arts and media. From the
opening of the gallery until the end of the Paralympics, Indigenous
hosts, each a young emerging performer, were employed in the
gallery as guides and facilitators for visitors.
The highlight of the July school holidays was the concert to
mark NAIDOC (National Aboriginal Islander Day of
Commemoration) Day on 7 July. Held in the Museum’s Grace Bros
courtyard, 1,500 people, many of them Indigenous, enjoyed a range
of music and dance performances.
The next major public program focused on the fashion
collection of Bayagul with an Indigenous fashion parade on
15 September. All the models were Indigenous.
An Australian Experience tour was devised for Olympic visitors
which included 20 minutes in Bayagul. It was redeveloped for groups
of young American students which saw two-thirds of the tour, or about
40 minutes, devoted to Bayagul at the request of the organisers.
Several thousand American students experienced this tour.
SOUNDHOUSE
The Powerhouse Museum SoundHouseTM is a state-of-the-art
music technology laboratory which has been fully upgraded during
the year, and offers diverse visitor experiences featuring the latest
computer, multimedia and electronic music software and systems.
Audiences are inspired to become active producers of music and
art, rather than solely consumers.
Participants include general family and student drop-in
MR VICTOR ENOSA OF BIBIR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DANCERS IN A SAIBAI ISLAND
HEADDRESS, 'DHIBAL', PERFORMING AT THE NAIDOC DAY CONCERT.
VOLUNTEERS
The United Nations proclaimed 2001 as the International Year
of Volunteers (IYV). In accordance with the objective of IYV to raise
the profile of volunteering in the community, Museum volunteers
were filmed for television community service announcements. The
Museum also included articles about its volunteers in the quarterly
members magazine, Powerline.
The Powerhouse partners (volunteers at the Powerhouse) lead
orientation walks, conduct tours, give talks, staff touch trolleys,
conduct education briefings, assist with education packages and
school holiday programs, meet and greet booked groups including
those with special needs, and assist people with a disability or frail
aged visitors. They also provide after-hours support for functions.
Partners participated in the effective communication and sighted
guide training conducted by the Royal Blind Society. Partners also
provide outreach services to community groups including seniors
groups, aged day care centres, adult education groups and nursing
homes. In 2000–2001 they visited 13 organisations with a total of
349 people attending the presentations.
Behind the scenes (BTS) volunteers support staff in almost
every department in work that happens outside the public areas of
the Museum.
MEMBERS
Powerhouse membership increased significantly during the
year due to the greater activity within the Museum during the 1000
years of the Olympic Games and Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Leicester
exhibitions; a broader and more active program of members’
events; additional membership benefits and the redesign of
the members’ magazine, Powerline. Member numbers (excluding
schools – mostly individual and household members) increased
from 9,029 to 13,690 over the twelve months – an increase of 51%.
Successful new events staged during the year will become
regular features of the members’ events calendar, including the
New Years Eve party at Sydney Observatory, the members’ dinner
and the members’ open day. Activities focusing on the Museum’s
own collection were developed such as the ‘Talk the talk’ lecture
series and ‘Behind-the-scenes’ tours, both of which are attracting
a growing audience.
Several relationships with other cultural organisations were
developed during the year aimed at increasing the range of
membership benefits. These included discounts from performing
arts companies, publishers and record companies. Members’
reciprocal benefits also extended to include the National Museum
of Australia and Te Papa, National Museum of New Zealand.
SYDNEY OBSERVATORY
The year began and ended with significant astronomical
events. A special open night was held so that visitors could enjoy
a spectacular total lunar eclipse on 16 July 2000. The telescopes
in the north and south domes were pointed at the moon with a live
television transmission of the eclipse from the north dome
telescope to a large plasma screen in the exhibition area. All the
smaller telescopes were set up outside. Near the end of the year,
three open nights were held to coincide with Mars’ closest
THE THREE NEW MICROPROCESSOR-CONTROLLED TELESCOPES AT SYDNEY OBSERVATORY.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
In June 2001 there were 236 volunteers working for the
Museum comprised of 68 weekday partners, 21 weekend partners,
four Sydney Observatory volunteers, 55 working behind the scenes
and 78 special program volunteers for the Anne Frank and Courage
to care exhibitions. In 2000–2001 volunteers contributed 24,323
hours of work to the Museum.
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SYDNEY OBSERVATORY
To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the National Aboriginal
Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), the organisation
held its first National Indigenous Youth Dance Careers Forum at the
Powerhouse Museum on 11 and 12 May. Young people from Cairns,
Warburton, Yirrkala, the Torres Strait and the greater Sydney basin
attended. In return for the use of the venue, NAISDA provided a series
of public programs in the Museum featuring dancers from Yirrkala,
Torres Strait Islands and students from NAISDA.
The Museum also marked Reconciliation Week (27 May to
3 June) with a series of performances and storytelling.
For the period July 2000 to June 2001 a total of 10,134 education
visitors were recorded as visiting Bayagul, ranging from preschool to
tertiary and including a number of Koori groups from throughout NSW.
This figure does not include unbooked groups or general visitors.
The travelling exhibition, Sharing a Wailwan story, provides a
rare insight through photographs into the culture of the Wailwan,
Aboriginal people from central western NSW who were removed from
their land and whose descendants now live throughout eastern
Australia. It was presented to Aboriginal educators at the state
Conference of the Aboriginal Education Consultative Group in
Liverpool in October 2000. The exhibition was opened at the Cobar
Heritage Centre on 27 March 2001 by Yuwaalaraay man, Joe Flick,
who had been a consultant on the exhibition. An extensive schools
program was presented there using the downloadable education kit
and supported by talks and demonstrations. The exhibition then
moved on to the Parkes Shire Library where it opened on 15 June
2001. It has been visited by 4,997 people in the period (not including
visitors to the permanent display at Quambone Public School).
A staff development seminar on Indigenous cultural protocols
was held on 28 March for Powerhouse Museum staff and staff from
other museums.
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SERVICES TO REGIONAL NSW
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approach to Earth since 1988, creating great public interest and
attracting more than 3,500 visitors.
Other events that created special interest included the full
moon in October that fell on Friday the 13th and the re-entry of the
Mir spacecraft in March. As has become expected at Sydney
Observatory, there were many public and media requests for
astronomical information and for interviews.
Major public talks included the annual By the light of the
southern sky lecture, given by John Sarkissian of Parkes
Observatory on the reception of the television signals at the Parkes
Radio Telescope during the first lunar landing in July 1969. A full
house in March heard a brilliant lecture from Dr Ed Stone, Director
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about the search for water and life
in the Solar System.
In May, National Science Week activities included a talk by
Dr Charles Lineweaver of the University of NSW on the possibilities
of life in the Universe; and the performance of a joyous Karl Jenkins
musical work, Imagined oceans (of the moon), performed by the
Wesley Institute Choir and the Western Youth Orchestra, and
conducted by George Ellis.
Three new portable telescopes were purchased this year, two
with mirrors of 25 cm diameter and one with a mirror of 20 cm
diameter. All of them are microprocessor-controlled so that after a
brief set-up to align them with the sky they are capable of
automatically finding any of a built-in library of 64,359 objects in
the sky. They have brought the Observatory’s smaller telescopes to
the cutting-edge of what is currently available and increased the
ease with which interesting objects in the sky can be demonstrated
to the public. The new telescopes were used for the first time with
great success during the three Mars open nights in June.
The Sydney Observatory Robotic Telescope (SORT) on the roof
of the Powerhouse Museum became operational during the year.
SORT’s first users were 80 school children from Spring Harbor
Middle School, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. During a series of
observing sessions through the internet in March and April the
children obtained dozens of images of objects in the southern sky.
An operator in the telescope dome assisted the children in taking
the images. Thanks to the time shift between different parts of the
world the sessions were during school time in Madison so that it
was easy for the children to participate in the observing. After the
sessions the teacher wrote, ‘I wish that I could show you the
excitement over the last two weeks.’
SERVICES TO
REGIONAL NSW
To further the Museum’s commitment to provide services to
regional New South Wales, it has undertaken recruitment action to
fill the position of Regional Services Coordinator, with the position
to be filled permanently from 24 July 2001.
The Museum also implemented its Regional Internship Program
in 2001, accepting four applicants from among NSW museum and
gallery workers to undertake internships at the Powerhouse Museum.
The four applicants were from Uralla Historical Society; Breakwater
Battery Military Museum; Lady Denman Heritage Complex,
Huskisson; and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Two of the internships
were undertaken in the conservation department, one in marketing
and media and one in the education and visitor services
department. A second intake is scheduled for later in 2001.
FUTURE REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
Workshops are planned at the Powerhouse Museum in October
2001 to complement the Museums and Galleries Foundation
Annual Conference.
A symposium is planned for early 2002 to take place in
regional New South Wales to promote programs and partnerships
with the Powerhouse Museum.
PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE
The Museum provided professional assistance or undertook
collaborations with a number of organisations, including:
Hurstville Bakery Museum on a series of conservation workshops;
Wollongong Regional Gallery on storage problems; the Golden
threads project, a partnership with the University of New England
and New England Regional Art Museum to preserve Chinese
cultural heritage; the Museums and Galleries Foundation; Lord
Howe Island Museum; and presented workshops in Dubbo and
Armidale on contemporary approaches to the preservation of
machinery (particularly farm machinery).
CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS
BEYOND SYDNEY
The Museum specifically seeks opinions from people outside
the Sydney metropolitan area for evaluation studies to ensure that
a range of stakeholders’ views are taken into account during
exhibition and program development. For example, the front-end
evaluation undertaken for the new permanent exhibition on
sustainable futures, EcoLogic, involved six focus groups, one of
which was youth from rural NSW. The Museum also monitors the
visitation of non-Sydney residents to Sydney’s cultural venues,
and gathers visitor residential profile information by means of
questions in exhibition surveys and by requesting visitor postcodes
on entry to the Museum.
NATIONAL QUILT REGISTER
The National Quilt Register was launched at the Museum by
Hazel Hawke on 20 May 2001. The Register is a major initiative of
the Pioneer Women’s Hut, a museum located at Tumbarumba,
which represents ordinary rural families, especially women, in their
everyday lives. It opened in 1985 and is a free, self-funded
museum run by community volunteers.
The result of five years work by volunteers from all over
Australia, the register documents over 1,000 quilts. In addition to
describing the quilts and telling stories about their production and
use, the register includes essays about specific types of quilts –
such as Aboriginal possum skin cloaks, Wagga rugs and Greek
quilts – and how to care for quilts in the home and a quilt
discussion forum. As part of the launch, a National Quilt Register
website was coordinated by Australian Museums on Line (AMOL)
and records many of the stories of the register including essays on
quilts and the opportunity to add quilts to the register.
The Museum lent 451 objects in 28 loan transactions in
2000–2001, including tin toy train models and accessories for
display at Newcastle Regional Museum, and anti Vietnam war
posters for display at Casula Powerhouse, as well as substantial
loans and in-kind assistance given to the National Museum of
Australia, primarily for their major exhibitions, Gold! and Journeys
into space.
TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS
Visitors to travelling exhibitions in the period increased 6.2% over
the previous year to 518,158 visitors. For the full list and dates of
travelling exhibitions which commenced off-site tours in 2000–2001,
please see Appendix 4. Following is information about some of the
exhibitions presented in regional NSW. Visitor figures indicate the
number of people who visited the exhibition at venues whose display
period commenced after 30 June 2000. Some exhibitions commenced
in other venues before 1 July 2000 or will close after 30 June 2001 –
so in some cases the total figures will actually be higher.
For information about the Museum’s major Centenary of
Federation travelling exhibitions (developed in consultation with
local communities in regional NSW), Births of a nation and Minted,
noted and stamped, please see page 11.
WATTAN
The Museum has continued to develop its initiative, the Wattan
project, which promotes the heritage of Arabic-speaking
Australians. As part of this community project, the Museum
organised and presented the first Wattan National Forum of Arabicspeaking Australians. This four-day forum brought together people
representing and documenting the heritage of Arabic-speaking
Australians. The forum received sponsorship from the Arab Bank.
The Wattan art competition attracted a large number of
artworks from Arab Australian artists. The award was presented to
the winner by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, Governor of
NSW. The exhibition of winners and selected entries was on display
in the Powerhouse Museum during April and May 2001.
The Museum also participated in an active partnership with
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in the development of the
contemporary Arab Australian arts project, East of somewhere,
which opened at Casula in March 2001.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The Museum’s IT Strategic Plan is consistent with the
principles of the NSW Government’s Information Management and
Technology (IM&T) Blueprint, connect.nsw, and NSW Government
Internet Strategy. In accordance with these policies, the Museum
will increase provision of online services and achieve efficiency
gains through the Virtual Museum project. The Museum is already
providing high levels of electronic service delivery, with an
estimated transmission of more than half a million emails to
external destinations each month.
THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM PROJECT
A GROUP OF STUDENTS ENJOYING THE YOUNG SCIENTIST 2000 EXHIBITION,
SPONSORED BY INTEL, AT THE NORTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY, MOREE.
Young scientist 1999 and Young scientist 2000 tours present
the best entrants and winners of the Young Scientist Competition.
The tour has a strong emphasis on reaching the education
audience in each community and working with libraries to further
discussion about science and encourage future entrants from
regional and remote areas of NSW.
Young scientist 1999 reached 20,798 people in Macquarie
Regional Library, Dubbo; Northern Regional Library, Moree; and Killer
Whale Museum, Eden.
Young scientist 2000 reached 48,977 people in Southern
Tablelands Regional Library, Goulburn; Newcastle Regional Museum;
The Museum is developing an online Virtual Museum, funded
under the electronic service delivery scheme connect.nsw of the
NSW Office of Information Technology. The Virtual Museum, due for
delivery in October 2001, is a significant enhancement of the
existing Powerhouse website. Primary outcomes of the project are
to enable people who are unable to visit the Museum (for reasons
including distance) to experience the Museum online, while
providing a tantalising glimpse of the Museum to others as an
incentive to visit.
The Virtual Museum will enable web visitors to be more
informed about the Museum and also provide easier access to some
of the more in-demand services of the Museum, such as bookings
for education and visitor services programs, updated shops and
members sections, and a dynamic events/venue calendar.
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OBJECT LOANS
Orange City Library; Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo; Northern
Regional Library, Moree; Clarence Regional Library, Grafton.
Women with wings: images of Australian women pilots
presents colour and black & white photographic portraits of 33
women who have played an essential, but largely unacknowledged,
role in the development of Australia’s aviation industry. Following
the success at the Powerhouse Museum, a Visions (Federal
Government Touring Agency) Grant was received to tour the
exhibition both regionally and interstate. Reached 2,067 visitors at
Parramatta Heritage Centre and Back o’ Bourke Exhibition Centre.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The Museum presented a seminar, Australian women and
their quilts, and mounted a display, Plain and fancy, to
complement the register.
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The Virtual Museum includes the addition to the current website
of approximately 65 high resolution zoomable panoramas of the
permanent galleries; the development of a selection of ‘exhibit
tours’; an online storehouse of approximately 200 objects not
currently on display (which will be displayed with descriptions and
using various web technologies including zoomable 2-D pictures
and rotating 3-D objects); and a ‘behind-the-scenes’ section.
http://www.phm.gov.au
The Powerhouse website was relaunched with new interface
and navigation design, and information architecture which will
enable future expansions. Included was a database of 150
significant objects from the collection. All new permanent and
temporary exhibitions now have a dedicated web component.
The Research Library’s FIRST catalogue was made available
online for public searching and contains books and other material
catalogued since 1986.
Australia innovates: an on-line guide to innovation in
Australia’s industries was launched with a collection of stories of
Australian innovations that made an impact in the last century.
Users are able to nominate further innovations to be included on
the site. The site also contains a directory about Australian
innovation, including new and emerging innovations. This site was
produced with support from the Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences and Engineering.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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THE MUSEUM’S WEBSITE
The Museum took advantage of the latest technologies to
present both 3-D images and high resolution ‘zoomable’ images in
a complex of architectural, archaeological, cultural, historical
and contemporary data about the site of Olympia.
A team of curators, archaeologists, surveyors and
photographers travelled to Greece to capture the data sets in high
resolution using laser scanning and digital photography.
The reconstruction of ancient Olympia produced a
dimensionally and historically accurate model of the site as
it would have appeared in approximately 200 BCE. The Museum
also produced a virtual tour of the present-day archaeological
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site (as at March 2000) offering 30 360 panoramas.
The digital facsimile of the statue of Zeus from Artemision (a
national treasure on permanent display at the National
Archaeological Museum in Athens) was achieved using state-ofthe-art 3-D data capture techniques, with laser scanning to submillimetre accuracy enabling the statue to be displayed as an
almost exact digital copy of the original.
The website also offers a virtual representation of the
Powerhouse exhibition, where visitors can navigate through the 14
rooms of the exhibition, zooming in on artefacts and labels, and
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taking 360 views of rooms and selected objects.
The website was one of three finalists in the 2000 BAFTA
(British Association of Film and Television Arts) Interactive
Entertainment Awards (the other two finalists were BBC sites). The
awards catalogue described the Museum’s site as follows:
“A fascinating and highly interactive site, this is elegantly
designed and technically impressive and brings you closer to
Olympian Greece with effortless navigation and appropriate use of
all media, including superb panoramic photography and walk
through 3-D architecture. It is a state-of-the-art website with an
excellent interface and very high-quality content. A technical tour de
force deploying a broad range of impressive plug-ins to good effect.”
SOUNDBYTE.ORG PROJECT
THE TITLE PAGE OF THE MUSEUM'S NEW WEBSITE
INCORPORATING THE MUSEUM’S NEW CORPORATE IDENTITY.
Museum website user sessions increased 81% to 311,856 for
the year, with hits increasing to 9,210,885. The Museum continues
to host the websites of the Ministry for the Arts and the Migration
Heritage Centre.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ENHANCE
THE GREEK EXHIBITION
The Museum developed a highly interactive website, CD-ROM
and exhibition components with panoramic photography and
virtual 3-D architecture to enhance its popular exhibition 1000
years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece.
Currently Powerhouse Museum SoundHouse is developing a
way to deliver SoundHouse musical experiences to visitors via the
internet. Soundbyte.org will be live from October 2001 offering a
streaming media service hosting music created by community
organisations and students, a computer music archive and
educational resource, and a range of musical interactive
experiences for real time music composition over networks such as
the internet.
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS ON LINE (AMOL)
http://www.amol.org.au
Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) has been hosted,
developed and managed by the Museum since January 1998.
In 2000–2001 AMOL launched a series of major new online
publications, virtual exhibitions, databases and training resources
which have contributed to the substantial increase in the number
of cultural tourists, museum professionals and students using
AMOL. In this period AMOL’s website use has grown by over 80%
and now more than 1,200 unique users a day regularly use AMOL’s
new National Exhibition Venues and ResourceFinder databases, as
POWERNET – THE MUSEUM’S INTRANET
Since the Museum’s intranet – Powernet – went live in
November 1999, the frequent addition of content has resulted in
the Powernet becoming an information-rich resource which is
accessible to all staff, enhancing internal communication. Most
areas of the Museum are represented on the intranet and many
organisational tools such as workplace policies, service request
forms and procedural instructions have been added. The design is
simple, with three main access points from the front page. All
networked computers in the Museum are programmed to default to
Powernet when the internet browser is activated.
DIGITAL IMAGING
The Museum’s Image Resources Centre (IRC) has now digitally
captured more than 145,000 images, approximately 75,000 of which
have been uploaded to the Image Management System (IMS) server.
New digital cameras with better resolution and new software
enable downloading and printing of images, and also automatic
uploading to the IMS, representing a 12-fold increase in capture
rate over the previous system.
The IRC also participated in the Online Public Access
Catalogue (OPAC) project. Approximately 1,050 images of the
Museum’s objects were captured digitally. Of these, 140 images
and their statements of significance, have been put online.
The Image Resource Centre (IRC) has continued to provide
assistance to other institutions in the fields of digital imaging and
image cataloguing. Among visitors have been staff from the
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the National
Library of Australia, Jakarta National Museum and the National
Film and Sound Unit from the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, many of
whom have stayed in contact with the IRC to seek advice.
THE COLLECTION
The Museum has a collection of 384,036
objects as at 30 June 2001 (based on an
estimate of 380,000 at 30 June 1995).
Approximately 3% of objects (by
number – 10% by volume) are on
display at any time. The remaining 97%
(by number – 90% by volume) is stored
in the Harwood Building basement at the
Powerhouse Museum (small and fragile
objects); stores in Jones Street, Ultimo (mediumsized objects); stores in Castle Hill (large objects); the
Large Erecting Workshop at Eveleigh (rail stock); and
Bankstown Airport (aircraft).
During the year, the Museum acquired 315 objects
for its collection through donations (217), sponsored
purchases (10), purchases (52), as cultural gifts
under the Cultural Gifts Program (33), and items
acquired through collection assessment (3).
A selection of acquisitions is at Appendix 3.
TIFFANY VASE, JACK IN
All acquisitions are made in accordance with THE PULPIT, NEW YORK,
USA, C. 1900-1908.
the Museum’s Collection Development Policy,
which was revised and approved by the Trust in April 2001.
The collection development fields are now as follows:
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN
SCIENCES
HISTORICAL DECORATIVE ARTS AND
physical sciences; astronomy; timekeeping;
DESIGN
navigation; meteorology; surveying;
Australia; Europe and North America;
seismology and the history of Sydney
Asia-Pacific region; Central and South
Observatory; health and medicine.
America and Africa.
ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
CONTEMPORARY DECORATIVE ARTS
agricultural technologies; biotechnologies;
AND DESIGN
mining technologies; materials technologies;
environmental design; multiple
product design and marketing;
production; one-off production; visual
manufacturing technologies; construction
communications.
technologies; power technologies.
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
TRANSPORT
AND SOCIETY
land transport; aviation; water transport;
social history of Sydney and New
space science and technology.
South Wales; Indigenous Australian
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
history and culture; migration and
computing; control systems and robots;
settlement; leisure and performing
broadcast media; network communications;
arts; industrial life; domestic life;
audio-visual technologies; printing
retailing.
technologies.
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The NSW State Records Act 1998 has set standards for the
management of records by Government agencies which includes
the management of records by electronic means. The Museum has
been electronically managing its paper-based records since 1992,
using the records management system TRIM, which is capable of
providing an integrated electronic management capability for the
organisation. Among developments in the period, TRIM was webenabled, providing staff access via the intranet. In addition,
50,119 new records were added to TRIM, including all new object
records and the transfer of some previous object files.
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THE COLLECTION
480,000 objects. The development and representation of regional
collections has been a strong theme in the period with the launch of
three major virtual exhibitions exploring Chinese migration in
regional NSW, Victoria’s regional galleries and rural women’s history.
AMOL also completed the first of a planned series of online
training courses for small museums. Together with the Canadian
Heritage Information Network, AMOL co-produced Capture your
collections, an interactive training package designed to help
regional, rural and remote museums develop best practice
approaches to collection digitisation.
ELECTRONIC RECORDS MANAGEMENT
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well as downloading copies of specially developed reCollections
and Significance publications. This success has been recognised
by the NSW Office of Information Technology, which recently
completed a best practise electronic service delivery (ESD) case
study on AMOL.
Of particular significance has been the growth in the number of
collections accessible through AMOL’s nationally distributed
collection network. In the period under review, 34 collections,
predominantly from regional museums and galleries, were added
and two new regional servers established in Tasmania and South
Australia. This takes the total number of museum collections
searchable through AMOL to 81 with a combined total of over
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COLLECTION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
THE COLLECTION
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While exhibitions are the dominant aspect of the Powerhouse
as far as the public is concerned, they are actually an expression
of the Museum’s program of research. Research fuels not only
exhibitions but also collection development, public programs,
conference papers and publications. Scholarship is at the heart of
most of the Museum’s core functions.
The Museum researches objects in the collection to produce
information for exhibitions, outward loans, publications and online
projects. Similar object-based research is also the means for
tracking down objects useful for building the Museum’s collection.
Many of the objects in the exhibition, Visions of a republic: the work
of Lucien Henry, were identified for the first time as autograph
works. Sound research also provided the means to recreate Henry’s
1891 polychrome ceiling for the Hotel Australia so that it could be
shown in the exhibition. Curatorial detective work is also a means
of identifying potential sponsors and donors.
The Museum offers its expertise to others with staff serving as
expert advisors for the National Cultural Heritage Committee and
on various boards (see Appendix 12). Staff research is routinely
offered in response to public queries and media questions.
Museum research also has a spin-off effect. Research on
public health by the Museum, in concert with the University of
NSW, has not only uncovered a significant collection of posters and
provided for a potential publication for the Powerhouse but also
assisted the University in fostering two publications of its own.
Research papers delivered at conferences locally and abroad
allow Museum staff to build an extensive network of useful
contacts (see Appendices 11 and 13). Scholarly debate cements
the links between people and provides for future exchanges of
information, exhibitions or even staff.
The Powerhouse Museum is also a leader in audience research
used to analyse visitor trends and responses to the Museum’s
programs (see page 20 and Appendix 7).
project basis. Newly acquired objects as well as those destined for
new exhibitions, online access or outward loan have their
cataloguing, history and provenance details completed, as well as
the new web-ready database field: ‘statement of significance’.
This year 315 objects were acquired into the Museum’s
collection and 755 objects were catalogued to museum
documentation standards. A major documentation project was the
cataloguing of the Tyrrell Collection of glass plate negatives for
placement on the Museum’s website. This collection consists of
over 7,000 images from the studios of Charles Kerry and Henry
King dated between 1875 and 1917. So far approximately 300
images have been fully documented and another 1,800
documented at a basic level.
SYDNEY 2000 GAMES COLLECTION
The Museum has installed storage racking and compactus
units in the upper level of the new Castle Hill store to
accommodate the Sydney 2000 Games Collection, for which it is
the official repository. A specific team of staff comprised of
registrars, curators, conservators and a photographer has been
formed to work on the project in 2001–2002.
COLLECTION STORAGE
The expiry in 2005 of the lease on the Jones Street store
presents a critical challenge for the Museum which must find
alternative storage of at least 6,000 m2 to relocate the many
objects stored there. The process of building and/or sourcing and
adapting a store to museum conservation and security
specifications, and planning and implementing the move is timeconsuming and complex. The Museum is awaiting a decision from
Government about the direction it would prefer the Museum
storage options to take.
PROPERTIES
CASTLE HILL STORE
Construction and fitout of the new 3,000 m2 premium store at
Castle Hill was completed on schedule in the period. The store is
on two levels, and has been built to museum storage
specifications. All services are external to the storage space,
minimising the risk of water damage to the collection, which is the
main risk in museum stores. The store is air-conditioned and
security-controlled, with loading docks suitable for large objects.
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE PREVENTION
MONAURAL STETHOSCOPES (1850-1960), GIFT OF DR BRYAN GANDEVIA, 2001.
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
Conservation of the collection is integral to the Museum’s
business, with preparation of objects for exhibition and outward loan
being major activities of the year. In 2000–2001, the Museum treated
or assessed 3,242 objects and photodocumented 973 objects.
The Museum continues to upgrade object documentation on a
The Museum continued work on the earthquake damage
prevention project at the Powerhouse, completing much of the outer
wall of the Boiler Hall (eastern wall of the Transport exhibition). This
work is being aligned with exhibition changeovers in the gallery
in order to minimise inconvenience to visitors. It is planned to
complete the work during the changeover of the Space exhibition.
RETAINING WALL
The Museum completed construction of the retaining wall
which will hold the heavy rail shunting spur which is to connect
into the existing heavy rail siding. This will allow the Museum to
The second stage (work on the residential wing) of the
stonework restoration project was largely completed in the period
– with completion likely by August 2001. The third stage (courtyard
area and west wing) is due to commence in April 2002.
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Government Energy Management Policy seeks to reduce
greenhouse emissions from Government operations. The Museum’s
operations do not directly produce greenhouse emissions. However
the Museum uses energy, the production of which causes
greenhouse emissions.
The Museum’s total energy consumption across all sites,
including gas, electricity, LPG and other liquid fuels totaled 45,199
gigajoules (Gj) in 2000–2001 compared with 43,387 gigajoules (Gj)
in 1999–2000 – an increase of 4.2%. This has been largely due to
the increase in floor space by some 5% (requiring air conditioning,
lighting, etc) created by new construction: 3,000 m2 object storage
facilities at Castle Hill and the additional 600 m2 area of the group
entrance at the Powerhouse Museum. This year’s usage followed a
3% reduction in energy consumption in 1999–2000.
The Museum continues to concentrate on the Government’s focus
on the twin goals of better financial performance and improved
environmental outcomes by closely monitoring energy consumption.
WASTE REDUCTION
The Museum provided a report to the NSW Environment
Protection Authority on the progress of the Museum’s waste
reduction strategies to May 2001. The Museum has recommenced
using paper with recycled content in the period, following
improvements in quality so that it no longer jams printers. This
will considerably reduce the amount of Museum waste going to
landfill. The Museum also continues to send paper, aluminium and
glass away for recycling.
The Museum’s exhibition, EcoLogic: creating a sustainable
future, opening in August 2001, will contribute to increased public
awareness of environmental issues.
INTERNAL OPERATIONS
RISK MANAGEMENT
Risk is inherent with the open display of objects, with public
liability, theft and damage being areas of concern. The Museum’s
active Occupational Health and Safety practices minimise risk to
staff and visitors to the Museum, the success of which can be seen
from the reducing levels of claims (see below).
During the year, a number of improvements were made to the
Museum’s security systems, which are a key contributor to
SELF-GENERATED FUNDING
The Museum achieved a record year of self-generated funding
in 2000-2001 of $8.6 million. This was comprised of almost
$7 million in cash and $1.65 million worth of in-kind support. The
Museum raised $984,000 in cash sponsorship in the period. This
result was due to a combination of the great success of the
Olympic program and the dedicated work of staff.
Income from admissions in 2000–2001 was $2,230,000, an
increase of 26.6% on the 1999–2000 figure of $1,761,000 due
primarily to the success of the Olympic exhibitions.
The Museum has had a most successful year in 2000–2001 for
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SYDNEY OBSERVATORY STONEWORK RESTORATION
merchandising achievements, with the million dollar mark being
passed for the first time. Retail sales at the Powerhouse Museum
increased to a new record level of $1,082,138 (excluding GST), an
increase of 52% on the 1999–2000 figure of $783,073. This was
due to the success of the three Olympic Arts Festival exhibitions as
well as the dynamic range of post-Olympic activities.
During the year, the Museum established four temporary
exhibition shops which attracted extensive support from visitors,
especially 1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient
Greece which broke all previous records, as well as Leonardo da
Vinci: the Codex Leicester; The world of LEGO and Anne Frank: a
history for today and Courage to care. A new shop with a focus on
products for children opened in August 2000.
The previous catering contract arrangements expired in April
2001. Following an extensive evaluation and tendering process, the
Museum entered into new catering agreements with Djanga
Australia to manage the café, and into four function catering
agreements with Djanga Australia trading as Laissez-faire, Belinda
Franks Catering, Fresh and European Catering. This will enable the
Museum to optimise its events business by being able to better
tailor catering styles and budgets to clients’ requirements.
NIGEL SUTTON ENTERTAINS VISITORS AS THE PROGRAMMABLE ROBOT, TORK2U.
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PROPERTIES AND SELF-GENERATED FUNDING
display rolling stock on the eastern edge of the Powerhouse Grace
Bros courtyard as well as in the café and/or the courtyard,
doubling the capacity to display rolling stock. The building of the
retaining wall is part of the plan to enable the ‘turn-around’ of a
locomotive – so that two locomotives are not required (one in each
direction) for train trips to and from the Museum.
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INTERNAL OPERATIONS
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effective risk management. New state-of-the-art security
surveillance cameras were installed at the Powerhouse Museum;
there was a full access audit of all staff; identification access
cards were upgraded with digital imaging of staff; locking systems
were standardised; and improved security surveillance equipment
was installed at the Castle Hill storage complex. These
improvements will help the Museum to prevent situations of risk as
well as improving response times.
HUMAN RESOURCES
The Museum is responsible for the full range of its strategic
human resource management issues and personnel administration
functions, as well as providing services and advice relating to
performance management, staff development, occupational health
and safety, equity and merit, and industrial relations. The Museum
has specialists in occupational health and safety, staff
development, personnel administration and industrial relations.
During the year, the Museum implemented a range of
IT-related HR initiatives such as making recruitment information
available on the Museum’s website and providing electronic pay
advice to staff; collaborated with central agencies such as
assisting Premier’s Department with the review of HR Systems on
Government Selected Application Systems (GSAS) and providing
advice re the implementation of electronic self-service of HR
services in the Museum; implemented a flexible working
agreement and established staffing contingency plans for the
Olympics period; received positive audit reports on both the MIMS
system and payroll/personnel procedures; and worked with peers in
other cultural institutions across the portfolio to achieve
consistency of approach to service provision, particularly in
response to corporate service reform initiatives.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
The Museum prepares an EEO Management Plan annually and
reports on achievements in relation to this plan each September.
The strategies identified primarily focus on adding flexibility in
terms of working arrangements, furthering equitable access to
developmental opportunities and on enhancing the diversity of
staff in relation to all the target groups identified in the AntiDiscrimination legislation. EEO statistics are at Appendix 28.
and gives OH&S training to staff. The Museum provided specialist
advice to smaller agencies on request and participated in
delivering training courses for return to work coordinators.
There were no prosecutions under the Occupational Health
and Safety Act 1983.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Customer service continues to be a priority governing all of the
Museum’s services. It is a key feature of the Museum’s Guarantee
of Service and Code of Conduct, and is dealt with in all staff
induction sessions. The Museum’s Customer Service Working Group
meets as required to review services and procedures to ensure
optimum customer service in all areas.
A priority area of customer service is improving access to the
Museum. The Museum negotiated successfully with the Olympic
Coordination Authority for 16 signs to the Powerhouse Museum to
be strategically located throughout Darling Harbour. The Museum
also negotiated with Sydney City Council and the Sydney Harbour
Foreshore Authority to arrange street level and directional signage
in the Rocks precinct for Sydney Observatory.
The Powerhouse Museum uses the knowledge derived from
extensive evaluation and audience research analysis to inform the
development of its exhibitions, programs and services. This contributes
to the Museum’s ability to provide superior customer service.
In the period, the Museum undertook summative evaluations
of the following exhibitions: Bayagul; 1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient Greece; Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex
Leicester – notebook of a genius; Earth, spirit, fire: Korean
masterpieces of the Choson Dynasty; LEGO action show and
Anne Frank: a history for today and Courage to care. A front-end
evaluation was undertaken for EcoLogic, and program evaluations
were undertaken of the ‘behind the scenes’ volunteer program,
catering services, events, and the Members Day. More information
about Evaluations and Audience Research is at Appendix 7.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (OH&S)
There were 25 workers’ compensation claims in 2000–2001,
which is the same number as 1999–2000 and compares
favourably to the 34 claims in 1998–1999.
A comparison of the Museum’s workers compensation
premium costs (as a percentage of salary costs), compared to the
Primary Portfolio of the Treasury Managed Fund (in brackets),
shows consistently above average performance: 1998–99 2.1%
(2.93%); 1999–2000 2.3% (3.06%); 2000–2001 2.2% (2.65%);
2001–2002 2.0% (2.86%).
The Museum’s Injury Management Policy and Procedures was
adopted, and a set of rules for the use of Museum workshop tools
and equipment was developed.
The Museum continues to undertake workplace inspections,
VISITORS ENJOYING THE NAIDOC DAY CONCERT
Net cost of services of $31,046,000 for the year was
$2,443,000 better than the budget of $33,489,000. Main items
affecting the variation to budget are a reduction in depreciation of
$988,000, improved self-generated revenue of $704,000 and
capitalisation of employee related expenditure of $1,436,000 on
permanent gallery replacement work and accessioning of the
collection offset by increased maintenance costs of $596,000.
CASH FLOWS
Cash and investments decreased by $477,000 during the year
against a budgeted surplus of $7,000. This reduction in cash is a
result of the expenditure of funds received from sponsors near the
end of the previous financial year and was foreshadowed in the
previous annual report. The Museum will need to continue to
maintain strict financial discipline over proposed projects and
programs for coming years in recognition of a tight cash position.
Additional support through revenue and other sources will be
sought to alleviate this situation.
pre-printed purchase requisition stationery. In the near future
purchase orders will be automatically faxed to suppliers or printed
onsite, this process also doing away with the need for pre-printed
stationery. Online reporting is in the process of being rolled out to
users as well as increased use of EFT. The Museum is currently
looking at the installation of the employee self-service (ESS)
facility of the software supplier with a view to introducing this in
the current year. The Museum is also offering its services as a
shared services provider to smaller organisations who would then
be able to enjoy the benefits of a fully integrated corporate service
information system.
CONTRACTING AND MARKET TESTING POLICY
In conjunction with the Ministry and other cultural institutions
the Museum lodged a request with the Australian Taxation Office for
a private ruling on the application of the GST to admission charges
and Museum membership contributions. A favourable response was
received and the Museum’s admission charges and members
contributions are now considered GST free under the legislation.
Negotiations are ongoing with the ACCC and the ATO to obtain a
refund of the GST paid from 1 July 2000 to the date of the ruling. It
is envisaged that there will be a component of the refund that will
not be able to be returned to the payers. This will be retained by the
Museum to cover the costs of the refund process as well as being
applied to Museum activities for the benefit of the public.
It is Museum policy to use its limited resources to achieve
identified goals in the most cost-effective manner. This is
achieved by the assessment of planned work programs to
determine if the most effective result can be achieved by either
carrying out the work in-house or by contracting out. Where the
assessment indicates that the desired outcome will be better
achieved by the use of contracted services, competitive tenders are
called. After a review and the selection of the preferred tenderer a
further assessment is made of the cost-effectiveness of the
proposal and if favourable, an agreement is entered into with the
successful tenderer. During the course of a contract Museum staff
monitor the performance of the contractor to ensure compliance
with requirements and quality of performance. This procedure is
followed for both new contracts and for those about to expire.
Expiring contracts are not automatically renewed; they are put to
competitive tender and are subject to the same review process as
for new contracts. In this manner quality of service, effectiveness
of performance and cost-effectiveness are maintained at the
desired level.
During the year ongoing evaluations were undertaken on a
number of Museum activities with the following results:
• continued development of the integrated computerised
financial and human resources management systems;
• continued in-house upgrading of essential IT applications;
• collaboration with nine other agencies to explore the
possibilities of achieving economies of scale in corporate
service functions among visitor service agencies;
• market testing of the production of Museum publications. This
is a continuing operation with indications of further savings
being gained.
CORPORATE SERVICE REFORM
INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
The Museum is constantly aware of the need to increase the
efficiency of and hence reduce the cost of its corporate services.
This is being achieved by the development of the fully integrated
finance/HR/payroll MIMS Open Enterprise system. During the year
online purchasing was introduced across the Museum thereby
doing away with the need for excessive manual processing and
The reserve funds of the Museum were invested throughout
the year in short-term bank deposits, commercial bills and the
Treasury Corporation’s Hour-Glass cash facility. The annual
investment return on these funds for 2000-2001 was 6.2%. The
annual return for the cash fund within the Treasury Corporation
Hour-Glass facility was 5.9%.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
During the year Net Assets and hence Equity increased by
$1,779,000. Main area of increase was in Non-Current Assets in
which Land and Buildings increased by a net $176,000 following
the completion of the Castle Hill store and the Collection by
$1,345,000 as a result of purchases and gifts to the collection now
being capitalised. As indicated above cash and investments has
decreased by $477,000 during the year due in the main to a
reduction in accounts payable of $626,000 and an increase in
current assets excluding cash of $477,000.
GST COMPLIANCE
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FINANCES: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
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FINANCES: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
SELF-GENERATED INCOME
2000-2001 DOLLARS
GOVERNMENT FUNDING - RECURRENT
2000-2001 DOLLARS
$ MILLIONS
SOURCES OF FUNDING 2000-2001
$ MILLIONS
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FINANCES: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
$ MILLIONS
GOVERNMENT FUNDING - RECURRENT AND CAPITAL
2000-2001 DOLLARS
TOTAL FUNDING - INTERNAL AND GOVERNMENT
2000-2001 DOLLARS
$ MILLIONS
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OPERATING EXPENSES 2000-2001
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE
In accordance with a resolution of the Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and
Sciences we state that:
a) the accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with
the provisions of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, the Financial Reporting
Code for Budget Dependent General Government Sector Agencies, the applicable
clauses of the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2000 and the Treasurer’s
Directions;
b) the statements exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position and
transactions of the Museum; and
c) there are no circumstances that would render any particulars included in the
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Pursuant to sections 41C(1B) and (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983.
financial statements to be misleading or inaccurate.
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Signed
Signed
Director
Date: 18 October 2001
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE
President
AUDIT OPINION
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
AUDIT OPINION
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Statement of Financial Performance for the
NOTES
year ended 30 June 2001
ACTUAL
BUDGET
ACTUAL
2001
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
$’000
Expenses
Operating expenses
Employee related
2.1
20,328
21,748
20,988
Other operating expenses
2.2
11,567
11,476
11,524
Maintenance
2.3
3,492
2,896
3,631
Depreciation and amortisation
2.4
4,304
5,292
4,786
39,691
41,412
40,929
4,998
4,641
3,908
Total Expenses
Less:
Retained Revenue
Sale of goods and services
3.1
Investment income
3.2
170
139
147
Grants and contributions
3.3
3,261
3,061
2,305
Other revenue
3.4
198
82
147
8,627
7,923
6,507
4
18
-
35
22
31,046
33,489
34,387
25,973
25,987
24,994
4,520
4,520
6,635
2,332
2,231
2,661
32,825
32,738
34,290
1,779
(751)
(97)
Net increase in asset revaluation reserve
-
-
23,550
Net increase in accumulated funds on
valuation of the collection
-
-
360,671
-
-
384,221
1,779
(751)
384,124
Total Retained Revenue
Gain/(loss) on disposal of non-current assets
NET COST OF SERVICES
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Recurrent appropriation
Capital appropriation
Acceptance by the Crown Entity of employee
entitlements and other liabilities
6
Total Government Contributions
SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR
FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES
NON-OWNER TRANSACTION
CHANGES IN EQUITY
TOTAL REVENUES, EXPENSES AND
VALUATION ADJUSTMENTS RECOGNISED
DIRECTLY IN EQUITY
TOTAL CHANGES IN EQUITY OTHER THAN
THOSE RESULTING FROM TRANSACTIONS
WITH OWNERS AS OWNERS
The accompanying notes form part
of these statements
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Government Contributions
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Statement of Financial Position
NOTES
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
as at 30 June 2001
FINANCIALS
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ACTUAL
BUDGET
ACTUAL
2001
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
$’000
ASSETS
Current Assets
Cash
8
2,552
2,880
2,821
Receivables
10
485
195
143
Inventories
11
279
254
254
Other
12
348
238
238
3,664
3,567
3,456
94,256
92,893
94,080
Total Current Assets
Non-Current Assets
Property, Plant and Equipment
- Land and buildings
13
- Plant and equipment
14
17,639
18,252
17,789
- Collection
15
362,016
360,671
360,671
Total Property, Plant and Equipment
473,911
471,816
472,540
Total Non-Current Assets
473,911
471,816
472,540
Total Assets
477,575
475,383
475,996
LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities
Payables
16
2,972
3,736
3,598
Interest bearing liability
17
208
-
-
Employee entitlements and other provisions
18
2,187
1,969
1,969
5,367
5,705
5,567
472,208
469,678
470,429
Total Current Liabilities
Net Assets
EQUITY
Reserves
19
92,828
92,828
92,828
Accumulated funds
19
379,380
376,850
377,601
472,208
469,678
470,429
Total Equity
The accompanying notes form part
of these statements
Statement of Cash Flows
NOTES
for the year ended 30 June 2001
ACTUAL
BUDGET
ACTUAL
2001
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
$’000
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Payments
Employee related
(18,039)
(19,735)
(18,888)
Other
(16,594)
(13,983)
(13,422)
Total Payments
(34,633)
(33,718)
(32,310)
4,747
4,641
4,034
Receipts
Sale of goods and services
172
139
156
Other
Interest received
3,231
2,440
1,208
Total Receipts
8,150
7,220
5,398
25,973
25,987
24,994
4,520
4,520
6,635
765
618
1,007
31,258
31,125
32,636
4,775
4,627
5,724
168
-
106
(5,420)
(4,520)
(5,261)
Cash Flows from Government
Recurrent appropriation
Capital appropriation
Cash reimbursements from the Crown Entity
Net Cash Flows from Government
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OPERATING ACTIVITIES
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CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from sale of land and buildings,
plant and equipment
Purchases of land and buildings, plant
and equipment
Purchases of investments
NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH
Opening cash and cash equivalents
CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
The accompanying notes form part
of these statements
8
-
(100)
-
(5,252)
(4,620)
(5,155)
(477)
7
569
2,821
2,873
2,252
2,344
2,880
2,821
FINANCIALS
NET CASH FLOWS FROM
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Summary of Compliance with Financial
Directives for the year ended 30 June 2001
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2001
RECURRENT
APPROPRIATION
$’000
EXPENDITURE/NET
CLAIM ON
CONSOLIDATED FUND
$’000
2000
CAPITAL
APPROPRIATION
$’000
EXPENDITURE/NET
CLAIM ON
CONSOLIDATED FUND
$’000
RECURRENT
APPROPRIATION
$’000
EXPENDITURE/NET
CLAIM ON
CONSOLIDATED FUND
$’000
CAPITAL
APPROPRIATION
$’000
EXPENDITURE/NET
CLAIM ON
CONSOLIDATED FUND
$’000
Original Budget
Appropriation/
Expenditure
• Appropriation Act
25,987
25,973
4,520
4,520
24,803
24,761
5,668
5,668
25,987
25,973
4,520
4,520
24,803
24,761
5,668
5,668
Other Appropriations/
Expenditure
• Section 22
- expenditure for
certain works and
services
-
-
-
-
233
233
967
967
Treasurer’s Advance
-
-
157
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
157
-
233
233
967
967
25,987
25,973
4,677
4,520
25,036
24,994
6,635
6,635
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Total Appropriations/
Expenditure/Net
Claim on Consolidated
Fund
Amounts drawn down
against Appropriation
Liability to
Consolidated Fund
25,973
4,520
24,994
6,635
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Note: 1. The Museum earns income from sources other than the Consolidated Fund. As sources of expenditure cannot be fully identified, it is assumed that the
Consolidated Fund appropriation is expended prior to the revenue from other sources.
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amount must be repaid to the consolidated fund in the
following financial year. As a result, unspent
appropriations are accounted for as liabilities rather
than revenue.
1.3.2 Sale of Goods and Services
Revenue from the Museum’s commercial operations
and from services relating to providing access to and
information on the state’s material cultural heritage is
recognised on the provision of the goods sold and/or
services rendered.
1.3.3 Investment and Other Income
Interest income is recognised as it accrues, royalty
and copyright revenue on an accrual basis in
accordance with the conditions of the relevant
agreement.
1.4 Employee Entitlements
1.4.1 Wages and Salaries, Annual Leave, Sick Leave
and On-Costs
Liabilities for wages and salaries and annual leave are
recognised and measured as the amount unpaid at
the reporting date at current pay rates in respect of
employees’ services up to that date.
Sick leave entitlements for Museum employees is nonvesting. Examination of past records of sick leave taken
for all employees shows that in each financial year sick
leave taken is less than the entitlement accruing during
that year. This experience is expected to continue in
future years. Since indications are that the liability
existing at balance will not be required to be paid out in
the future, the liability at balance date has not been
recognised in the financial statements.
The outstanding amounts of payroll tax, workers’
compensation insurance premiums and fringe benefits
tax, which are consequential to employment, are
recognised as liabilities and expenses where the
employee entitlements to which they relate have been
recognised.
1.4.2 Long Service Leave and Superannuation
The Museum’s liabilities for long service leave and
superannuation are assumed by the Crown Entity. The
Museum accounts for the liability as having been
extinguished resulting in the amount assumed being
shown as part of the non-monetary revenue item
described as ‘Acceptance by the Crown Entity of
employee entitlements and other liabilities’.
Long service leave is measured on a nominal basis.
The nominal method is based on the remuneration rates
at year end for all employees with five or more years of
service. It is considered that this measurement
technique produces results not materially different from
the estimate determined by using the present value
basis of measurement.
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1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
1.1 Reporting Entity
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, as a reporting
entity, is a statutory body under the administration of the
NSW Minister for the Arts. It comprises of the Powerhouse
Museum and the Sydney Observatory. All activities are
carried out under the auspices of the Museum, there are no
other entities under its control.
1.2 Basis of Accounting
The Museum’s financial statements are a general purpose
financial report which has been prepared on an accruals
basis and in accordance with:
• applicable Australian Accounting Standards
• other authoritative pronouncements of the Australian
• Accounting Standards Board (AASB)
• Urgent Issues Group (UIG) Consensus View
• the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983
• and Regulations; and
• the Financial Reporting Directions published in the
• Financial Reporting Code for Budget Dependent General
• Government Sector Agencies or issued by the Treasurer
• under section 9(2)(n) of the Act.
Where there are inconsistencies between the above
requirements, the legislative provisions have prevailed.
In the absence of a specific Accounting Standard, other
authoritative pronouncement of the AASB or UIG Consensus
View, the hierarchy of other pronouncements as outlined in
AAS 6 ‘Accounting Policies’ is considered.
Except for certain items of land and buildings, plant and
equipment and collection, which are recorded at valuation,
the financial statements are prepared in accordance with
the historical cost convention. All amounts are rounded to
the nearest one thousand dollars and are expressed in
Australian currency. The accounting policies adopted are
consistent with those of the previous year.
1.3 Recognition of Revenue
Revenue is recognised when the Museum has control of the
goods or right to receive, it is probable that the economic
benefits will flow to the Museum and the amount of the
revenue can be measured reliably.
1.3.1 Parliamentary Appropriations and Contributions
1.3.1 from Other Bodies
Parliamentary appropriations and contributions from
other bodies (including grants and donations) are
generally recognised as revenues when the Museum
obtains control over the assets comprising the
appropriations/contributions. Control over appropriations
and contributions is normally obtained upon the receipt
of cash.
An exception to the above is when appropriations are
unspent at year end. In this case the authority to
spend the money lapses and generally the unspent
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1.4.2 Long Service Leave and Superannuation …cont
The superannuation expense for the financial year is
determined by using the formulae specified in the
Treasurer’s Directions. The expense for certain
superannuation schemes (ie Basic Benefit and First
State Super) is calculated as a percentage of the
employees’ salary. For other superannuation schemes
(ie State Superannuation Scheme and State
Authorities Superannuation Scheme), the expense is
calculated as a multiple of the employees’
superannuation contributions.
1.5
Insurance
The Museum’s insurance activities are conducted through
the NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of self insurance
for Government agencies. The expense (premium) is
determined by the Fund Manager based on industry
benchmarks and the Museum’s past experience.
1.6
Acquisitions of Assets
The cost method of accounting is used for the initial
recording of all acquisitions of assets controlled by the
Museum. Cost is determined as the fair value of the
assets given as consideration plus the costs incidental to
the acquisition.
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Assets acquired at no cost or for nominal consideration,
are initially recognised as assets and revenues at their fair
value at the date of acquisition.
Collection items acquired during the year are recorded at
cost plus a processing cost and recognised as assets.
Processing cost is dependant on the nature, size,
availability in the market and knowledge of history of the
item and consists of staff salary and freight costs.
Fair value means the amount for which an asset could be
exchanged between a knowledgeable, willing buyer and a
knowledgeable, willing seller in an arm’s length transaction.
1.7
Plant and Equipment
Plant and equipment costing individually $5,000 and
above are capitalised. Computer related assets costing
individually $5,000 or less but which form part of a
network with a cumulative value in excess of $5,000 are
also capitalised.
1.8
Valuation of Physical Non-Current Assets
Buildings and improvements and plant and equipment
(excluding the collection and heritage buildings) are valued
based on the estimated written down replacement cost of
the most appropriate modern equivalent replacement
facility having a similar service potential to the existing
asset. The collection is valued on the deprival method and
land on existing use basis.
Physical non-current assets are revalued every five years.
The last such revaluation of land, buildings, improvements
and major structural plant and equipment was completed
1.9
by independent valuers on 30 June 2000. Additions since
the date of valuation are valued at cost of acquisition.
In accordance with Treasury policy, the agency has applied
the AAS38 “Revaluation of Non-Current Assets”
transitional provisions for the public sector and has
elected to apply the same revaluation basis as the
preceding reporting period, while the relationship between
fair value and the existing valuation basis in the NSW
public sector is further examined. It is expected, however
that in most instances the current valuation methodology
will approximate fair value.
When revaluing non-current assets by reference to current
prices for assets newer than those being revalued
(adjusted to reflect the present condition of the assets),
the gross amount and the related accumulated
depreciation is separately restated.
Conversely, where assets are revalued to market value, and
not by reference to current prices for assets newer than
those being revalued, any balances of accumulated
depreciation existing at the revaluation date in respect of
those assets are credited to the asset accounts to which
they relate. The net asset accounts are increased or
decreased by the revaluation increments or decrements.
The recoverable amount test has not been applied as the
Museum is a not-for-profit entity whose service potential is
not related to the ability to generate net cash inflows.
Revaluation increments are credited directly to the asset
revaluation reserve, except that, to the extent that an
increment reverses a revaluation decrement in respect of
that class of asset previously recognised as an expense in
the surplus/deficit, the increment is recognised
immediately as revenue in the surplus/deficit.
Revaluation decrements are recognised immediately as
expenses in the surplus/deficit, except that, to the extent
that a credit balance exists in the asset revaluation reserve
in respect of the same class of assets, they are debited
directly to the asset revaluation reserve.
Revaluation increments and decrements are offset against
one another within a class of non-current assets, but not
otherwise.
Depreciation of Non-Current Physical Assets
Depreciable assets include plant and equipment, motor
vehicles, permanent exhibition fitout and buildings with
the exception of Powerhouse Stages 1 and 2, the Ultimo
Post Office and Sydney Observatory. These buildings along
with the collection are heritage assets and as such are not
classified as depreciable assets. The collection is so
classified as the items therein have very long and
indeterminate useful lives and their service potential
has not been consumed during the reporting period.
Depreciation is provided for on a straight line basis for
all depreciable assets so as to write off the depreciable
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1.10
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.14
1.15
1.16
Depreciation of Non-Current Physical Assets …cont
amount of each asset as it is consumed over its useful life
to the entity. Land is not a depreciable asset. Depreciation
rates are reviewed each year taking into consideration the
condition and estimated useful life of the assets.
All material, separately identifiable component assets are
recognised and depreciated over their shorter useful lives,
including those components that in effect represent major
periodic maintenance.
Maintenance and Repairs
The costs of maintenance are charged as expenses as
incurred, except where they relate to the replacement of a
component of an asset, in which case the costs are
capitalised and depreciated.
Leased Assets
The Museum leases certain plant and equipment, and land
and buildings.
All such leases are operating leases, where the lessors
effectively retain substantially all the risks and benefits of
ownership of the leased items, the payments on which are
included in the determination of the results of operations
over the lease term.
Cash
Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances with the
Museum’s bankers. The Museum also classifies certificates
of deposit and bank bills for statement of financial
position purposes as cash.
Interest revenues are recognised as they accrue.
Receivables
All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at
balance date. Collectability of trade debtors is reviewed on
an ongoing basis. Debts which are known to be
uncollectable are written off. A provision for doubtful
debts is raised when some doubt as to collection exists.
Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net
realisable value. Cost is determined using the ‘first in first
out’ method of stock valuation.
Grants
The Museum receives funds the expenditure of which is
restricted by the conditions under which the donation or
bequest is made. These funds are recognised as revenue
in the period in which they are received. In some cases
where there is an overriding condition that requires
repayment of the grant if the condition is not met, an
amount equal to the grant is recognised as a contingent
liability until such time as the condition either materialises
or is removed.
Payables
The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in
the future for goods or services received, whether or not
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1.18
1.19
1.20
invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are
unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set
out in Treasurer’s Direction 219.01. If trade terms are not
specified, payment is made no later than the end of the
month following the month in which an invoice or a
statement is received. Treasurer’s Direction 219.01 allows
the Secretary of the Ministry for the Arts to award interest
for late payment. No applications for the payment of
interest on late payments were received during the year.
Interest Bearing Liabilities
The Museum does not have any bank overdraft or other
interest bearing facility.
Non-Monetary Assistance
The Museum receives assistance and contributions from
third parties by way of the provision of volunteer labour,
donations and bequests to the collection and the provision
of goods and services free of charge. These contributions
are valued as at the date of acquisition or provision of
services with the amount of the valuation recognised in the
Operating Statement as revenue under Grants and Industry
Contributions and as an expense under the appropriate
classification.
Reclassification of Financial Information
As a result of applying AAS1 ‘Statement of financial
performance’ and AAS36 ‘Statement of financial position’,
the format of the Statement of financial performance
(previously referred to as the Operating Statement) and the
Statement of financial position has been amended. As a
result of applying these Accounting Standards, a number
of comparative amounts were represented or reclassified to
ensure comparability with the current reporting period.
Budgeted Amounts
The budgeted amounts are drawn from the budgets as
formulated at the beginning of the financial year and with
any adjustments for the effects of additional
appropriations, s 21A, s 24 and/or s 26 of the Public
Finance and Audit Act 1983.
The budgeted amounts in the Statement of financial
performance and the Statement of cash flows are generally
based on the amounts disclosed in the NSW Budget Papers
(as adjusted above). However, in the Statement of
financial position, the amounts vary from the Budget
Papers, as the opening balances of the budgeted amounts
are based on carried forward actual amounts ie per the
audited financial statements (rather than carried
forward estimates).
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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2001
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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
16,496
17,287
1,684
1,510
542
656
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30 JUNE 2001
2. EXPENSES
2.1 Employee related expenses
Salaries and wages (including recreation leave)
Superannuation entitlements
Long service leave
Workers compensation insurance
410
355
Payroll tax and fringe benefit tax
1,196
1,180
20,328
20,988
1,599
1,258
Included in the above is direct costs of $5,000
for staff working on Olympics sporting events.
In addition employee related expenditure totalling
$1,436,000 has been incurred on capital projects
including $637,000 for processing costs in
accessioning additions to the collection
(refer notes 1.6, and 21).
2.2 Other operating expenses
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Asset management
Collection management
868
265
Collection development and research
302
1,200
Commercial activities
860
714
Corporate services
432
516
Education and public/members programs
346
294
Exhibition development and maintenance
1,862
1,525
Evaluation and visitor research
Facility management
Information technology
Promotional activities
63
53
2,248
1,933
958
2,000
1,399
1,313
Publications
512
299
Training and staff development
118
154
11,567
11,524
Included in the operating expenses are
Auditor’s remuneration
36
34
Consultants’ fees
29
80
Bad and doubtful debts
Rental expense relating to operating leases
-
2
821
803
Insurance
933
332
Cost of goods sold
643
449
3,308
3,046
184
585
3,492
3,631
2.3 Maintenance
Repairs and maintenance
Buildings, exhibitions and collection
Plant and equipment
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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
2.4 Depreciation and amortisation
Buildings
Plant and equipment
Exhibition fitout
2,306
871
1,127
2,312
1,042
1,432
4,304
4,786
Depreciation rates:
Buildings (refer Note 1.9)
Buildings - internal services and major components
2.00%
8.00%
Plant and equipment
15.00%
Computer equipment
33.33%
Motor vehicles
20.00%
Permanent exhibition fitout - depending on planned life
of the exhibition rates varying
from
to
2.25%
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30 JUNE 2001
25.00%
3. RETAINED REVENUE
3.1 Sale of goods and services
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Sale of goods
Shops
1,086
783
220
86
2,233
1,761
Members organisation
400
199
Leased operations
187
172
Venue hire - functions
411
414
4
61
397
428
Publications
Exhibition fees
Fees for staff services
Other
60
4
4,998
3,908
170
147
Government employment grants
66
120
Public donations
66
24
1,474
918
Non-cash donations - voluntary labour
491
346
Non-cash donations - collection/exhibition items
405
244
3.2 Investment income
Interest
3.3 Grants and contributions
Industry donations and contributions
Non-cash donations - goods and services
759
653
3,261
2,305
3.4 Other revenue
Deaccessions
3
25
Other income
195
122
198
147
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Rendering of services
Admissions
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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
168
106
150
71
18
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4. GAIN/(LOSS) ON DISPOSAL OF NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Plant and equipment
Proceeds from sale
Written down value of assets sold/disposed
Plant and equipment
Net gain/(loss) on disposal of non-current assets
5. CONDITIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS
The Museum receives funds the expenditure of which is restricted to the purpose for which they were given by conditions attached to the
grants. These funds are recognised as revenue in the period in which they are received.
During the 2000/2001 year contributions totalling $309,000 were received and recognised as revenue. Expenditure of these funds will
occur during 2001/2002 and future years on items for the collection, permanent exhibition upgrades, temporary and touring exhibitions.
Expenditure will be in compliance with the conditions and for the purpose for which they were given.
During the 1999/2000 year contributions totalling $329,000 were received and recognised as revenue. These funds were expended during
2000/2001 on temporary exhibitions and regional programs in compliance with the conditions and for the purposes for which they were given.
6. ACCEPTANCE BY THE CROWN ENTITY OF EMPLOYEE
ENTITLEMENTS AND OTHER LIABILITIES
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2001
2000
$’000
$’000
The following liabilities and/or expenses have
been assumed by the Crown Entity:
Superannuation
FINANCIALS
Long service leave
Payroll tax on entitlements
1,684
1,510
542
1,054
106
97
2,332
2,661
7. PROGRAM INFORMATION
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences is a program within the Arts portfolio.
The Museum’s program objective is to promote understanding and appreciation of society’s evolution and our cultural heritage in the
fields of science, technology, industry, design, decorative arts and history.
The program description is the acquisition, conservation and research of artefacts and other materials relating to science, technology
and the applied arts; dissemination of information to the community, industry and government through a range of services including
exhibitions, educational programs, publications (including CD-ROMS), website and specialist advice; administration of the Powerhouse
Museum and the Sydney Observatory.
2001
2000
8. CURRENT ASSETS - CASH
Cash on hand
TCorp - Hour glass cash facility
Other fixed term deposits
$’000
$’000
37
118
3
319
2,512
2,384
2,552
2,821
2,552
2,821
For the purposes of the Statement of cash flows, cash includes cash on hand, cash at bank and
current and non-current investments consisting of certificates of deposit and bank bills (note 1.12).
Cash assets recognised in the Statement of financial position are reconciled to cash at the
end of the financial year as shown in the Statement of cash flows as follows:
Cash (per Statement of Financial Position)
Bank overdraft
Closing cash and cash equivalents (per Statement of cash flows)
(208)
-
2,344
2,821
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
82
82
173
114
255
196
379
136
4
4
375
132
9
11
30 JUNE 2001
Included in investments are funds donated or bequeathed to the Museum for specific purposes.
They are made up of amounts that are preserved until specific dates in the future with the balance
expendable at any time by the Trustees in accordance with the donation or bequest.
Capital preserved until 2012
Expendable
10. CURRENT ASSETS - RECEIVABLES
Sale of goods and services
less: Provision for doubtful debts
Accrued interest on deposits
Other debtors
101
-
485
143
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
9. RESTRICTED ASSETS
11. CURRENT ASSETS - INVENTORIES
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Trading stock - finished goods
- At Cost
279
254
-
-
348
238
Land - at valuation
25,225
25,225
Total land
25,225
25,225
- At Net Realisable Value
Prepayments
13. NON CURRENT ASSETS - LAND AND BUILDINGS
Buildings and improvements - at cost
4,667
2,186
Buildings and improvements - at valuation
85,347
85,347
Accumulated depreciation - buildings and improvements
(20,983)
(18,678)
Written down value - buildings and improvements
69,031
68,855
Total written down value - land and buildings
94,256
94,080
5,324
5,496
578
578
Accumulated depreciation - plant and equipment
(4,516)
(3,734)
Written down value - plant and equipment
1,386
2,340
Exhibition fitout - at cost
4,759
2,827
Exhibition fitout - at valuation
20,455
20,455
Accumulated depreciation - exhibition fitout
(8,961)
(7,833)
Written down value - exhibition fitout
16,253
15,449
Total written down value - plant and equipment
17,639
17,789
14. NON CURRENT ASSETS - PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
Plant and equipment - at cost
Plant and equipment - at valuation
As at 30 June 2001 fully depreciated plant and equipment, original cost $3,530,000 (2000 $3,055,000), is still in use by the
Museum. Although fully depreciated or deemed in the asset revaluation to be of nil service potential value the Museum still continues
to gain economic benefit from the use of this equipment.
FINANCIALS
12. Current assets - other
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
30 JUNE 2001
15. NON-CURRENT ASSETS - COLLECTION
Collection - at cost
940
-
Collection - at valuation
361,076
360,671
Total collection
362,016
360,671
The Museum’s collection comprises of 130,000 registrations consisting of approximately 384,000 objects accumulated since 1880
through purchase, donation and bequest. The objects date back to the pre-christian era with the majority belonging to the 19th and
20th centuries. They cover the broad fields of science, technology, industry, design, decorative arts and history and are sourced from
most parts of the world with particular emphasis on Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA. The collection is unique in its scope and
diversity across cultures, disciplines and centuries.
The Museum incurs continuing expenditure on the research and development, preservation and maintenance of the collection. During
the year $5,084,000 (2000 $6,467,000) was directly expended in this area.
Collection items acquired free of liability during the year have been valued, where values can be reasonably determined, at $405,000
(2000 $244,000). This amount has been treated as a capital expenditure under collection at valuation. Processing costs in relation to
the accessioning have been included in collection at cost.
Reconciliations
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Reconciliations of the carrying amounts of each class of property, plant and equipment at the beginning and end of the current and
previous financial year are set out below.
FINANCIALS
2001
Carrying amount at start of year
Additions
LAND AND BUILDINGS
PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
COLLECTION
TOTAL
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
94,080
17,789
360,671
472,540
2,482
1,998
1,345
5,825
Disposals
(150)
-
(150)
Depreciation expense
(2,306)
-
(1,998)
-
(4,304)
Carrying amount at end of year
94,256
17,639
362,016
473,911
LAND AND BUILDINGS
PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
COLLECTION
TOTAL
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
69,921
17,994
-
87,915
Additions
2,186
2,340
-
4,526
Disposals
-
(71)
-
(71)
-
360,671
384,956
-
(4,786)
360,671
472,540
2000
Carrying amount at start of year
Net revaluation increment less revaluation decrements
24,285
Depreciation expense
(2,312)
(2,474)
Carrying amount at end of year
94,080
17,789
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
16. CURRENT LIABILITIES - PAYABLES
Creditors and accruals
2,972
3,598
208
-
1,807
1,612
17. CURRENT LIABILITIES - INTEREST BEARING LIABILITY
Bank overdraft - unsecured
18. CURRENT LIABILITIES - EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS
AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Recreation leave
Accrued salaries and wages
380
357
2,187
1,969
19. CHANGES IN EQUITY
ACCUMULATED
FUNDS
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
Balance at beginning of year
377,601
17,027
ASSET REVALUATION
RESERVE
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
92,828
TOTAL
EQUITY
2001
$’000
69,278
2000
$’000
470,429
86,305
Changes in equity – other than
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transactions with owners as owners
Surplus (Deficit) for the year
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
30 JUNE 2001
1,779
(97)
-
-
1,779
(97)
-
23,550
Revaluation of land and buildings
-
-
-
23,550
Valuation of the collection
-
360,671
-
-
Total
Balance at end of year
- 360,671
1,779
360,574
-
23,550
1,779 384,124
379,380
377,601
92,828
92,828
472,208 470,429
2001
2000
$’000
$’000
20. COMMITMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE
20.1 Capital commitments
Aggregate capital expenditure contracted
for at balance date and not provided for:
Not later than one year
-
1,181
Later than one year and not later than 5 years
-
-
Later than 5 years
-
-
-
1,181
Not later than one year
842
439
Later than one year and not later than 5 years
482
87
-
-
1,324
526
20.2 Other expenditure commitments
Aggregate other expenditure contracted
for at balance date and not provided for:
Later than 5 years
FINANCIALS
Increment on
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
30 JUNE 2001
20.3 Operating lease commitments
Commitments in relation to non-cancellable
operating leases are payable as follows:
Not later than one year
Later than one year and not later than 5 years
Later than 5 years
864
371
2,213
157
-
-
3,077
528
These operating lease commitments are not recognised in the financial statements as liabilities.
The above commitments include Goods and Services Taxes of $400,000 (2000 $203,000) which will be fully recovered from the
Australian Taxation Office in the month following entry into the Museum’s financial records.
21. BUDGET REVIEW
Net cost of services
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The net cost of services for the year was $2,443,000 (7%) below budget. Major variations were in relation to accessioning costs on
items for the collection, reduction in depreciation and increases in sale of goods and services and grants and contributions.
Accessioning costs in previous years were treated as an expense however following the change in accounting policy these costs are now
capitalised.
FINANCIALS
Assets and liabilities
The main variation to budget in the statement of financial position was an increase in non-current assets of $2,095,000.
The increase was as a result of the capitalisation of processing costs in the accessioning of items for the collection and additions and
improvements to buildings.
Cash flows
Cash and cash equivalents decreased to budget during the year by $484,000. Increase in operating expense payments of $915,000 were
offset by an increase in Government funding of $133,000 and an increase in retained revenues of $930,000 to give an increase in net
cash flows from operating activities of $148,000. Increased expenditure of $632,000 on investing activities was mainly due to the
capitalisation of collection accessioning costs.
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
2001
2000
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
$’000
$’000
22. RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH FLOWS FROM
OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO NET COST OF SERVICES
Net cash used in operating activities
(4,775)
(5,724)
Cash flows from Government
31,258
32,636
4,304
4,786
Adjustments for items not involving cash
Depreciation
Donations to the collection
(405)
-
Increase/(decrease) in creditors and accruals
(626)
1,094
Increase/(decrease) in employee entitlements
218
95
Decrease/(increase) in receivables
(342)
81
Decrease/(increase) in interest receivable
Decrease/(increase) in prepayments
2
9
(110)
(205)
Decrease/(increase) in inventories
(25)
(4)
Net (gain)/loss on sale of plant and equipment
(18)
(35)
Employee entitlement liabilities accepted by the Crown Transactions Entity
Net cost of services
1,565
1,654
31,046
34,387
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
30 JUNE 2001
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23. NON-CASH FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Assistance and contributions received free
of charge from third parties are recorded
as follows:
Revenues
In Note 3.3 - grants and contributions
Non-cash donations - voluntary labour
491
346
Non-cash donations - donations to the collection
405
244
Non-cash donations - goods and services
759
653
1,655
1,243
491
346
Expenses
In Note 2.1 - employee related expenses
Salaries and wages
In Note 2.2 - other operating expenses
Collection management
Collection development and research
Commercial activities
-
6
476
276
8
-
Education and public/members programs
14
6
Exhibition development and maintenance
90
46
Information technology
-
19
Promotional activities
54
101
In Note 2.3 – maintenance
Buildings
522
443
1,655
1,243
FINANCIALS
in the financial statements and included
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
30 JUNE 2001
24. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Cash at bank
Interest is earned on daily balances at a rate set weekly based on the average weekly overnight rate benchmark less a margin
determined at the time of tendering for the account.
Fixed term deposits
The Museum invests in NSW Treasury Corporation Hourglass cash facility and fixed term deposits. The Hourglass facility is represented
by a number of units of a managed investment pool, with each particular pool having different investment horizons and being
comprised of a mix of asset classes appropriate to that investment horizon. TCorp appoints and monitors fund managers and
establishes and monitors the application of appropriate investment guidelines. Available funds are also invested in fixed term deposits
with other commercial banks.
The deposits at balance date were earning an average rate of 5.0% (2000 5.6%), whilst over the year the weighted average interest
rate was 6.2% (2000 5.6%) on an average balance of $2,738,000 (2000 $2,626,000).
Receivables
The credit risk is the carrying amount (net of any provision for doubtful debts). Interest is earned on trade debtors in selected cases
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where extended terms of payment are negotiated. The carrying amount approximates net fair value. Sales are made on 30-day terms.
25. TAX STATUS
FINANCIALS
The activities of the Museum are exempt from income tax.
END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
APPENDIX
The Museum seeks to attract the widest possible
range of customers as participants in its
exhibitions and programs, real and virtual. The
Museum designs and promotes its services in
order to attract people of all ages, cultures,
religions and backgrounds, and provides crosscultural training to staff.
CULTURAL DIVERSITY – ETHNIC AFFAIRS
PRIORITIES STATEMENT
The Museum’s Ethnic Affairs Priorities Statement
(EAPS) is:
The Museum recognises and values the cultural
diversity of the people of Australia and, in all of
its operations, it aims to take account of and
reflect this cultural diversity so that people from
ethnic communities are interested in supporting
and using the Museum.
Following are examples of the Museum’s
activities which deliver outcomes in the three Key
Result Areas (KRAs) of 1) social justice; 2)
community harmony; and 3) economic and
cultural opportunities. All of the Museum’s
cultural diversity services promote community
harmony as each encourages an understanding
and appreciation of different cultures.
Information on the presentation of Indigenous
Australian culture is at page 12. Each of the
Museum’s ethnic affairs initiatives, below,
indicates which of the three Key Result Areas
(KRAs) are served (in brackets, after the
initiative).
Outcomes in 2000–2001
1. Exhibition of 1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient Greece (2).
2. Exhibition of Earth, spirit, fire: Korean
masterpieces of the Choson dynasty (2).
3. Exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex
Leicester – notebook of a genius (2).
4. Exhibition of China, China: recent works in
porcelain by Ah Xian (2, 3).
5. Exhibition of Anne Frank: a history for today
and Courage to care (1, 2, 3).
6. Presentation of public and education
programs which promote the value of cultural
diversity – including programs
complementing the above exhibitions, such
as the Anne Frank Reading Day (1, 2, 3).
7. Publication of 1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient Greece (2).
8. Publication of Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex
Leicester – notebook of a genius (2).
JULY 2000- JUNE 2001
Powerhouse Museum
Sydney Observatory
TOTAL ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS
Off-site exhibitions
Total visitors to on-site and off-site exhibitions
Website users
TOTAL
9. Organisation and presentation of the first
Wattan national forum of Arabic-speaking
Australians (1, 2, 3).
10. Organisation and presentation of the first
Wattan visual arts competition and
exhibition (1, 2, 3).
11. Acquisition of objects which reflect
Australia’s cultural diversity and promote
the creativity of all cultures (1, 2, 3).
12. Training in cross-cultural communication for
Museum staff (1, 2, 3).
13. Promotion of Museum activities which represent
and promote Australia’s cultural diversity –
including on the Museum’s website (2, 3).
14. Active promotion of the principles of EEO (1, 2, 3).
15. Information sought about cultural
background of visitors to increase
participation by people from a variety of
cultural backgrounds (1, 2, 3).
Strategies for 2001–2002
1. Exhibition of Trade winds: arts of South East Asia
from the Powerhouse Museum collection (2).
2. Publication of Arts of South East Asia from
the Powerhouse Museum collection (2).
3. Continued development of Wattan (a
community project promoting the heritage of
Arabic-speaking Australians) (1, 2, 3).
4. Presentation of public and education
programs which promote the value of cultural
diversity (1, 2, 3).
5. Acquisition of objects which reflect
Australia’s cultural diversity and promote the
creativity of all cultures (1, 2, 3).
6. Training in cross-cultural communication for
Museum staff (1, 2, 3).
7. Promotion of Museum activities which represent
and promote Australia’s cultural diversity –
including on the Museum’s website (2, 3).
8. Active promotion of the principles of EEO (1, 2, 3).
9. Museum surveys will continue to seek
information about cultural background of
visitors to increase participation by people from
a variety of cultural backgrounds (1, 2, 3).
ACTION PLAN FOR WOMEN
The Powerhouse Museum supports the whole of
Government approach in meeting the broad
policy outcomes of the Action Plan for Women. It
is recognised that all areas of NSW Government
have a role in improving the economic and social
participation of women by integrating the needs
and concerns of women as part of normal
business. There are no specific commitments in
the plan which refer to the Powerhouse Museum.
469,135
123,795
592,930
518,158
1,111,088
311,856
1,422,944
The objectives of the Government’s Action Plan for
Women of particular relevance to the Museum are
to promote a workplace which is equitable, safe
and responsive to women’s needs; to promote the
position of women in society; to promote access to
and successful outcomes for women in the
education and training system; and to improve
the health and quality of life of women.
The Museum fulfils these objectives in the
following ways:
- implementing EEO policies and practices, OH&S
policies and procedures and flexible working
arrangements;
- offering a mentorship scheme to female staff to
assist them to develop their careers;
- asking gender questions in all surveys to ensure
that women’s needs are being met by Museum
exhibitions, programs and services;
- presenting exhibitions and programs which are
of particular interest to women and which
promote women’s contributions to society such
as the exhibitions Mum Shirl and Plain and
fancy: quilts from the National Quilt Register;
and the travelling exhibitions Births of a nation
and Women with wings.
For further information about the Museum’s
services for women, telephone the Museum’s
Executive Officer on 9217 0576.
DISABILITY PLAN
It is a priority for the Museum to provide excellent
access, services and opportunities for people with
disabilities in accordance with the Museum’s
Disability Plan, which will be reviewed by
December 2002. These services are described in
the Museum’s Guide which is available free to all
visitors. Among special services for people with
disabilities are special booked tours tailored to
each particular group; provision of designated
parking; minimum charges and numbers are
waived on packages for students with disabilities;
theatres are equipped with an induction loop that
enables visitors who use hearing aids with ‘T’
switches to turn them on so they can hear clearly
the amplified speech and soundtracks.
Key achievements in 2000–2001 include special
touch highlight tours developed for visitors
during the Olympic period allowing hands-on
experience for blind visitors and those with visual
and/or physical disabilities.
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2. CUSTOMER DIVERSITY
445,241
127,279
572,520
488,128
1,060,648
172,284
1,232,932
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
1. CUSTOMER NUMBERS
JULY 1999 - JUNE 2000
Powerhouse Museum
Sydney Observatory
TOTAL ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS
Off-site exhibitions
Total visitors to on-site and off-site exhibitions
Website users
TOTAL
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Visitors have enjoyed using SoundHouseTM Special
Access Kits, with features such as special
keyboards with large multi-coloured keys and
switches designed for people who do not have the
fine motor skills normally associated with
musical performance (used by children and
adults with cerebral palsy, paraplegia and
quadriplegia, emotional disturbances and vision
and/or hearing impairment). The kits enable
games activities involving sound effects and
musical sounds, and provide opportunities
for social and interpersonal experience such
as sharing, and simple learning opportunities
around copying and counting, and memory/
sequence games.
Training will continue to be provided to Museum
staff and volunteers who have frequent contact
with visitors with disabilities. There is reference
to people with disabilities and their needs and
rights in both the selection techniques course
and the anti-discrimination course which are
both offered several times a year.
The Museum will continue to develop and present
the above programs and training in 2001–2002.
The Museum will also implement the Seeing blind
project (made possible through a grant from the
Australia Council), which will offer people who
are blind or vision-impaired the chance to ‘see’
through the use of music.
exhibitions that interest them, and to optimise
their participation.
3. SELECTED ACQUISITIONS
During the year the Museum acquired a diverse
range of objects for its collection through
donation, sponsorship, bequest and purchase. All
acquisitions are made in accordance with the
Museum’s Collection Development Policy. The
Museum greatly appreciates the generosity of all
who donated, sponsored or bequeathed objects.
Following is a selection of acquisitions:
Archive, Ken Done and Done Art & Design,
Australia/Japan/England/Sweden, 1950–2000.
Gift of Done Art and Design, April 2001.
[2001/70/1]
Bicycle, children’s, Fairy brand, metal/rubber,
Colson Company, Elyria, Ohio, USA, 1920–1935.
Purchased February 2001. [2001/15/1]
Brooches (5), oxidised steel/silver inlay in Choum
Ibysa technique, made by Joung-Mee Do, Sydney,
Australia, 2001. Purchased with funds from the
Yasuko Myer Bequest, May 2001. [2001/40/1:2]
SERVICES FOR SENIORS
Bunnykins games figures (5) with stand, made
for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games,
earthenware/wood, designed by Romanda Groom,
modelled by Shane Ridge, made by Royal
Doulton, Australia/England 1995–2000. Gift of
Royal Doulton Australia Wholesale Pty Ltd, May
2001. [2001/4/1]
The Museum welcomes visitors, users, members
and volunteers of all ages and offers assistance
to frail aged visitors to the Museum.
Business suit, men’s, wool, designed and made
by Lowes Ltd, Australia, 1950. Gift of Mr Kendall
Bamfield, May 2001. [2001/38/1]
The Museum represents older people as positive
role models, as in the exhibition Women with wings
which celebrates the careers of Australian women
of many ages who have forged careers in aviation.
Capitals, Stenocarpus and Waratah, polystyrene/
elastomer ardcoat/gesso/enamel paint/gold leaf,
designed by Lucien Henry 1889–1891, and
commissioned by the Museum to be made by
Storageman Pty Ltd, Australia, 2001. Purchased
January 2001. [2001/30/1]
Research is conducted into the participation of
older people to determine the types of exhibitions
that interest them and the issues which affect
them, in order to optimise their participation.
During Seniors Week, 19–23 March 2001, the
Museum provided free Cyberworlds exhibition
tours for seniors every afternoon.
Museum volunteers provide outreach services to
community groups including seniors groups,
aged day care centres and nursing homes.
SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The following exhibitions attracted significant
numbers of young people in 2000–2001: 1000
years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient
Greece; Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester –
notebook of a genius; and World of LEGO.
Exhibitions which featured the work of young
people in the period included The Sydney Morning
Herald Young Designer of the Year Award; Young
scientist 2000; DesignTech 2000; and Student
Fashion Awards 2000. Travelling exhibitions with
special interest for young people included Young
scientist 1999 and Young scientist 2000.
Education programs tailored to specific groups
are offered regularly at the Powerhouse Museum
and Sydney Observatory. They include regular
programs in the Information Technology Centre
and the SoundHouseTM.
Research is conducted into the participation of
young people to determine the types of
Ceiling and cornice section, polychrome, based
on design by Lucien Henry for the Hotel Australia
in Sydney, aluminium/fibreglass/plaster/vacuum
formed polyurethane/medium density fibreboard/
paint/gold leaf, designed by Lucien Henry
1889–1891, and commissioned by the Museum
to be made by T. W. Ingham & Sons Pty Ltd,
Australia, 2000. Purchased January 2001.
[2001/31/1]
Collection of items from the remains of airliner,
Southern cloud, which crashed near Cooma in
1931: oil pressure indicator, metal, Smiths,
England, 1928; shut-off cock, fuel or oil, metal,
unknown maker, 1928; identification tag, brass,
Avro; fuel cap, bronze/brass, Avro (A. V. Roe and
Co Ltd, Manchester), England, 1928. This aircraft
was owned and operated by Sir Charles Kingsford
Smith and Charles Ulm’s airline, Australian
National Airways. The crash site was located in
1958 and the donor, James Conroy, of Randwick,
New South Wales, was one of the first on the
scene. Gift of Mr James Conroy, Randwick, New
South Wales, June 2001. [2001/46/1:2:3:4]
Conduit sections (2) from the tank stream,
oviform, brickwork/terracotta, excavated 1999
from No 1 Martin Place, Sydney, Australia, built c.
1866. Gift of Grocon Pty Ltd, January 2001.
[2001/11/1:2]
Electronic musical instrument, theremin, Bob
Moog Etherwave signature series, timber/metal,
Big Briar Inc, USA, 2001. Purchased April 2001.
[2001/67/1]
Helmet, Tuffmaster III, plastic/leather, Protector
Safety, Australia, 1989, and helmet lamp and
battery, Oldham Type T2, plastic/metal/
chemicals, together with a group of objects
including miners boots, mine gas detector kit,
safety lamp, and earplugs used at Cooranbong
Colliery, NSW, made by Oldham & Son Ltd,
England (1989–1999). Gift of Cooranbong
Colliery – Powercoal Pty Ltd, Dora Creek, New
South Wales, November 2000. [2000/113/1: 12]
Log book, RAAF and Frigate bird II, paper/fabric,
recorded by Angus Allison, Royal Australian Air
Force, Australia, 1943–1955 and pennant,
souvenir of the Frigate bird II flight to Chile,
Escuadrilla Catalina Chile, fabric, unknown
maker, Chile, 1950–1951. Gift of Mrs Patricia
Allison, May 2001. [2001/44/1:2]
Medallion of allegorical head of ‘Tasmania’,
painted plaster/wood frame/iron nails, designed
by Lucien Henry, 1888–89, made by J. R. Tranthim
Fryer, Tasmania, 1892. Purchased October 2000.
[2000/115/1]
Medical teaching model (obstetric phantom) of
female abdomen and foetus, leather, maker
unknown, United Kingdom, 1900. Purchased June
2001. [2001/55/1]
Neckring, silver, designed and made by Darani
Lewers and Helge Larsen in Sydney, Australia,
1964–1965. Gift of Ms Caroline Ralston (Nagasuri),
Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 2001.
[2001/43/1]
Neckties (76), owned and worn by the Hon.
Peter Collins QC MP, Trent Nathan/Ermenegeldo
Zegna/Dior/Pierre Cardin/Charles Jourdan, Australia/
Italy/United States of America/England/New
Zealand/ West Germany, 1965–1998, with storage
box; a school necktie, framed, Kogarah Marist
Brothers High School, wool/wood/metal/glass,
used by Peter Collins, maker unknown, Australia,
1957–1958 and a framed colour photographic
portrait of Peter Collins, by Anne Zahalka,
Australia, 1989–2001. Gift of the Hon. Peter
Collins QC MP, March 2001. 2001/68/1:2:3:4]
Office chair, Aeron, polymer/aluminium/polyester,
Pellicle upholstery, designed by Bill Stumpf/Don
Chadwick in 1994, made by Herman Miller Inc,
USA, 1999. Gift of Herman Miller (Aust) Pty Ltd,
Pyrmont, New South Wales, October 2000.
[2000/111/1]
Opium pipe, bamboo/plastic/brass/ceramic,
Singapore, 1960–1980. Gift of Dr Bryan Gandevia,
March 2001. [2001/3/6]
Scooter, Razor MS 130, aluminium/plastics, JD
Corporation, China, 2000. Purchased June 2001.
[2001/59/1]
Sculpture, Wallwork, plastic/wood/perspex,
commissioned by the Museum to be made by John
Dahlsen, Byron Bay, Australia, 2001. Purchased
June 2001. [2001/54/1]
Solar hot water system, model 181L,
glass/steel/plastic, Solahart Industries Pty Ltd,
Australia, 2001. Gift of Sydney Solahart, June
2001. [2001/60/2]
Stamper battery, five head (No. 123), metal/timber,
P. N. Russell and Company, Sydney, Australia,
1872. Purchased January 2001. [2001/1/1]
Swimsuits, men’s and women’s, Fastskin, with
goggles/packaging/swimcap, as used by the
Australian team, Olympic Games Sydney 2000.
Gift of Speedo Australia Pty Ltd, February 2001.
[2001/35/1:2]
Table, pedestal, marble, Frank Rusconi/Peter
Rusconi, Borenore, New South Wales, Australia,
1901–1905. Gift of Mr Eric Rusconi, Mona Vale,
New South Wales, May 2001. [2001/39/1]
Tapestry, Modern woman, cotton rope, Janet
Brereton, Australia, 1991. Gift of Mr Kurt
Brereton, January 2001. [2001/8/1]
Umbrella prototype, foldable, silk and metal,
designed and made by Slawa Horowitz, Vienna,
Austria, 1928. Purchased May 2001. [2001/42/1]
Vase A51 and vase A56 from the Amnesie series,
aluminium, Andrea Branzi, Italy, 1991. Gift of the
Design Gallery Milano, Milan, Italy, October 2000.
[2000/116/1:2]
Vase, Farm Cove and Garden Palace, earthenware,
painted by Leonard Bentley, made by Doulton &
Co, England, 1882. Purchased December 2000.
[2000/138/1]
Vase, Jack in the pulpit, favrile glass, Louis
Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co, Corona, New York,
USA, c. 1900–1908. Purchased with the assistance
of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society,
Kuring-gai, January 2001. [2001/9/1]
Vase, porcelain, with crazed peach-bloom glaze,
by Col Levy, NSW, Australia, 1990. Purchased
June 2001. [2001/63/1]
Vases (2) and covers from the 100% make up
series, porcelain, designed by Alessandro
Mendini and Michael Graves for Alessi, Italy,
1989–92. Gift of Alessi SPA, Milan, Italy, October
2000. [2000/112/1:2]
Vases (2), Cell series, glass/cold assembled
murrini, by Giles Bettison, South Australia, 2001.
Purchased June 2001. [2001/62/1:2]
Vases, Spiral form (two), and Spiral lipped bowl,
porcelain and terracotta. Gift of Victor
Greenaway, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, May 2001.
[2001/41/1:2:3]
Water quality monitoring kit used by
Streamwatch, LaMotte SMART Colorimeter kit,
plastic/metal/foam/glass/bottled chemicals,
Vendart Pty Ltd, Australia, 2001. Gift of Vendart
Pty Ltd, June 2001. [2001/57/1]
Women’s outfit, cotton mix dress/leather shoes,
dress designed and made by Karen Walker, shoes
designed by Karen Walker and made in the workshop
of Donna-May Bolinger, New Zealand/Italy, 2000.
Purchased May 2001. [2001/66/1]
Women’s outfit, including jacket, skirt, bag,
boots, in cotton/lycra/silk/metal/leather, designed
by John Galliano for the Christian Dior Spring
Writing desk, portfolio style, and desk
accessories used by Jessie Street, Australia,
1935–1970. Gift of Ms Paula Masselos, May
2001. [2001/36/1]
4. EXHIBITIONS
Following are the exhibitions which opened in
2000–2001. These are in addition to the
exhibitions which were available to the public
during the period but opened before 1 July 2000.
Elements of permanent exhibitions (from single
objects to whole sections) are also changed
frequently which provides visitors with a fresh
look at the exhibition theme and also protects
objects (such as textiles).
Temporary exhibitions –
official events in the Sydney 2000
Olympic Arts Festival
1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures
of ancient Greece
18 July 2000 – 15 November 2000
More than a sporting competition, the ancient
Olympics were dedicated to the Greek gods. The
myths and rituals, the sports and spectacle of
the ancient games were displayed. Extraordinary
objects in bronze, marble and clay, produced
between the 8th century BCE and the 3rd century
AD. This magnificent collection of Greek national
treasures has never before been seen outside
Greece. In cutting-edge virtual reality visitors
could admire the virtual god Zeus and explore
ancient Olympia.
An exhibition organised and lent by the Hellenic
Ministry of Culture, Athens, as a contribution to
the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Developed by the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Principal sponsor: Intel. Sponsor: Olympic
Airways. Supporters: The Sun-Herald and
Talkradio 2UE 954 AM. An official event in the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester –
notebook of a genius
5 September – 5 November 2000
This popular exhibition featured The Codex
Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s original
scientific notebooks. It provided a rare insight
into the inquiring mind of the definitive
Renaissance artist, scientist and thinker as well
as an exceptional illustration of the link between
art and science. This exhibition brought to life da
Vinci’s observations and theories on astronomy,
the properties of water, rocks and fossils, air and
celestial light through an interactive CD-ROM
program. A timeline brought together the arts,
science and politics of the era.
The Codex Leicester was on loan from Bill and
Melinda Gates. Major sponsors: Microsoft; News
Limited. Sponsored by Corbis Corporation.
Supported by Samsung Electronics Australia. An
official event in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts
Festival.
Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the
Choson dynasty
7 September 2000 – 28 January 2001
The first major exhibition in Australia featuring
ceramics, furniture, painting and calligraphy
from Korea, highlighted the outstanding
creativity of artists from the Choson dynasty
(1392–1910). The simplicity and beauty of these
historic objects reflect a distinctive Korean
aesthetic, one that strives to achieve balance
between human beings, nature and the cosmos.
Organised by the Powerhouse Museum, the
Queensland Art Gallery and the National Museum
of Korea, in association with the Ho-Am Art
Museum. Principal sponsor: Samsung Electronics,
Australia. Sponsor: Singapore Airlines. Supporters:
Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of
Korea; Australia-Korea Foundation. An official
event in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
Other temporary exhibitions presented
during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Greek musical instruments
27 July – 29 November 2000
A collection of reproduction ancient Greek
musical instruments made and lent by Harry
Vatiliotis were displayed to coincide with the
1000 years of the Olympic Games exhibition.
The Parthenon marbles and the Elgin story
17 August – 15 November 2000
The important issue of cultural repatriation was
addressed by this exhibit, to augment a high
profile seminar held on 25 August 2000.
Korean musical instruments
7 September 2000 – 30 May 2001
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Square piano, timber and metal, Collard &
Collard, England, 1860–1865. Gift of John and
Fiona Davies, April 2001. [2001/53/1]
Summer 2000 ready-to-wear collection, Christian
Dior, France/Italy, 2000. Gift of Christian Dior
Australia Pty Ltd, May 2001. [2001/37/1]
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A number of Korean musical instruments,
generously donated by the Korean Ministry of
Culture, were displayed to coincide with the
Earth, spirit, fire exhibition.
Renaissance dinner display
16–18 September 2000
A display of key items from the collection and
proposed acquisitions for the new decorative arts
and design gallery were displayed for the
corporate dinner held with Bill and Melinda Gates.
Post a winner!
18 September – 15 November 2000
Australia Post selected an Australian Olympic
Gold Medal winner (or winners) from the Sydney
2000 Olympics each day to be represented on a
postage stamp, which was then issued the
following day. These were displayed at the
Powerhouse Museum from the day they were
issued, each framed with a page (usually the
front page) from the newspaper featuring
photographs of the winners.
Let the Games begin: costumes from the
Olympic Games opening ceremony
21 September – 25 October 2000
Costumes from the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
opening ceremony showcasing leading Australian
fashion designers, Jenny Kee, Lisa Ho and Peter
Morrissey, were displayed with audiovisuals of
the Arrivals segment of the ceremony, which
celebrates Australia’s vibrant multicultural
society. Two elaborate fish models seen in the
Deep sea dreaming segment were also displayed.
Olympic torch display
29 September – 29 November 2000
The torch used by Cathy Freeman to light the
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Space shuttle, model, 1:16 scale, fibreglass/
wood/metal, made by Golden Era Classics,
Australia, 1998. Purchased January 2001.
[2001/5/1]
cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games, the Olympic torch that was
flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and the
Paralympic torch were prominently displayed.
Other temporary exhibitions
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Frank Bauer: designer – jewellery, metalwork,
lighting 1975–2000
2 August – 15 October 2000
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A survey of the work of Frank Bauer (b. 1942), an
Adelaide-based designer whose jewellery and
metalwork has won international acclaim. The
exhibition displayed the full range of Bauer’s
designs, from the 1970s to the present, including
jewellery, metalwork, spectacles and innovative
lighting structures, and was a highlight of
Sydney Design Week.
An exhibition from JamFactory Contemporary
Craft and Design, Adelaide, assisted by the South
Australian Government through Arts SA.
Sponsored by CIDA Group Pty Ltd. Developed in
association with the Powerhouse Museum.
Black gold: photos of fame
19 August – 12 November 2000
A vibrant photographic display that showcased
Australia’s most successful Indigenous sporting
personalities. Featuring biographies of famous
sporting personalities such as Wendell Sailor,
Laurie Daly and Shane King.
Young scientist 2000
26 October – 26 November 2000
An exhibition developed in partnership with the
Science Teachers’ Association of NSW featuring
winning and selected entries from the Intel Young
Scientist 2000 Award. An inspirational exhibition
featuring working models, multimedia and
research projects created by the top young
scientists in the State.
Sponsored by Intel.
Grand Marnier/Powerhouse Museum Fashion
of the year 2000
20 November 2000 – 19 November 2001
An annual selection of contemporary fashion by
top Australian and international fashion
designers of the year.
Mum Shirl: the sacred trust of memory
29 November 2000 – 28 February 2001
A visual arts tribute by Aboriginal people to the
life and memory of long-term campaigner for
Indigenous social justice, Shirley Smith of
Redfern, fondly known as ‘Mum Shirl’. It featured
artworks by those involved in the correctional
system.
LEGO action show 2000
2 December 2000 – 11 March 2001
Federation stories
23 December 2000 – 28 February 2001
Science Week – Electronica
From 5 May 2001 (end-date not yet scheduled)
Historic material exploring the politics and
celebrations of 1901. On 8 January 2001 a
selection of costumes from Sydney’s 2001
Centenary of Federation parade were added.
A display of electronic musical instruments,
initially displayed to coincide with Science Week.
Gordon Andrews: a tribute
24 January – 23 May 2001
A tribute to the work of Gordon Andrews
(1914–2001), one of Australia’s foremost
designers.
Citizens and the city
7 February – 26 June 2001
A unique insight into the people and culture of
Sydney around the time of Federation was
presented through a selection of photographs
from the Museum’s huge and extraordinary Tyrrell
Collection of glass plate negatives from the
1880s to the 1900s.
Australian Design Awards 2001
20 February – 25 April 2001
The Australian Design Awards program recognises
innovation and excellence in product design.
More than 70 outstanding products were selected
as finalists in the categories of furniture,
engineering, software and industrial design.
China, China: recent works in porcelain by Ah Xian
14 March – 16 September 2001
Porcelain body-casts by the Chinese-Australian
artist Ah Xian in Jingdezhen China, the birthplace
of porcelain. Painted with imperial dragons, lotus
flowers and the idealised landscapes of
traditional Chinese porcelain.
Visions of a republic: the work of Lucien Henry
3 April – 14 October, 2001
The French-Australian artist Lucien Henry
(1850–96) was one of the earliest artists to
propose a school of Australian public art,
architecture and design. Henry’s extraordinary
life, work and vision are expounded through 570
objects in the Powerhouse Museum’s major
exhibition to celebrate the Centenary of
Federation.
Supported by Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour
and Talkradio 2UE 954 AM.
Student Fashion Awards 2000
10 April – 24 June 2001
Winning entries from a range of industrysponsored student fashion awards as well as
outfits by the top final year students from major
Australian fashion design schools.
Wattan
27 April – 23 May 2001
Of great popular appeal, the latest interactive
LEGO technology, featuring Mindstorms, Star
Wars and Football, was displayed as part of a
major holiday program about robotics.
A display of winners and selected entries in the
Wattan Art Competition, which was established
to complement the Wattan National Forum, a
community project promoting the heritage of
Arabic-speaking Australians.
Supported by Samsung Electronics.
Sponsored by Arab Bank Australia.
DesignTech 2000
6 December 2000 – 18 March 2001
Manikay Ghingarr: NAISDA’s 25th anniversary
1 May – 22 July 2001
An exhibition developed in partnership with the
NSW Board of Studies, featuring outstanding
major design projects from 2000 Higher School
Certificate Design and Technology students.
A retrospective of costumes, programs, posters
and photos from the National Aboriginal Islander
Skills Development Association (NAISDA) based
in The Rocks, Sydney.
Plain and fancy: quilts from the
National Quilt Register
From 20 May 2001 (end-date not yet scheduled)
A display to celebrate the launch of the website
of the National Quilt Register on 20 May 2001.
The full exhibition was opened on 21 June 2001.
Visitors could access the database and view a
selection of needlework and quilts from the
Powerhouse Museum’s collection. The Museum’s
most noted quilt, The medallion quilt, made by
Amelia Brown in about 1860 featuring the
unofficial Australian coat of arms, was
displayed.
Anne Frank: a history for today
26 May – 8 July 2001
The ideals expressed in the famous diary of Anne
Frank were presented in this exhibition in a way
that is relevant to discussion about racism and
human rights today. The concepts of tolerance,
mutual respect and democracy were explored in
the exhibition, and in accompanying audiovisual
and education programs. A highlight was the
interactive CD-ROM virtual journey through the
Anne Frank house, as it was when Anne wrote her
diary. Developed by the Anne Frank House,
Amsterdam.
Media sponsors: Talkradio 2UE 954 AM and SBS
Television.
Courage to care
26 May – 8 July 2001
Developed by the international Jewish community
service organisation, B’nai B’rith, this exhibition
and education program uses the historical events
of the Holocaust to teach that the individual can
make a difference.
Gerard Herbst
26 May – 5 August 2001
A tribute to the life and work of the GermanAustralian photographer and designer, Gerard
Herbst (b. 1911).
Travelling exhibitions
The following Museum exhibitions commenced
tours during 2000–2001:
Minted, noted and stamped: images of
Australia at Federation
An exhibition about Australia’s numismatics and
philately at the time of Federation. More
information about this exhibition is at page 11.
Narrandera Shire Library (28 July – 4 September
2000); Corowa Library (7 September – 7 October
2000); Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson
(12 October – 25 November 2000); Parliamentary
Library, Canberra (7 December 2000 – 15 January
2001); Parkes Shire Library (19 January – 18
March 2001); Bathurst City Library (22 March –
16 May 2001); Bathurst stamp, coin and
collectables expo (19–20 May 2001); Macquarie
Regional Library, Dubbo (23 May – 22 June 2001).
component for small local history museums and
hospitals. Made possible by a grant from the
National Council of the Centenary of Federation.
More information is on page 11.
provided the first time the activity is listed if the
activity is not obvious from the title):
Daily events at the Powerhouse Museum
Barrel organ plays in The steam revolution (twice
daily). The Fotoplayer, a mechanical music- and
sound-effects maker from early this century,
accompanies a silent film.
Northern Regional Library, Moree (2 August –
2 September 2000); Killer Whale Museum, Eden
(12 September – 15 October 2000).
Orange City Library (3 May – 24 June 2001);
Golden Memories Museum, Millthorpe (satellite
exhibit) (12–30 May 2001); Carcoar Hospital
Museum (satellite exhibit) (2–17 June 2001);
Bathurst Library (satellite exhibit) (20 June – 25
July 2001).
Young scientist 2000
Circus interactives
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
(7 December 2000 – 22 January 2001); Southern
Tablelands Regional Library, Goulburn (25
January – 19 February 2001); Newcastle Regional
Museum (22 February – 15 March 2001); Orange
City Library (19 March – 17 April 2001);
Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo (19 April – 21
May 2001); Northern Regional Library, Moree (24
May – 18 June 2001); Clarence Regional Library,
Grafton (21 June – 30 July 2001).
Several of the interactives developed for children
under 8 were toured to use as a stimulus for
regional venues to develop their own story of the
circus. These include computer interactives
which allow children to paint a clown face and
‘ring that bell’ which allows children to test their
jumping force.
Sharing a Wailwan story
Steam locomotive 3830 tours regional NSW with
assistance from Powerhouse Museum curatorial
and conservation/restoration staff. In 2000–2001,
2,854 passengers enjoyed Loco 3830 trips to the
following destinations (with many more people
enjoying the sights and sounds of the loco in
passing): Katoomba (two trips) in July 2000;
Clandulla (on the Mudgee line) in October 2000;
Broadmeadow (new Newcastle) in February 2001;
the Southern Highlands (Moss Vale/Robertson –
the ‘long lunch train’) in March 2001; Maitland
and Paterson (for the Hunter Valley Steamfest) in
April 2001; Cootamundra in May 2001; Newcastle
(for the 20th Anniversary of the Hunter Valley
Training Company) in June 2001.
Additional weekend and holiday regular
events at the Powerhouse Museum
Long-term off-site exhibitions
The Museum also presents a range of school visit
packages and education services tailored to
booked education groups, including Information
Technology Centre and SoundHouse programs
(see page 12).
Young scientist 1999
This exhibition of photographs provides a rare
insight into the culture of the Wailwan, Aboriginal
people from central western NSW.
Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG),
Hunts Motel Function Centre, Liverpool (19 – 23
October 2000); The Greater Cobar Heritage Centre
(27 March – 10 June 2001); Parkes Shire Library
(15 June – 7 July 2001).
Anne Frank: a history for today
A graphic presentation with an audiovisual about
the Frank family as an ordinary family in
extraordinary circumstances.
Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier (6 February –
4 March 2001).
Women with wings: images of
Australian women pilots
This exhibition presents colour and black & white
photographic portraits of 33 women who have
played an essential, but largely unacknowledged,
role in the development of Australia’s aviation
industry. It includes brief biographies and
personal quotes and anecdotal interviews on
video. Following the success at the Powerhouse
Museum a Visions (Federal Government Touring
Agency) Grant was received to tour the exhibition
both regionally and interstate.
Parramatta Heritage Centre (23 February –
29 April 2001); Back o’ Bourke Exhibition Centre
(17 May – 24 June 2001).
Grafton Regional Gallery (1 June – 15 July 2001).
Steam locomotive 3830 trips
The following long-term/permanent exhibitions
continued to be displayed off-site in the period,
having commenced display before 1 July 2000.
Those with significant interactive components,
such as the KIDS displays, receive regular
maintenance from Museum staff.
KIDS (Kids Interactive Display System) you and me
This purpose-built environment provides young
children with unsupervised educational activities
on the theme of health. New Children’s Hospital,
Westmead – permanent.
KIDS (Kids Interactive Display System) child
health promotion unit
This unit was tailored for use by the New
Children’s Hospital Westmead (permanent).
Anne Frank and Courage to care
Medicine through the ages
(See previous page for description.) The
Powerhouse Museum added educational material
for this showing, some of which continued to tour
with the exhibition.
A display from the Museum’s bio-medical
collection.
Courage to care was developed by the
international Jewish community service
organisation, B’nai B’rith.
Garvan Institute of Medical Research (1 May
1999 – May 2002).
Sharing a Wailwan story
(See description, above, and page 13)
Western Australia Museum, Perth (14 March –
20 May 2001).
Quambone Public School NSW (permanent).
Births of a nation: women, childbirth and
Federation
Museum activities are outlined in the Museum’s
monthly What’s on listing and the quarterly
Guide, which are available to all visitors. The
following public and education programs were
presented during the year (descriptions are
A multi-media exhibition about women’s
experiences of childbirth early last century. This
exhibition toured regional NSW with a satellite
5. PUBLIC AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Highlight tours.
Pixel, the Powerhouse’s artificially intelligent
‘digital dog’ demonstrates its ability to learn,
interact with its environment and perform tricks.
Screenings of classic Australian silent films such
as The sentimental bloke or The kid stakes in the
Kings Cinema.
SoundHouse open house.
Steam engines in operation.
‘Strasburg’ clock performance.
Science on show
Hands-on internet surfing sessions.
Regular events at Sydney Observatory
Nightly viewing sessions including a film, talk,
exhibition visit and viewing through a state-ofthe-art 16-inch mirror telescope (an audiovisual
show is presented if weather is not suitable).
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Presenting the best entrants and winners of the
Young Scientist Competition, including models,
photographic studies, folios and computer-based
research projects.
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Sydney Observatory also presents other regular
events on weekends and holidays.
Booked education programs
July 2000
Events at the Powerhouse Museum
LEGO mindstorms: visitors built robots and
played with LEGO.
Internet lecture: introduction to the Internet.
Techno hootenanny: weekend fun and learning on
the theme of robots.
Electronic art films: including Star wars and Toy
story.
Robo-tork: Nigel Sutton interacted with visitors
as the programmable robot, Tork2U.
Face of the future: special effects make-up [for
ages 5–12].
Be a bug!: Circus Solaris helped visitors design
millennium bug costumes from recycled material
[for ages 5–12].
Groovy video games: visitors played early video
games such as Space invaders and Pacman.
Zounds! Into the ether: visitors had fun with
computer technology and created a story with
sound-effects [for ages 5–10].
Art deco movies: Australian movies from the
1930s in the art deco Kings Cinema.
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Young scientist 1999 and 2000
August 2000
Events at the Powerhouse Museum
demonstration exploring the natural phenomena
that fascinated Leonardo da Vinci.
Programs associated with 1000 years of the
Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece
Video screenings: programs about Leonardo’s life
and work, and the Renaissance.
Classical Greece: a variety of programs about the
life, politics, architecture and art of classical Greece.
Leonardo and the ‘Strasburg’ clock: talks linking
the Museum’s ‘Strasburg’ clock model with
Leonardo’s creativity and the Renaissance.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Sports: ancient and modern: activity sessions
which looked at modern Olympic sports and their
origins in ancient Greek contests.
Gods and gorgons: interactive storytelling sessions
with Nigel Sutton on the theme of Greek myths.
Seminar: Parthenon marbles: speakers: The
Honourable E. G. Whitlam, AC, QC; David Hill;
George Vardas; Kylie Winkworth.
Recital: Homeric hymns: presented by students
from Sydney University’s Department of Classics.
Lecture: Zeus and Olympia: presented by Timothy
Hart, the Museum’s Associate Director,
Information and Knowledge Management.
Lecture: Recreating lost music: presented by
Professor Michael Atherton from the University of
Western Sydney.
Programs associated with Bayagul:
contemporary Indigenous communication
Hosts: Indigenous hosts answered visitors’
questions in the exhibition.
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Programs associated with
Sydney Design Week
Lecture: The power of erotic design: Catherine
McDermott, curator of The power of erotic design
exhibition at the Design Museum, London,
discussed the role of eroticism in 20th Century
design. Ms McDermott’s visit was supported by
the British Council, the Powerhouse Museum and
the UNSW College of Fine Arts.
The Sydney Morning Herald and Powerhouse
Museum Sydney Design Week 2000 lecture: a
lecture by Harry Seidler, acclaimed Sydney-based
architect, and Gabriel Poole, winner of the 1998
Royal Australian Institute of Architects gold medal.
Design Information Day: practising architects
and landscape designers talked to visitors about
design. Supported by the RAIA (NSW branch), DIA
and NSW Waste Boards.
September 2000
Programs associated with 1000 years of
the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient
Greece
Classical Greece: daily presentation of videos
about classical Greece.
Gods and gorgons.
Sports: ancient and modern.
The athletes of Olympia: whole day exploration
presented by the Powerhouse and WEA.
Festival of Greek films: screenings of films based
on Greek myths.
Ancient Olympia: a virtual exploration of Olympia.
Programs associated with Leonardo da
Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of
a genius
Imagining Leonardo: interactive science
Inspired by Leonardo: a walk with Claude Novel to
explore connections between some of the
Museum’s exhibitions and Leonardo’s creative
ideas and inventions.
Programs associated with Earth, spirit,
fire: Korean masterpieces of the
Choson dynasty
Programs associated with 1000 years
of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece
Gods and gorgons.
Programs associated with Earth, spirit, fire:
Korean masterpieces of the Choson dynasty
Touch table.
Programs associated with Bayagul:
contemporary Indigenous communication
Bayagul hosts.
Special tours
Australian experience.
Lecture: Korean ceramics of the Choson dynasty:
presented by Dr Chung Yang-mo, the co-curator
of the exhibition and an internationally renowned
scholar of Korean art and sculpture.
Touch highlights: a special hands-on tour of
exhibitions and some significant objects –
suitable for blind and visually-impaired visitors.
Touch trolley: visitors examined and handled
objects such as a scholar’s desk set and a
calligraphy scroll.
Lunar open night: an opportunity for visitors to see
the Moon in its first quarter and observe the craters
and mountain ranges on its surface through
telescopes, along with talks about the Moon.
Video screenings: videos about Korean arts and
culture.
Samullori: drumming and dancing performances
by the National Centre for Korean Traditional
Performing Arts Samullori percussion group.
Samullori was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture
and Tourism of the Republic of Korea. It was part of
the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
Harvest festival community day: the Sydney
Korean community and the Samullori percussion
group celebrated the Harvest Festival with music,
dance, calligraphy and food.
Programs associated with Bayagul:
contemporary Indigenous communication
Curator-led tours: curators led tours of the
Bayagul exhibition.
Bayagul hosts: Indigenous hosts answered
visitors’ questions in the exhibition.
Indigenous fashion parade: a parade of fashion
by Indigenous Australian designers.
Special tour
Australian experience: special Powerhouse tours
highlighting Australian innovation and achievements.
Sydney Observatory
Hercules meets the Goori Goori bird: activities
and talks about the Aboriginal Dreamtime and
ancient Greek heroes.
October 2000
Programs associated with Leonardo da
Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of
a genius
Imagining Leonardo.
Video screenings.
Inspired by Leonardo.
Interpreting Leonardo – master class: a display of
reinterpretations of Leonardo’s ideas by students
from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.
Seminar: Leonardo da Vinci – the creative
imagination: presented by the Museum with WEA,
with lectures, tour of the exhibition and hands-on
session using the Codex CD-ROM
Sydney Observatory
Astronomical concepts: a ten-week course about
the cosmos covering a wide range of
astronomical concepts, including telescope
viewings on clear nights.
November 2000
Programs associated with 1000 years
of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece
Gods and gorgons.
Greek day: presented by members of Sydney’s
Greek community to celebrate the last days of the
1000 years of the Olympic Games exhibition –
included traditional music and dance, displays of
regional crafts, ceramic-making and contemporary
art; videos about Greece and film screenings, a
performance and Olympic sports activities.
Programs associated with Leonardo da Vinci:
the Codex Leicester – notebook of a genius
Imagining Leonardo.
Italian by design: to mark the end of the Leonardo
exhibition, the Museum showcased Italian design,
innovation and excellence – from the latest
Ferrari to the zero-emission buses used in Rome,
as well as the FILA shoes and uniform worn by
Italian athletes at the Sydney Olympic Games.
Video screenings.
Interpreting Leonardo – master class.
Programs associated with Earth, spirit, fire:
Korean masterpieces of the Choson dynasty
Touch table.
December 2000
Program associated with LEGO action show
LEGO fun day: visitors had the opportunity to
make their own movies in the LEGO studios, build
a life-sized clown, compete in a model soccer
stadium, see LEGO robots performing and more.
Programs associated with Earth, spirit, fire:
Korean masterpieces of the Choson dynasty
Touch table.
Build a robot: children built their own robot and
programmed it to carry out simple tasks.
Mission to planet Freeze: an interactive science
show in which young visitors found out what
happened to Robbie the Robot when he is sent to
a planet where the temperature is minus 196
degrees Celsius.
Film: The iron giant: The animated adventures of
Hogarth Hughes and his very big friend the Iron Giant.
Tron-X: the mechanical man, Tron-X, an
animated humanoid robot from Festo and
Showtronics, performs.
Clash of the Titans: special viewings of the two
giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn.
February 2001
Events
SoundHouse open house: Museum staff helped
visitors use the SoundHouseTM software and
systems to perform, experiment and assemble
their own music and audio-visual projects.
Mission to planet Freeze
Sydney Observatory
Lunar photography: visitors learned how to take
photos of the Moon through a telescope.
turn-of-the-19th-century-style sideshow theatre and
circus, with juggling, puppetry, magic and more.
Build a Federation arch with Circus Solaris:
young visitors helped Circus Solaris build an arch
similar to the triumphal arches which were
erected along the parade route for the 1901
Federation celebration parade through the
streets of Sydney.
Lucien live: final year acting students presented
a dramatic interpretation of Lucien Henry’s life in
Paris, his exile to Noumea and his work in Sydney
as an artist and educator.
Soapbox republic: a soapbox orator from 1900,
played by Nigel Sutton, led visitors through the
exhibition Lucien Henry: visions of a republic.
Songs of Communard France: cabaret singer
Jenny Vuletic sang a cappella in the Lucien
Henry: visions of a republic exhibition.
RoboCup challenge: the world champions in the
‘Sony legged robots division’ of RoboCup 2000
compete in a robot soccer demonstration.
Astronomical concepts course: a ten-week course
covering advanced concepts in astronomy.
Leadlight coat of arms: visitors made their own
leadlight coat of arms, inspired by the designs of
Lucien Henry, using computer technology.
Tork2U on tour: Nigel Sutton as Tork2U, the
friendly robot, takes visitors on a tour of the
Museum to meet his family.
Champagne supper viewing for romantics:
special Valentine’s Day stargazing at Sydney
Observatory with light supper and champagne.
Federation arts: demonstrations of the lacemaking
and embroidery styles of the Federation era.
Danger! Will Robinson!: In the Universal machine
exhibition, Lewis Morley reprised his role of Robot
as he played it in the TV series Lost in space.
Airboard: visitors saw the Arbortech Airboard
(personal hovercraft) in action – direct from the
opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games.
Virtual soccer: the CSIRO’s Cyberoos took on the
German team Lucky Luebeck in the Simulation
League of RoboCup 2000.
SF classic film screenings: I, robot (an episode of
the cult sci-fi television series, The outer limits);
Forbidden planet; and The day the Earth stood still.
March 2001
Events
‘Cyberworlds’ tour for seniors: free 30-minute
guided tours of the exhibition Cyberworlds:
computers and connections (formerly Universal
machine) for Seniors Week in 2001, the theme of
which was technology.
Lecture: Mars and water – the search for life
elsewhere: the Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Dr Ed Stone, presented the latest
findings from NASA’s Mars research program.
Mission to planet Freeze
SAM – the patient robot: staff from Royal North
Shore Hospital demonstrated what to do when
there’s a crisis in the operating theatre and SAM’s
blood pressure has shot up and his pulse is racing.
Sydney Observatory
Skyriders teleport: visitors had the opportunity to
be virtual tourists by taking the Skyriders teleport
on a ride through some of Australia’s most
spectacular landscapes.
Full Moon: Apollo mission photographs of the lunar
landscape: on the closing day of the Museum of
Contemporary Art’s Full Moon exhibition, Sydney
Observatory’s astronomer Mel Hulbert talked about
photographing the Moon from Earth.
Robocow and Toad: visitors watched as Robocow,
a robot built to train rodeo horses, showed off its
moves, followed by Toad the robot climbing the
walls. Both robots were developed by the
University of Southern Queensland.
Lion dance for Chinese New Year: a traditional
lion dance from Chinatown to the Powerhouse
Museum to celebrate the Year of the Snake.
Programs associated with Earth,
spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of
the Choson dynasty
Korean costume and dance: members of the
Australian-Korean community presented a parade
of costumes and traditional dance performances
on Australia Day. Organised by the Ministry of
Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and
the Theophilus Cultural Centre of Korea.
Touch table.
Sydney Observatory
Summer holiday program activity highlights included
twilight children’s viewings, astronomy camp-ins,
champagne supper viewings and storytelling.
Equinox supper viewing: visitors viewed a range
of celestial objects while enjoying a light supper
and champagne.
Tickets to Jupiter: celestial photography by Sydney
Observatory astronomer Dr Paul Payne accompanied
a special performance of music inspired by
astronomy and composed by young Australians.
April 2001
Events
Symposium: ‘Visions of a republic’ and ‘Sydney at
Federation’: speakers investigated French republican
ideas as applied to Australian art, architecture,
design and the built environment. Included a
guided tour of significant Federation sites in
Sydney. Organised in conjunction with the
Historic Houses Trust of NSW.
Wattan National Forum: this forum brought
together people interested in exploring and
documenting the heritage of Arabic-speaking
Australians. Supported by Arab Bank.
Film: Federation - a three-part journey to nationhood:
three films which tell the story of the lengthy
process of political and popular debate which
resulted in the Federation of Australia in 1901.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Zooper zounds!: a tour of the robots in the
Universal machine (renamed Cyberworlds)
exhibition followed by a session using computer
technology to make a story with sound effects.
Astronomy and space day: visitors learned how to
launch a rocket, use the solar barbeque, make a
star wheel and more. Included a fascinating
lecture by John Sarkissian: ‘The dish that ran
away with the Moon’.
Sydney Observatory
Children’s viewings: special children’s viewings were
presented every night during the school holidays.
Champagne supper viewing: visitors viewed the
magnificent southern sky, followed by a light
supper and champagne.
Southern Cross viewing night: visitors looked at
the most famous constellation in the southern sky.
May 2001
Events
Electronica: the Museum presented a series of
special events offering a hands-on look at the
science, technology and history of electronic and
computer music as part of National Science
Week. Visitors heard demonstrations of
instruments from Roland and Yamaha; heard
three-dimensional sound effects created by Lake
Engineering’s high-tech headphones and sound
systems; explored the world’s first electronic
musical instrument, the theremin, with composer
Peter Miller; and interacted with the Soundbeam
– moving their bodies through ultrasonic beams
to make music. Electronica was supported by the
Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
NAISDA 25th anniversary: Indigenous dancers
from around the country performed as part of
celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the
National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development
Association (NAISDA).
Reconciliation Week activities
27 May – 3 June 2001
NAISDA dancers: students from the National
Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association
(NAISDA) presented a program of dance from
their current course.
School holiday activities
Storytelling: visitors joined Pauline McLeod for
Dreaming stories.
The Ozo Bros travelling sideshow and Federation
circus: visitors stepped back in time with this
Aboriginal Dance Theatre Redfern: performances by
students from the Aboriginal Dance Theatre Redfern.
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January 2001
Events
Sydney Observatory
Imagined oceans: visitors enjoyed the music
composed by Karl Jenkins and inspired by the
seas of the Moon, followed by a lunar viewing.
Featured the Western Youth Orchestra and the
Wesley Institute Choir conducted by George Ellis.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Moon supper viewing: visitors viewed the last
quarter of the Moon, then enjoyed a light supper
and champagne.
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Alien open day: visitors dressed as aliens and
launched rockets into space.
Are we alone?: a lecture from Dr Charles
Lineweaver of the University of New South Wales
about the latest discoveries in the scientific
quest for extraterrestrial life.
June 2001
Programs associated with Anne Frank +
Courage to care
Live reading: ‘The diary of Anne Frank’: as a
tribute to Anne Frank on the anniversary of her
birthday, the Museum held a live reading of The
diary of Anne Frank. One hundred and sixty
people including civic leaders and business
leaders, Holocaust survivors, school children and
many others shared in reading the diary from
beginning to end.
Play: And then they came for me: remembering
the world of Anne Frank: beginning in pre-war
Europe, the play was based on the true story of
Auschwitz survivors Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s
stepsister, and Ed Silverberg.
Sunday films and talks: films about Anne Frank,
Holocaust survivors and rescuers; included the
30-minute video, Dear Kitty, about Anne Frank
and the Holocaust in Holland and Europe. Talks
by Holocaust survivors and rescuers.
Winter solstice celebration with total solar eclipse:
visitors enjoyed a live webcast of the first total solar
eclipse this millennium and a celestial viewing
followed by a midnight champagne supper.
6. AWARDS
7th Annual AIMIA (Australian Interactive
Multimedia Industry Association) Best of the Best
website for the 1000 years of the Olympic Games:
treasures of ancient Greece website (award
received for achieving top 10 ranking in the
Education – Reference Category as visited by
Australians on 3–4 September 2000, and
sponsored by Hitwise real-time web intelligence).
7th Annual AIMIA (Australian Interactive
Multimedia Industry Association) Interface Design
of the Year for the 1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient Greece website.
The Museum’s 1000 years of the Olympic Games:
treasures of ancient Greece website was one of
three finalists in the 2000 BAFTA (British
Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive
Entertainment Awards (the other two finalists
were the BBC History Site and BBC’s Walking with
dinosaurs site).
International Society for the History of Technology
Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
2000 for Universal machine: computers and
connections (since renamed Cyberworlds:
computers and connections) awarded at the
2000 Annual Conference in Munich.
Best Tourism Marketing and Promotional Campaign
for Audrey Hepburn: a woman, the style, in the
Tourism Council of Australia 2000 New South Wales
Awards for Excellence in Tourism.
Public Relations Institute of Australia Award for
Excellence in Marketing Communication for the
Audrey Hepburn: a woman, the style exhibition.
Programs associated with Student
Fashion Awards
Top 10 finalist in the category of Event Venues in
the National Business Bulletin 2000 Top 100
conference venues.
Student fashion grand parade: students from
Sydney’s major fashion design schools
showcased their creativity and style.
7. EVALUATION AND AUDIENCE
RESEARCH
Programs associated with Lucien Henry:
visions of a republic
Lectures: Visions for cities: Chicago-based
architectural historian Professor David Van
Zanten examined Baron Haussman’s vision for the
replanning of Paris between 1852 and 1870.
Associate Professor Philip Goad, architectural
history and design lecturer at the University of
Melbourne, discussed late 19th century proposals
for a specifically Australian architectural style
including the work of Lucien Henry. Included a
special viewing of the exhibition.
French study days: visitors listened to French
cabaret songs and watched as illustrators created
artworks inspired by the work of Lucien Henry.
Film: ‘La commune’: explored the events of the
Paris Commune in 1871, directed by Oscar-winning
film-maker Peter Watkins.
Sydney Observatory
Mars open nights: during June 2001, the Earth was
the closest it had been to Mars since 1988. Visitors
were able to view some features on Mars which
cannot normally be seen, including a polar cap.
• The moving tribute to Anne Frank + Courage
to care.
Front-end evaluation studies
A front-end evaluation study was undertaken for
the new permanent exhibition on sustainable
futures, EcoLogic. The front-end evaluation
involved six focus groups of local town planners,
young adults who are environmental activists,
teachers, parents, youth from rural NSW and
culturally active adults. In addition, depth
interviews were undertaken with a range of
potential stakeholders including staff from the
Sustainable Energy Development Authority, the
Department of Land and Water Conservation, the
Department of Education and Training, Institute
for Sustainable Futures, Nature Conservation
Council of NSW, Total Environment Centre, BP
Solarex, Lend Lease and Bishop Austrans.
As part of the front-end evaluation for EcoLogic,
the Museum was a partner in a major research
project involving the University of Technology
Sydney, the Environmental Protection Authority,
the Department of Education and Training,
National Parks and Wildlife Service and
Department of Land and Water Conservation. The
study sought information on the sources of
children’s attitudes to the environment. The
sample included 3,500 students from 70 primary
and secondary schools including students who
speak English as a second language, and
different age, gender, socio-economic,
rural/urban and subcultural groups. The
outcomes of the study will facilitate the
Powerhouse Museum and its partners with
strategic planning in relation to environmental
education.
PROGRAM EVALUATION
Evaluation of the ‘Behind the scenes’
volunteer program
EXHIBITION EVALUATION
This study explored the delivery of programs and
services by the Behind the scenes (BTS)
volunteers to assess the current position and
issues related to the BTS activities to inform
future development of the program.
Summative evaluation studies
Internal client evaluation of catering services
During 2000–2001, summative evaluation
studies were undertaken for major temporary
exhibitions, involving a sample of 200
respondents surveyed during holiday and
non-holiday periods. Other visitor information
such as ticket sales and visitor counts are also
included in the reports and all findings are
compared against the outcomes from previous
exhibition studies. In 2000–2001, evaluations
were undertaken for:
A second survey of staff responses to catering
provision was undertaken.
• the new permanent Indigenous gallery
Bayagul: contemporary Indigenous
communication;
Members Day evaluation
• the suite of exhibitions opened for the
Olympic Games celebrations: 1000 years of
the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient
Greece; Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex
Leicester - notebook of a genius; and Earth,
spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the
Choson Dynasty.
• The popular children’s holiday exhibition, the
LEGO action show; and
External events clients evaluation
The first report of this year-long study was
delivered in November 2000 and the second
report received in June 2001. The survey has
facilitated the Events and Venue Departments to
monitor improvements in customer service and
identify problem issues.
An evaluation of the first annual Members’ Day
Program was undertaken to inform the planning
of future events of this type.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Museums and creativity
This project explored the role that museums can
play in contributing to the development of
creative thinking among design students. John
Falk (author of The museum experience and
Public institutions for personal learning),
The report on this study was published in January
2001 and has been widely distributed. The study
employed both secondary research of relevant
literature and primary research involving focus
groups and a national omnibus survey of 1,100
respondents.
From the study emerge some valuable insights
for the future of museums and their current
positioning within the wider environment of
leisure participation. Paramount is the
increasing pace of life in general and the ways in
which leisure consumers respond to addressing
more demands in less time. Moreover, the trend
to a preference for leisure that is fun,
pleasurable, enjoyable and relaxing may be
developing as an antidote to increased work
pressure and the increased pace of life in
general. The findings from this study have
important implications for museums which
increasingly find themselves struggling to
maintain audiences in competition with an
increasing number of leisure options. How we
continue to value museums and how museums
position themselves effectively may determine
their survival.
The Olympics study: impact of mega and
hallmark events on museums
9. PUBLICATIONS
Publications for sale
The following titles, published in 2000–2001, are
available at the Powerhouse Shop and by mail
order unless otherwise indicated. Those marked
with an asterisk (*) are published under the
Museum’s Powerhouse Publishing imprint and
are available from book stores and other retail
outlets. For information about the Museum’s
many other titles, please telephone Powerhouse
Publishing on 9217 0129.
New titles
1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece
This longitudinal study has been taking place
since September 1999 and will be completed in
September 2001. It is a partnership between the
Powerhouse Museum and the National Maritime
Museum to explore the impact of mega and
hallmark events on museum attendances,
audience profiles and positioning. Depth
interviews with museum directors, museum
marketing managers, festival directors and
festival marketing managers were undertaken
during the qualitative phase. A quantitative
survey of 4,200 visitors to both museum sites will
complete the project.
More than a sporting competition, the ancient
Olympic games were dedicated to the Greek gods.
They continued through 1000 years of evolution,
wars and political change. In ancient times, to
win was everything. The objects featured in this
book have miraculously survived through time.
Together with the essays, they tell us about the
rituals and sports of the ancient games and their
significance within the mythology and society of
ancient Greeks. Authors: Terence Measham, AM,
FRSA; Elisabeth Spathari and Paul Donnelly
Published July 2000, 144pp, over 55 illustrations,
pbk, rrp $32.95
Forums
1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece CD-ROM
The Museum presented the following forums at
the Powerhouse Museum: ‘The visitor - centred
museum’ by Mark O’Neill, Head, Glasgow
Galleries and Museums; and Dr John Falk, Chief
Executive Officer, Institute of Learning
Innovation, Annapolis, Maryland, with Carol Scott
of the Powerhouse Museum, on the outcomes of
the ‘Museums and creativity study’.
Visitor counts
The Museum undertook 20 visitor counts in
various exhibitions during the period.
8. SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION
PROJECTS
1. Virtual Museum
2. Virtual SoundHouse
3. Network operating system upgrade – Netware 5
4. Codex exhibition – acquisition and
configuration of computers
An award-winning digital reconstruction and
audiovisual tour of ancient Olympia, the home of
the Olympic Games. Contains additional
resources for educators and students. Coproduced with Intel Australia, and offered free to
all secondary schools in Australia in 2001.
Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester —
notebook of a genius
The Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci covers
a wide range of his observations and theories on
astronomy, the properties of water, rocks and
fossils, air and celestial light; and provides a
rare insight into the inquiring mind of the
definitive Renaissance artist, scientist and
thinker as well as an exceptional illustration of
the link between art and science and the
creativity of the scientific process.
Authors: Michael Desmond and Carlo Pedretti
Published September 2000, 144pp, over 65
illustrations, pbk, rrp $32.95
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (souvenir guide)
A memento of a visit to the Powerhouse Museum,
its fascinating history, extraordinary building,
diverse collection, exciting exhibitions and much
much more.
Author: Jennifer Blunden
Published September 2000, 80pp, over 140
colour illustrations, pbk, rrp $10.00
Sydney Observatory 2001 sky guide for the Sydney
region and eastern NSW
The celestial equivalent of a street directory, this
guide tells you when and how to find the year’s
most exciting celestial events and the latest
discoveries from space- and earth-based
missions. Author: Dr Nick Lomb
Published November 2000, 112pp, illustrated in
black & white, pbk, rrp $15.00
Leisure and change: implications for museums
in the 21st century
This book is the result of a study conducted by
the Powerhouse Museum and the University of
Technology Sydney, and suggests a turning point
for the future positioning of museums. It reveals
the importance of locating any discussion of
museum participation within the context of wider
leisure choice and highlights the impact of
changes that are affecting the way these choices
are made.
Authors: Rob Lynch, Christine Burton, Carol Scott,
Peter Wilson and Philip Smith
Published January 2001, 90pp, illustrated in
black & white, pbk, rrp $25.95
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Leisure and change: implications for
museums in the 21st century
5. Setting up Migration Heritage Centre website
6. Upgrade of Powerhouse Museum website
7. Replacement of 100 personal computers
8. Upgrade of events management system to
Events Perfect
9. Upgrade of Tours Perfect, the school
bookings system
10. Antivirus software installation – Sophos
11. Development of software for payslips via email
12. Implementation of the fax server
13. Library system server upgrade
14. Records system server upgrade
15. Installation of hardware/software for robotic
telescope
16. Remote access to email via the web
17. Shop system server upgrade
18. Observatory server upgrade
19. Information Technology Centre server
upgrade
20. Implementation of the Image
Management System
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Visions of a republic: the work of Lucien Henry
A history, a biography and an art book, which
publishes for the first time the work of FrenchAustralian artist Lucien Henry. Henry’s major
work, Australian decorative arts: one hundred
studies and designs presents beautiful
watercolours which reveal his vision for a public
art and architecture based on Australian flora
and fauna. Five chapters cover Henry’s life in
Paris, his exile in the South Pacific, his impact on
pre-Federation Sydney, his ambitious project for
the creation of a national identity, his role in
architecture and interior design, and the legacy
of his vision.
Editor: Ann Stephen
Published April 2001, 240 pages, 215
illustrations in colour and black and white, rrp
$45.00 pbk / $70.00 hc
Cyberworlds: computers and connections
Computers are the defining technology of our
time. Over the past 50 years, the impact of
computers on our lives has been enormous. This
booklet explores some of the questions raised by
the Powerhouse Museum exhibition Cyberworlds:
computers and connections. What is a computer?
What can it do? Who developed computers and
why? How do the different cyberworlds in which
we live influence our culture and our values?
Cyberworlds tracks the history of computers from
the earliest computing machines of the 19th
century to the compelling virtual world created by
computers today.
Authors: Judith Matheson with Matthew Connell
Published June 2001, 32pp, 60 illustrations in
colour and black & white, pbk, rrp $12.00
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Prof. Geoffrey Caban (UTS) and Carol Scott (PHM)
implemented the pilot study from 10 August to 24
August 2000 at the Powerhouse Museum and the
University of Technology Sydney. The outcomes of
the study were reported in April 2001.
Titles in production
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Arts of Southeast Asia from the Powerhouse
Museum collection
Looks at the arts of this fascinating region in the
context of the historical and cultural phenomena
shared by these countries and in contrast their
diverse and distinct responses to common
internal and external influences.
Due to be published November 2001, 80pp, over
80 illustrations in colour and black & white, pbk,
rrp $28.95
Observer and observed: a pictorial history of
Sydney Observatory and Observatory Hill
Observatory Hill is a central part of Sydney’s
social and scientific history and few sites rival
the Hill as both subject and object of Sydney
views. Drawn from the Powerhouse’s extensive
photographic and pictorial collection and images
from other institutions and individuals, the book
includes pioneering astronomical photographs
taken from the Observatory, early colonial views
of Sydney, and the work of contemporary artists
and photographers.
Authors: Dr Charles Pickett with Dr Nick Lomb
Due to be published December 2001, 96pp, over
90 illustrations in colour and black & white, pbk,
rrp $32.95
Women with wings: portraits of Australian
women aviators
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Celebrating over 50 years of the Australian
Women Pilots’ Association, which was formed by
pioneer aviator Nancy Bird, this book highlights
the adventures and achievements of women
aviators across Australia. Sponsored by Pip and
Dick Smith.
Authors: Ian Debenham and Sue Stafford
(photographer)
Due to be published January 2002, 80pp, pbk, rrp
$24.95
Authored by the Powerhouse Museum
Powerhouse Museum ‘Costume’ series
Six titles on many and varied aspects of costume
aimed at primary school ages. Author: Helen Whitty
Published July 2000 by Macmillan Education
Australia
Powerhouse Museum ‘Gold rushes’ series
Six titles on many and varied aspects of the
Australian gold rushes aimed at primary school ages.
Author: Dr Kimberley Webber
Published May 2001 by Macmillan Education
Australia
In production
Powerhouse Museum ‘Eco’ series
Six titles on ecologically sustainable development,
looking at how we can work with rather than
against nature, aimed at primary school ages.
Author: Helen Whitty
Due to be published June 2002 by Macmillan
Education Australia
School visit materials
The Museum also regularly produces and updates
publications and visit package kits that contain
teachers exhibition notes and activity sheets.
Powerline magazine
Quarterly magazine of the Powerhouse Members
organisation.
Full colour; issue number 1, December 1987 to
issue number 62, winter 2001.
10. STAFF PUBLICATIONS
The following are in addition to material
published as a normal part of staff commitments,
such as for the Museum Members newsletter,
Powerline, or other Museum publications –
please see Appendix 9.
The Museum also achieved media coverage as
follows in 2000–2001: 1,239 print stories, 276
radio stories, 93 TV stories, 566 listings and 72
items on a variety of websites (arts, tourism, etc).
Barrett, D. Review, ‘A European bazaar?’, by J. A.
Auerbach (1999), The Great Exhibition of 1851: a
nation on display. Yale University Press,
Metascience, Vol. 10, 139–142 (March 2001).
Chan, S. ‘Growing pains in Byron Bay’, in UNESCO
courier, July/August 2000.
Chan, S. Specialist column, Australian personal
computer, Vol 21, No 10, October 2000.
Chan, S. Specialist column, Australian personal
computer, Vol 22, No 1, January 2001.
Cochrane, Dr G. ‘Textile collections: dealing with
documentation’ (with 12 photographs of textiles
from the Museum’s collection), published in
Putting in the colour: contemporary Aboriginal
textiles, published by Jukurrpa Books for Desart.
Cochrane, Dr G. Catalogue essay, ‘Response to
the island’, for Salamanca Arts Centre,
Tasmania.
Connell, M. ‘Computers centre stage’, in Museum
national, August 2000 Vol 9, No 1, Museums
Australia, pp. 12–13.
Czernis-Ryl, E. ‘Brilliant gifts for the Powerhouse
Museum – new glass for the old collection’, The
world of antiques and art, July – December 2001.
Czernis-Ryl, E. ‘The Duke of York baskets’, The
world of antiques and art, December 2000 –
January 2001.
Desmond, M. ‘Walter Barnett’s studio portraiture
and the paparazzi’, Art monthly, April 2001, No.
138, pp. 20–22.
Donnelly, P. ‘1000 years of the Olympic Games:
treasures of ancient Greece’ in The Near Eastern
Archaeology Foundation bulletin, no. 38,
December 2000.
Donnelly, P. ‘Egyptian faience amulets in the
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse
Museum) in Sydney’ Mediterranean archaeology
Vol 12, 1999, pp. 75–88 (published 2000).
Donnelly, P. ‘And the Gods honour him’, in The
world of antiques and art, June to December
2000, pp. 84–86.
Donnelly, P. ‘The exhibition 1000 years of the Olympic
Games returns home’, in Australian Archaeological
Institute in Athens newsletter, No. 14, 2000.
Dougherty, K. ‘In orbit’, Sky and space, July
2000–June 2001.
Eastburn, M. ‘Printmaking in Papua New Guinea’,
Islands in the sun: prints by Indigenous artists
from Australia and the Australasian region,
National Gallery of Australia, 2001 pp. 51–70.
Hicks, M. ‘Bringing out the dead’, Museum
matters (Newsletter of Museums Australia Inc
NSW), 8(2), August 2000, p. 8.
Hoskins, Dr I. ‘Fear and favour’, perceptions of
flora and fauna in Lucien Henry’s Australia’, in
World of antiques and art, January – June 2001.
Kenderdine, S. ‘1000 years of the Olympic games:
treasures from ancient Greece. Digital
reconstruction at the home of the Gods’. Paper for
Museums and the Web Conference, 14–17 March
2001, Seattle, USA. Website <http://www.
archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/kenderine/kend
erdine.html>. Museum Archives and Informatics,
Pittsburg, USA.
Kenderdine, S. ‘1000 years of the Olympic games:
treasures of ancient Greece. Digital
reconstruction at the home of the Gods’, WWW 10,
Tenth International World Wide Web Conference,
Hong Kong, 1–5 May 2001.
Kenderdine, S. ‘1000 years of the Olympic games:
treasures of ancient Greece. The digital
reconstruction of Olympia, 3D Zeus and website’,
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts 2000
Conference, Gifu, Japan. Awarded Best Virtual
World Heritage Paper at the Conference.
Kenderdine, S. (with Ogleby, C., Ristevski, R., &
Da Costa, D.) ‘1000 years of the Olympic games:
treasures of ancient Greece. The digital
reconstruction of Olympia, 3D Zeus and website’,
6th International Conference on Virtual Systems
and Multimedia, Gifu, Japan, October 2000. pp.
104–116, International Society of Virtual Systems
and Multimedia.
Kenderdine, S. (with Ogleby, C., Ristevski, R., &
Da Costa, D.) ‘VROOM (The virtual reconstruction
of Olympia model): academic choices in the
construction and use of an educational model’,
Olympia and the Olympics: Festival and Identity
in the Ancient World (Macquarie University and
Sydney University), 3–6 July 2000.
Lea, M. ‘New Indigenous gallery at the
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney’, International
Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and
Collections Bulletin No. 42, August 2000.
Lea, M. ‘A rough guide to music museums on the
World Wide Web’, Journal of the Australian
Association of Musical Instrument Makers,
Volume XX No.1, 2001.
Lomb, Dr N. ‘Cosmos paragraphs’, The Australian
newspaper, daily July 2000 to June 2001.
Lomb, Dr N. ‘Moon phases calendar 2001’,
Australian geographic.
Lomb, Dr N. Book review, ‘The wandering
astronomer’, The physicist, September/October 2000.
Mahony, P. ‘Powerhouse Museum SoundHouse’,
Music forum, June–July 2001, Vol 7. No 5.
Peck, R. Book, NSW Government Printers and
Inspectors of Stamps, self-published, 2001.
Pickett, C. ‘Visions of Sydney’, Architecture
bulletin, March/April 2001.
Pickett, C. ‘What a relief! – the Sydney 2000
opening ceremony’, Art monthly Australia,
November 2000.
Pickett, C. ‘The puzzle of suburban heritage: fibro
houses and the modern vernacular’, in Fibro
house: Opera House. Conserving mid-twentieth
century heritage, Sheridan Burke (ed.), Historic
Houses Trust of NSW, 2000.
Scott, C. (with Caban, G. and Swieca, R.) ‘Design
learning in museum settings: towards a strategy
for enhancing creative learning among design
students’, published in two refereed journals:
Open museum journal, Vol 2, 2000 and Form/work
(an interdisciplinary journal of design and the
built environment), Number 5, October 2000.
Scott, C. ‘Heritage marketing in the not-for-profit
sector: the case for branding’ in Archaeological
displays and the public, ed. Paulette McManus,
Archetype Publications, London, 2000.
Scott, C. ‘New horizons: audience research in art
galleries’, in Gallery, no. 9, April 2001.
Scott, C. (with Burton, C. and Kelly, L.) ‘Museums
and leisure’, 2001 Museums Australia National
Conference, Canberra.
Scott, C. (with Dingle, M.) ‘Who’s the winner? The
impact of the Olympics on local museums’, 2001
Museums Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Scott, C. (with Kelly, L., Gordon, P. and Sullivan,
T.) ‘Previous possessions, new obligations policy
review’, 2001 Museums Australia National
Conference, Canberra.
Scott, C. ‘Inputs/outputs: what we need to put
into evaluation and audience research to get the
best outcome’, presented during the Evaluation
and Visitor Research Special Interest Group Day
at the 2001 Museums Australia National
Conference, Canberra.
Scott, C. ‘Advocating museums: museums and
long-term contribution to social value’, presented
during the Evaluation and Visitor Research
Special Interest Group Day at the 2001 Museums
Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Scott, C. ‘What can evaluation and audience
research do?: parameters and limits’, presented
during the Evaluation and Visitor Research
Special Interest Group Day at the 2001 Museums
Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Shore, Dr J. ‘The Museum’s recent and upcoming
science and technology activities’ for FACETS
(the Science and Technology Awareness Program
newsletter) and The communicator (the
Australian Science Communicators newsletter).
Shore, Dr J. ‘The “shake your booty” approach to
interpreting the world of electronic and computer
music, otherwise known as, Electronica – the
science, technology and history of electronic and
computer music’, 2001 Museums Australia
National Conference, Canberra.
Stephen, A. ‘Lucien Henry’, The world of antiques
and art (incorporating The antique collector).
Sumner, C. ‘Embroidery for the bed chamber’, The
world of antiques and art, December 2000 –
January 2001.
Sumner, C. ‘Splendid silks: the ikats of Central Asia’,
TAASA review, Volume 9 No. 3, September 2000.
Sumner, C. ‘Albong and sawal: Bilaan woman’s
abaca shirt and Bilaan man’s trousers’, TAASA
Review, March 2001.
Clegg, G. ‘Aspects of machinery preservation’
workshop, Dubbo, NSW.
Sumption, K. Refereed conference proceedings,
‘Beyond museum walls – a critical analysis of
emerging approaches to museum web-based
education’, Museums and the Web Conference,
Seattle, USA.
Cochrane, Dr G. ‘Contemporary Australian crafts
and design’, to NSW Society of Arts and Crafts.
Sumption, K. ‘Hall of mirrors: the dilemmas of
presenting information technology culture
through information technology interactives and
artefacts’, Archives and museum informatics,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.
Van de Ven, A. ‘Florence Broadhurst 1899–1977’,
in Parallel developments exhibition, London
Printworks Trust.
Watson, A. ‘Artes Studios: pioneering good
design’, Furniture History Society of Australasia
Newsletter, XVII, February 2001.
Watson, A. ‘The Clements collector’s cabinets’,
The world of antiques and art, December 2000 –
January 2001.
Watson, A. ‘Cabinets of curiosities’, Furniture
History Society newsletter, November 2000.
Watson, A. Book review, The art movement in
Australia: design, taste and society 1875–1900,
by Andrew Montana, Miegunyah Press,
Melbourne, in The world of antiques and art,
December 2000 – January 2001.
11. STAFF PRESENTATIONS AND
RELATED ACTIVITIES
The following took place in Sydney unless
otherwise indicated. For reasons of space, these
do not include the many lectures and
presentations made at the Powerhouse Museum
or Sydney Observatory. Museum staff also
contributed significantly to the following media
coverage achieved by the Museum in the year:
1,239 print stories, 276 radio stories, 93
television stories, 566 listings, 72 entries on
websites.
Adendorff, L. ‘Australian Museums On Line
services for small and regional museums’, Remote
and Regional Museums Conference, Griffith.
Clegg, G. ‘Preservation of historic machinery’, for
National Trust, Saumarez Homestead, Armidale, NSW.
Cochrane, Dr G. ‘Visible: invisible: behind the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games’, Graduation
address, Arts, Fine Arts and Music graduates,
University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Connell, M. Faraday Lecture 2001, ‘Beyond the
square window’; among a panel of experts
answering questions about the future of
television for the broadcast of the 2001 Faraday
Lecture by SBS Television.
Connell, M. ‘Cyberworlds: computers and
connections’, Arts and Computing undergraduates
studying Informatics, University of Sydney.
Connell, M. ‘Exhibiting new technology – The
wedge’ at A Bit Flash: What’s So New About New
Technology? – New Media in Museums Seminar,
Museums and Galleries Association with the
Museum of Sydney.
Connell, M. ‘The crisis of machine readable
records’, for an Australian Registrars Committee
professional development seminar.
Coombes, J. (with Palmer, B., Hendrikson, T. and
Bower, R.) ‘Museum documentation’, Sydney
University Museum Studies students.
Cox, P. The development of the Real wild child
CD-ROM, University of Technology Sydney.
Czernis-Ryl, E. ‘Doulton ceramics at the
Powerhouse Museum’, Australian Federation
Dinner, Hurstville Rotary Club.
Czernis-Ryl, E. ‘Melbourne Exhibition vases and
museum mosaic’, 2001 Wedgwood Forum,
Wedgwood Society of NSW.
Davidson, S. ‘Documentation and collection
management’, Museums Australia Health and
Medicine Special Interest Group.
Desmond, M. ‘Architecture and installation art’,
Department of Architecture, University of NSW.
Desmond, M. ‘Funny strange, funny ha-ha:
comics and art’, Art Gallery of NSW.
Desmond, M. ‘Leonardo and the Codex Leicester’,
Art Gallery of NSW members.
Adendorff, L. ‘Joining the dots: museum trails
and online tourism’, 2001 Museums Australia
National Conference, Canberra.
Donkin, S. ‘Digital imaging for museums’, 2001
Museums Australia Conference, Canberra.
Bannon, G. ‘Marketing your museum’, Museums
and Galleries Foundation, Eden, NSW.
Barrett, D. ‘Scientific services on the Snowy
Mountains Scheme’, Australian Science History
Club, The Australian Museum.
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Czernis-Ryl E. ‘Developing a decorative arts
collection’, Powerhouse Study Day, ADFAS
(Kuring-gai).
Adendorff, L. ‘Online cultural tourist trails’,
National Regional Galleries Summit, Mildura.
Adendorff, L. ‘New ways with old things: virtual
exhibitions’ (panel presentation), OzeCulture
Conference, Melbourne.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Roberts, C. Essay entry on Hou Bo in Biographical
dictionary of Chinese women, eds Lily Xiao Hong
Lee, volume 11: the twentieth century, M. E.
Sharpe, 2001.
Sumner, C. Book review, The art movement in
Australia: design, taste and society 1875–1900
by Andrew Montana, in Australian and New
Zealand journal of art, Volume 2 No. 1, 2001.
Donnelly, P. ‘The making of 1000 years of the
Olympic Games’, Department of Archaeology,
University of Sydney.
Donnelly, P. ‘1000 years of the Olympic Games’,
(delivered twice) to TAMS (Australian Museum)
members and to Art Gallery of NSW members.
Dougherty, K. ‘STS-92 space shuttle launch’,
Newcastle Space Frontier Society.
Dougherty, K. ‘What’s happening in space’,
Sydney Space Association.
Chidiac, A. ‘Cultural diversity’, 2001 Museums
Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Dougherty, K. ‘The Kennedy Space Centre and
space shuttle processing’ Double Bay Rotary Club.
Chidiac, A. ‘The Wattan project’, 2001 Lebanese
Diaspora Conference, Beirut.
Dougherty, K. ‘A space curator’s career’,
Blacktown Lions Club.
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Roberts, C. ‘Fishes and dragons: Ah Xian’s China,
China series’, Art Asia-Pacific, Issue 26, 2000.
Eastburn, M. ‘Printmaking in Papua New Guinea
(1969–1985)’, Fourth Australian Print Symposium:
Reproduction in the Australasian Region,
National Gallery of Australia.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Fewster, Dr K, AM. ‘The modern museum director’,
students of the Honours program who scored
high in the HSC, School of Politics and
International Relations, the University of New
South Wales.
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Fewster, Dr K, AM. ‘60th Anniversary
commemorating Dunera’, Australian National
Maritime Museum.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. Occasional Address, Spring
2000 Graduation Ceremony, University of
Technology Sydney.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. Official opening of Anne Frank
– a history for today, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount
Gambier, South Australia.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. Speech, Councillors, Australian
Business Arts Foundation.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. Occasional Address, 2001
Autumn Graduation Ceremony, University of
Western Sydney.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. ‘The Museum and Eveleigh’, at
the opening of the Eveleigh Community Weekend
(included display of Museum transport and
steam-powered exhibits).
Hicks, M. ‘Specialist museums and national
identity – who cares?’, 2001 Museums Australia
National Conference, Canberra.
Hicks, M. ‘Social aspects in the history of
contraception’, University of Sydney.
Lea, M. (with Shore, Dr J. and Mahony P.)
‘Electronica’, 2001 Museums Australia National
Conference, Canberra.
Lomb, Dr N. ‘Sydney Observatory: past, present
and future’, Astrolunch, Astrophysics Department,
University of NSW.
Mason, I. ‘The social webs that must be wove:
information management, museums and the
knowledge industry’, Museums Documentation
Association Conference, Newcastle, UK.
Pickett, C. ‘Lucien Henry and Sydney architecture’,
School of Architecture, University of Sydney.
Pickett, C. ‘The Sydney fibro frontier’, Faculty of the
Built Environment, University of New South Wales.
Roberts, C. ‘Korean design: the Choson dynasty
and its contemporary relevance’, Design
department, University of Technology Sydney.
Shepherd, R. Opened the graduating exhibition of
Angharad Rixon, Masters Student, Creative Arts
Department, University of Wollongong.
Shore, Dr J. ‘Dead bodies on show: from curiosity
cabinets to mass market exhibitions’ and
‘Nucular or nuclear?: a discussion about
communicating science to the public’, ACPSEM
(Australasian College of Physical Scientists and
Engineers in Medicine) (Sydney branch) seminar,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
Shore, Dr J. ‘Young scientist 2000 in Moree’,
Northern Regional Library, Moree, NSW.
Stephen, A. ‘Visions of a republic’, 2001
Museums Australia Conference, Canberra.
Stephen, A. Christmas exhibition opening,
‘French visions in the Pacific’, Alliance Francaise.
Stephen, A. ‘Self portrait as a young artist’, Art
Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual
Conference, Brisbane.
Stephen, A. ‘Lucien Henry’, Art History students,
University of Sydney.
Stephen, A. ‘Researching Lucien Henry’,
Australiana Society.
Sumner, C. ‘Quilts, time and perspective’, Quilt
show 2001: Australia advances forging ahead
exhibition opening.
Sumner, C. ‘Cataloguing guidelines’, UNESCO
International Cataloguing Standards Workshop,
Almaty, Kazakstan.
Sumner, C. ‘Data standards for collection
information systems’, UNESCO International
Cataloguing Standards Workshop, Almaty,
Kazakstan.
Sumner, C. ‘The transition from textual to
computerised collection information systems’,
UNESCO International Cataloguing Standards
Workshop, Almaty, Kazakstan.
Sumner, C. ‘Tahitian tapa cloth tiputa
(provenanced to Governor Lachlan Macquarie)’,
Textile Study Group of The Asian Arts Society of
Australia.
Sumption, K. ‘Beyond the museum’s walls: a
critical analysis of emerging approaches to
museum web-based education’, OZeCulture
Conference 2001, Melbourne.
Sumption, K. ‘A critical analysis of current and
future trends in cultural portal management and
development: a case study of Australian
Museums On Line’, OZeCulture Conference 2001,
Melbourne.
Sumption, K. ‘Beyond the garden walls: the
challenges of developing effective botanic
garden websites’, Gardens 2001: Public Gardens
in the 21st Century Conference, Council of Heads
of Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
Sumption, K. ‘An examination of the challenges
and opportunities for maritime museums on the
world wide web’, Annual Australian Maritime
Museum Association Conference.
Vytrhlik, Dr J. ‘The Powerhouse Museum and the
arts community: policies, initiatives and
operations’, Bachelor of Creative Arts students,
Macquarie University.
Watson, A. ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and the Griffins’, as
part of the centre for Continuing Education’s
Decorative Arts lecture series, University of Sydney.
Webber, K. ‘International exhibitions and the
museum movement’, University of Sydney.
Webber, K. (with Sear, M.) ‘Collaborating with
community museums’, Museums Australia
Annual Conference, Canberra.
Yoxall, H. ‘The scientific resources in the Museum
Archives’, postgraduate History and Philosophy of
Science students, University of Sydney.
Yoxall, H. ‘Archival management’, Managing
Historical Documents certificate course students,
University of New South Wales.
12. STAFF PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENTS
AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Bulkeley, J. Member, Arts Portfolio Human
Resources Network.
Chan, S. Board Member, Music NSW, from
December 2000.
Chan, S. National Coordinator, National
Independent Electronic Labels Conference,
October 2000.
Chidiac, A. Winner, Arts Category, Australian
Arabic Communities Council, Australian Arabic
Women’s Awards, 2000.
Clegg, G. Examiner, export applications for
engineering and agricultural objects, Protection
of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986, National
Cultural Heritage Committee, Department of
Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts, Canberra.
Cochrane, Dr G. Member, Faculty of Arts Advisory
Committee, University of Southern Queensland.
Coombes, J. Vice-president, Australian Registrars
Committee.
Dawes, S. Vice-president (NSW), Australian
Federation of Friends of Museums; and
committee member of Museums Australia Special
Interest Group for Members and Volunteers.
Donnelly, P. Member of the Vice-Chancellors
Advisory Committee to the Nicholson Museum,
University of Sydney.
Donnelly, P. Appointed Powerhouse representative
of the Council of the Australian Archaeological
Institute in Athens, University of Sydney.
Dougherty, K. Secretary, Committee on the History of
Astronautics, International Academy of Astronautics.
Dougherty, K. Member, Committee on Space and
Education, International Astronautical Federation.
Dougherty, K. Australian representative, Space
Week International Association.
Watson, A. ‘From Paris to Parramatta: the
classical influence in early 19th century
furniture’, Australian Academy of Decorative Arts.
Dougherty, K. Awarded the Australian Space
Pioneer Award for 2000 from the National Space
Society of Australia.
Watson, A. ‘20th century design’, Lawson’s Art
and Antiques Appreciation Course, Sydney.
Dougherty, K. Member, International Planning
Committee, 52nd International Astronautical
Congress, Toulouse, France.
Watson, A. ‘Arts and Crafts and the Technological
Museum’, Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW.
Watson, A. ‘Rusconi and Baker: men of marble’,
Australiana Society Before Federation
Conference, Government House, Sydney.
Watson, A. ‘Celebrating the Eames’, City
Exhibition Space, Customs House, Sydney.
Webber, K. ‘Developing Births of a nation: women,
childbirth and Federation in the Central West’,
Golden Memories Museum, Millthorpe.
Dwyer, J. Member, Australian Human Resources
Institute.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. Awarded the honour of Member
of the Order of Australia in the General Division
(appointed June 2001). Citation: For services to
museum administration and to the preservation
of maritime history.
Fewster, Dr K, AM. President, Darling Harbour
Business Association.
Fredkin, A. Member, NSW MIMS User Group,
Human Resources Stream.
Sanders, J. Member, National Cultural Heritage
Committee, Department of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts.
Gardner, R. Member, Visitor Services
Occupational Health and Safety Group.
Grant, A. Honorary board member of 3801
Limited, the heritage steam train operator.
Havlicek, I. Member of the arts portfolio group
developing standardised performance indicators
as part of the Service Efforts and Accomplishments
initiative of the Council on the Cost and Quality of
Government.
Hicks, M. Member, Health Heritage Preservation
Council of the South East Sydney Area Health Service.
Hicks, M. Honorary secretary and newsletter
editor, Health and Medicine Museums Special
Interest Group of Museums Australia Inc.
Hoskins, Dr I. Appointed to represent the Museum
on the Historical Archaeology Committee of the
Council of Australian Museum Directors.
Jones, G. Judge for the annual Hobart Art Prize in
Fashion and New Media.
Kirkland, J. Committee member, Public Sector
Risk Management Association.
Landsbergen, M. Member, Executive Committee,
NSW MIMS User Group.
Sanders, J. Member, New South Wales Centenary of
Federation Committee (archiving, cataloguing and
preservation of historical materials grants section).
Sanders, J. Board Member, Object: Australian
Centre for Craft and Design.
Scott, C. Elected President of Museums Australia
for a two-year term.
Scott, C. Invited to evaluate the redeveloped
Auckland War Memorial Museum and train staff
in the process of exhibition evaluation and
audience research; also prepared the brief for the
project and wrote the final report on the first
visitor study that the museum has undertaken.
Scott, C. Invited to act as an advisor to the British
Council in its evaluation of a range of programs.
Scott, C. Asked to work with the NSW Ministry for
the Arts to further the development of service
efforts and accomplishments within the context of
a new framework outlined by the Council on the
Cost and Quality of Government (COCQOG) (in
association with Lynda Kelly, Australian Museum).
Landsbergen, M. Member, Arts Portfolio Shared
Services Review Committee.
Scott, C. Provided a report to the National
Museum of Australia on culturally active adults
as a key audience sector who attend museums.
Landsbergen, M. Member, Sydney Sky Theatre
Development Committee.
Shore, Dr J. Chair of the NSW co-ordinating
committee for National Science Week.
Lea, M. Appointed as an Advisory Member of the
Executive Board of the International Committee
of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections,
a specialist committee of the International
Council of Museums.
Shore, Dr J. Chair of the National Science Week
2001 grants committee of the Science and
Technology Awareness Program.
Lomb, Dr N. Vice-president of the Sydney Outdoor
Lighting Improvement Society Inc.
Shore, Dr J. Committee member of the Australian
Science Communicators (NSW) Science in the
Pub program.
Lomb, Dr N. Senior vice-president of the NSW
Branch of the British Astronomical Association
Inc.
Lomb, Dr N. Member of the National Organising
Committee for the International Astronomical
Union General Assembly to be held at Darling
Harbour in July 2003.
Lomb, Dr N. Chair of the Associated Promotional
Events Subcommittee of the National Organising
Committee for the 2003 General Assembly of the
International Astronomical Union.
Lomb, Dr N. Chair of the Education Subcommittee
of the Astronomical Society of Australia, the
society for Australian professional astronomers.
Miller, S. Board member, Museums and Galleries
Foundation.
Miller, S. Committee Chair, Museums and
Galleries Foundation Programs Committee.
Miller, S. Member, Museums and Galleries
Foundation Multicultural Committee.
Shore, Dr J. Committee member of the Sydney Arts
Management Advisory Group.
Shore, Dr J. Member of the organising committee
for the Australian Science Communicators
National Conference to be held at the Powerhouse
in September 2001, and chairperson of the
program development sub-committee.
Sumner, C. Guest editor, ‘Central Asia’ edition,
TAASA review, Volume 9 No. 3, September 2000.
Sumner, C. Member of the organising committee for
the regional International Conference on Oriental
Carpets to be held in Sydney in September 2001.
Sumption, K. Board Member (Research),
International Children’s Art Foundation,
Washington D.C.
Sumption, K. Member, International Advisory
Executive, PADI group (Preserving Access to
Digital Information).
Sumption, K. Member, Program Committee,
Museums and the Web, Seattle, Washington.
Renew, R. Member of the Heritage Advisory
Committee to Ryde City Council.
Sumption, K. Member, Editorial Advisory
Committee, Museum National.
Renew, R. Member of the planning committee for
the Eco-Technology Exhibition Centre at the
University of Wollongong.
Swieca, R. Member, Sydney Design Week Committee.
Swieca, R. Convenor, Gay and Lesbian Alliance of
Museums Australia (GLAMA) until November 2000.
Swieca, R. National Secretary, Museums
Australia, until November 2000.
Swieca, R. Co-convenor, Museums and
Indigenous Peoples Standing Committee of
Museums Australia, until November 2000.
Swieca, R. Board member, International Museum
Theatre Alliance (Museum of Science, Boston,
MA, USA).
Swieca, R. Advisory Board Member, International
Gay and Lesbian Museum (Los Angeles, CA, USA).
Swieca, R. Member, Performance Advisory Committee,
National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Vytrhlik, Dr J. Editorial Board, Open Museum
Journal, AMOL.
Watson, A. Member, the Australiana Society.
Watson, A. Member, the Furniture History Society.
Watson, A. Member, the Walter Burley Griffin Society.
Webber, K. Invited by the NSW Heritage Office to
join a working group on electricity in rural New
South Wales.
Workman, T. Treasurer, Museum Shops
Association of Australia.
13. STAFF PROFESSIONAL
TRAVEL
Geoff Bannon, Manager, Media and Marketing
28 March – 5 April 2001
New Zealand
To represent the Museum at the Oz Talk
Tradeshow in Auckland.
Sebastian Chan, Systems Officer
3–15 March 2001
California, USA
To provide the technical support for the set-up
and presentation of the website and virtual
reconstruction of Olympia at the Association for
Computing Machinery’s ACM1: Beyond
Cyberspace Conference, in San Jose, and to
liaise with the music industry for the
Soundbyte.org Project.
Alissar Chidiac, Project Officer, Wattan Project
25 June – 14 July 2001
Lebanon
To present a paper at the Lebanese Diaspora
Conference and establish contacts to build
future project exchanges.
Judith Coombes, Registrar
25 November – 4 December 2000
Athens, Greece
To return courier objects loaned for the 1000
years of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece exhibition.
Matthew Connell, Curator, Information
Technology
16 August – 2 September 2000
Europe and UK
To attend the International Society for the History
of Technology 2000 Annual Conference to accept
on behalf of the Museum the Dibner Award for
Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2000 for the
exhibition, Universal machine: computers and
connections (since renamed Cyberworlds:
computers and connections), and to seek loan
objects for the exhibition.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Roberts, C. Member, National Cultural Heritage
Committee, Department of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts.
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Fewster, Dr K, AM. Elected Fellow of the Royal
Society for the encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures & Commerce.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Basil Dewhurst, Technical Producer, AMOL
24 September – 1 October 2000
Washington, USA
To attend the Electronic Book 2000 Conference,
an annual conference of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (USA) to examine
the current state of the electronic book industry
with a particular focus on technical
developments, business models and digital
rights management in electronic publishing.
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Basil Dewhurst, Technical Producer, AMOL
10–22 October 2000
Denmark, UK, Canada and USA
To present a paper on current electronic book
technology at the Consortium for the
Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)
Working Group meeting in Denmark and to
research issues regarding Discovernet, AMOL’s
Education Gateway.
Basil Dewhurst, Technical Producer, AMOL
24–31 January 2001
USA
To represent the Australian Museums on Line
(AMOL) project at the Consortium for the
Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)
Working Group meeting and to meet with
members of the Getty Standards Program at the
Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. AMOL
involvement in the Open Archive initiative (OAi)
project and CIMI OAi testbed was discussed.
Also attended the CIMI Forum event which
focused on the new dot-museum Top Level
Domain (TLD) and its implications for the
international museum sector.
Basil Dewhurst, Technical Producer, AMOL
20–27 June 2001
USA
To represent Australian Museums On Line
(AMOL) at the Consortium for the Interchange of
Museum Information (CIMI) Working Group
meeting. AMOL’s involvement in CIMI’s new
Collection Description project was discussed as
well as continued involvement in the CIMI Open
Archive Initiative (OAi) testbed.
Julie Donaldson, Manager, Print Media and
Powerhouse Publishing
4–10 February 2001
Hong Kong
To conduct press check at printers for Visions of
a republic: the work of Lucien Henry publication.
Paul Donnelly, Curator, Historical Decorative Arts
and Design
22 January – 23 February 2001
Jordan
To participate on an archaeological excavation
of a Bronze Age temple dating to 1700–800BC
in Pella, Jordan.
Kerrie Dougherty, Curator, Space Technology
3–28 October 2000
USA
To inspect exhibitions of interest to the
Powerhouse Museum as part of the
refurbishment of the Space exhibition, and to
negotiate for new exhibits and loans for the
Powerhouse and for travelling exhibitions.
Myfanwy Eaves, Assistant Registrar
2–13 February 2001
Korea
To act as return courier (to Seoul) for some of
the objects loaned for Earth, spirit, fire: Korean
masterpieces of the Choson dynasty exhibition.
Kevin Fewster, AM, Director
21–29 November 2000
Netherlands
To develop the Anne Frank exhibition and
develop links with cultural institutions and
professionals in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden
and Eindhoven for future collaborations.
Kevin Fewster, AM, Director
2–9 June 2001
UK
To attend the memorial service for Sir Richard
Foster, Director of the National Museums and
Galleries on Merseyside (Liverpool), as the
official representative of the International
Congress of Maritime Museums and to conduct
meetings with colleagues at relevant British
museums.
Frances Fitzpatrick, Conservator
28 October – 6 November 2000
Noumea, New Caledonia
Attend Pacific Island Museums Association
Conservation meeting.
Megan Hicks, Curator, Sciences
10 October – 3 November 2000
USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands
To undertake a research tour of institutions to
inform the development of a Powerhouse
exhibition about issues in public health, working
title: Risk, scheduled for the Powerhouse in 2001.
Geraldine Hunt, Assistant Conservator
1–13 February 2001
Korea
To act as return courier (to Seoul) for some of
the objects loaned for Earth, spirit, fire: Korean
masterpieces of the Choson dynasty exhibition.
Megan Jordan-Jones, Assistant Conservator
28 January – 6 February 2001
New Zealand
To undertake a course in Wellington on the
conservation of gilded wooden objects.
Sarah Kenderdine, Special Projects Coordinator,
Knowledge and Information Management
1 August – 28 September 2000
Wellington, NZ
To conduct research and presentations for the
New Zealand Museums On Line (NZMOL)
consultancy.
Sarah Kenderdine, Special Projects, Knowledge
and Information Management
2–8 October 2000
Japan
To present papers at the Visual Systems and
Multimedia Conference 2000 in Nagoya and at
the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
Conference in Gifu.
Sarah Kenderdine, Special Projects, Knowledge
and Information Management
28 October – 10 November 2000
Wellington, New Zealand
To complete the report for the New Zealand
Museums On Line (NZMOL) project.
Sarah Kenderdine, Special Projects, Knowledge
and Information Management
2–20 March 2001
USA
To present papers at the Association for
Computing Machinery’s ACM1: Beyond
Cyberspace Conference, in San Jose, and at the
Museums and the Web Conference in Seattle.
Ingrid Mason, Librarian
30 August – 12 September 2000
London, Newcastle, UK
To present a paper at the Museums
Documentation Association Conference.
Christina Sumner, Senior Curator (Acting),
Historical Decorative Arts and Design
3–17 March 2001
Kazakstan and Uzbekistan
To conduct a training workshop in Kazakstan in
international norms and standards of
cataloguing museum objects. This forms part of
a project to complete the pilot stage of
UNESCO’s HeritageNet. To meet in Uzbekistan
with museum staff and government authorities
to continue negotiations for an exhibition of
Central Asian ceramics and textiles proposed for
the Museum in 2004.
Kevin Sumption, Project Manager, AMOL
4–10 March 2001
Kazakhstan
To conduct workshops regarding cataloguing
and digitisation standards, to help Central
Asian museums build a web-based heritage
website to highlight the region’s collections.
This forms part of a contract to complete the
pilot stage of UNESCO’s HeritageNet project.
Kevin Sumption, Project Manager, AMOL
11–19 March 2001
Seattle and Boston, USA
To present a paper and to judge the best of the
web competition at the annual Museums and
the Web Conference in Seattle, and to look at
artificial life temporary exhibitions in Boston.
Karen Vesk, Publications Editor
29 October – 2 November 2000
Christchurch, NZ
To represent the Museum at the International
Council of Museums (ICOM) Committee for
Education and Cultural Action Conference,
‘Cultures as Commodity’.
Carey Ward, Conservator
20 November – 2 December 2000
Athens, Greece
To return courier objects loaned for the 1000
years of the Olympic Games: treasures of
ancient Greece exhibition.
Carey Ward, Conservator
11–18 February 2001
New Zealand
To attend the Making and Adapting of Handtools
Workshop at Te Papa in Wellington.
14. TRUSTEES
The members of the Trust, their current
responsibilities, and the number of meetings
attended in the period, the number they were
eligible to attend, and the number for which they
were given leave are listed below. There were nine
meetings of the Trust during the year.
Mr Marco Belgiorno-Zegna, AM,
B.Ec., Dip.Eng.(Dist), FIEAust, FCPA
Terms: 1.1.97 – 31.12.99 (appointed President
July 1998); 1.1.00 – 31.12.02.
Director, Centre for Independent Studies; Cav.
Ufficiale nell Ordine ‘Al Merito della Repubblica
Professor Ron Johnston, BSc, PhD, FTSE
Terms: 1.1.96 – 31.12.98; 1.1.99 – 31.12.01.
Executive Director, the Australian Centre for
Innovation and International Competitiveness at
the University of Sydney. Member, NSW
Innovation Council.
Meetings: attended – 6; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 3; absent – 0.
Janet McDonald, AO
Terms: 17.2.95 – 31.12.97; 1.1.98 – 31.12.00;
1.1.01 – 31.12.03.
Director, National Breast Cancer Centre; Trustee,
Centenary Institute.
Meetings: attended – 7; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 2; absent – 0.
Dr Nicholas G. Pappas,
MA (Syd), LLB (NSW), PhD (Syd).
Terms: 22.2.99 – 31.12.01.
Principal, Nicholas G. Pappas & Company,
Lawyers. Honorary Legal Adviser, Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of Australia; Secretary, First GreekAustralian Museum Foundation; Director,
Carnivale Ltd; Director, Laiki Bank (Australia)
Limited; President, The Castellorizian Club Ltd;
Member, Council of the Australian
Archaeological Institute at Athens.
Meetings: attended – 9; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 0; absent – 0.
Dr Gene Sherman, MA (Hons), PhD
Terms: 17.2.95 – 31.12.97; 1.1.98 – 31.12.00;
1.1.01 – 31.12.03.
Director, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
Trustee, Bundanon Trust; Board Member, National
Gallery of Australia Foundation; Vice-President,
Power Institute Council (University of Sydney);
Member, International Council of the Asia Society,
New York; Member, Advisory Board of the Asia
Society, Australasia Centre; Patron, NSW Friends
of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
Meetings: attended – 3; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 6; absent – 0.
Mr Anthony Sukari
Terms: 1.1.01 – 31.12.01.
Executive Chairman, Gateway Pharmaceuticals.
Chairperson, Migrant Network Services (Northern
Sydney) Ltd; Trustee, NSW Casino Community
Benefit Fund.
Meetings: attended – 5; eligible to attend – 5;
leave of absence given – 0; absent – 0.
Dr Anne Summers, AO
Terms: 1.1.00 – 31.12.02.
Author, editor, journalist. Chairperson,
Greenpeace International.
Meetings: attended – 6; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 3; absent – 0.
At 30 June 2001, the Museum had the following
Trust Standing Committee:
• provides special exhibition space for
communities to present their migration and
settlement experiences
• conducts public programs that support and
complement the exhibitions and collection
• frequently offers events which are presented
by people from culturally diverse
communities
• provides facilities for events and functions
• provides research assistance and advice
• provides education programs for schools,
TAFE and tertiary institutions
Finance and Resources
Our commitment to our customers
Members:
Mr Marco Belgiorno-Zegna, AM, President (Chair)
Mr Mark Johnson, Trustee
Mr Anthony Sukari, Trustee
The Museum is committed to continuous
improvement in its quality of service. We regularly
evaluate our exhibitions, programs and services.
15. TRUST STANDING COMMITTEES
Staff representation:
Dr Kevin Fewster, Director
Mr Michael Landsbergen, Associate Director,
Corporate Services (Secretary)
Mr John Kirkland, Manager, Finance
In 2000 the Trust also trialled a Marketing and
Commercial Operations Committee and a
Collections, Exhibitions, Museum Services and
Corporate Development Committee. Trust decided
not to retain these committees in 2001.
The Museum also has inter-departmental and
non-inter-departmental committees which deal
with areas such as:
• Exhibitions program review
• Human resources management
• Operational and strategic issues of the
Museum (Senior Management Group)
• Public programs review
• Risk management
• Staffing issues (Museum Consultative
Committee comprised of management and
union representatives)
16. GUARANTEE OF SERVICE
The Museum’s Guarantee of Service is available
to the public on request.
Who we are
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences is a
public Museum operated by the State
Government for the people of New South Wales.
The Museum was established in 1879 and in its
current form is comprised of the Powerhouse
Museum and Sydney Observatory.
Our goal is
• to be a dynamic, innovative and enjoyable
museum for all Australian people
• to promote awareness and understanding of the
past, present and future of Australian society
• to research, acquire, conserve and present
material in the fields of science, technology,
industry, design, decorative arts and social
history
• to reflect Australian cultural diversity
• to provide a high level of service.
What we do
The Museum:
• develops and manages the collection of
objects in its care to present exhibitions of
interest to the widest possible audience
Our service standards
When you visit the Museum you will find:
• friendly, responsive and efficient staff
• well-maintained exhibitions and buildings
• a commitment to caring for objects in the
collection and on loan to the Museum
• your inquiries will be answered promptly and
courteously by staff who will provide
information that is accurate and appropriate
• a high standard of safety and security
• there are appropriate facilities (rest areas,
cafes, toilets, baby changeroom) for you to use
• we provide appropriate access and services
for those with special needs (eg people with
disabilities and those with a language
background other than English)
• signage and information brochures are
helpful and easy to understand
• printed information about Museum events in
plain English.
Special services
• we offer guided tours in community
languages, including sign language, on a
booked basis (minimum two weeks notice).
These tours may be booked by phoning
(02) 9217 0222.
• if you wish to receive an update on our
exhibitions and events, please contact us at
our address or phone (02) 9217 0322 to be
placed on our mailing list.
• if you wish to comment on services for people
with a language background other than
English, please phone (02) 9217 0329 or
fax (02) 9217 0441.
• if you wish to comment on services for
Aboriginal Australians please phone (02)
9217 0493 or fax (02) 9217 0441.
• the first Saturday of every month is a free
entry day to the Museum.
What to do if you have a suggestion
or complaint
We welcome your comments and any suggestions
you may have for improving our services. If you
are visiting the Museum and have any comments,
please talk to one of the staff. A comments form
is available in the Guide if you have a suggestion
or complaint you wish to put in writing.
Alternatively, please feel free to write to the
Museum or telephone (02) 9217 0389.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Mr Mark Johnson, LLB, MBA
Terms: 1.1.97 – 31.12.99; 1.1.00 – 31.12.02.
Chairman, Axiss Advisory Board, Axiss Australia;
Deputy Chairman, Macquarie Bank Limited.
Director, Australian Gas Light Company;
Director, Victor Chang Cardiac Research
Institute; Director, Biota Holdings Ltd; Director,
Sydney Futures Exchange Limited.
Meetings: attended – 3; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 6; absent – 0.
Ms Kylie Winkworth, BA (Hons)
Terms: 1.1.96 – 31.12.97; 1.1.98 – 31.12.00;
1.1.01 – 31.12.03
Museum and heritage consultant. Member,
Movable Heritage Committee, Heritage Office,
NSW; Member Reference Panel for Migration
Heritage Centre, NSW.
Meetings: attended – 8; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 1; absent – 0.
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Italiana’; Member, Advisory Council, Australian
Graduate School of Management.
Meetings: attended – 8; eligible to attend – 9;
leave of absence given – 1; absent – 0.
Our commitment to you
Any written suggestion or complaint you make to
the Museum will receive a response from us
within four to 10 working days. If we are unable
to meet this commitment you will be informed
immediately of our intended action.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
17. CODE OF CONDUCT
The Museum’s Code of Conduct remains
unchanged - except for the replacement of the
Mission Statement with the revised version (see
inside front cover).
18. PRIVACY AND PERSONAL
INFORMATION
The Privacy and Personal Information Protection
Act 1998 was developed to protect the privacy of
individuals from the inappropriate collection,
storage, use and disclosure of personal
information by NSW public sector agencies. The
Museum conducts its business in accordance
with the Act and with the Privacy Management
Plan developed by the Museum and submitted to
the Privacy Commissioner in June 2000, in
accordance with section 33 of the Act.
The Museum has sought to be covered by the
Code of Practice governing research work which
was drafted by Privacy NSW in the period, having
been developed in consultation with the Museum
and other NSW cultural organisations.
19. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
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The following Statement of Affairs is presented in
accordance with section 14(1)(b) and (3) of the
Freedom of Information Act 1989. The FOI statement
of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (FOI
Agency No 384) is correct as at 30 June 2001.
Establishment
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences was
established under the Museum of Applied Arts and
Sciences Act 1945. The Museum has perpetual
succession, has a common seal, may purchase,
hold, grant, demise, dispose of or otherwise deal
with real and personal property and may sue and
be sued in its corporate name ‘The Trustees of the
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences’.
Organisation
Section 4 of the Museum of Applied Arts and
Sciences Act establishes the Trustees of the
Museum. The Trustees are responsible for the
conduct and control of the affairs of the Museum
and for its policies. All officers and employees of
the Museum are appointed or employed under the
Public Sector Management Act 1988.
Objects and functions
The objects and functions of the Museum are
described in section 14 of the Museum of Applied
Arts and Sciences Act as follows:
The Trustees shall have the following objects and
may exercise any or all of the following functions:
(a) the control and management of the Museum;
and
(b) the maintenance and administration of the
Museum in such manner as will effectively
minister to the needs and demands of the
community in any or all branches of applied
science and art and the development of
industry by:
(i) the display of selected objects
arranged to illustrate the industrial
advance of civilisation and the
development of inventions and
manufactures;
(ii) the promotion of craftsmanship and
artistic taste by illustrating the history
and development of the applied arts;
(iii) lectures, broadcasts, films,
publications and other educational
means;
(iv) scientific research; or
(v) any other means necessary or
desirable for the development of the
natural resources and manufacturing
industries of New South Wales.
Arrangements for outside participation
The Museum welcomes public comment and
suggestions for improving its services and
facilities and regularly receives representations
from the public concerning its operations. A
comments form is available to all visitors in the
Museum's free Guide publication. Often visitors
prefer to speak to the staff on duty.
In 2000–2001 there were 490 written visitor
comments forms or letters registered, 261 of
which contained compliments, 253 contained
complaints and 136 contained suggestions. As
some forms or letters contained more than one
complaint, there were 300 complaints altogether,
as follows: catering 47; exhibition design 40;
facilities 30; public programs 20; admission
charges 18; exhibitions content 18; signage –
external 16; exhibitions maintenance 16;
exhibitions general 16; promotion/advertising 15;
signage – internal 15; customer service 14;
members 12; museum general 10; school
groups/children 7; shops 5; Sydney Observatory
1. Please see page 19 for changes made to the
Museum’s catering arrangements in the period.
Summary of Affairs
(FOI Agency No. 384)
Privacy management plan
Property development master plan
Public programs policies and procedures
Publications policies and procedures
Sponsorship policy
Stores consolidation project plan (heritage on
the move)
Waste reduction and purchasing plan
Section 2 – Statement of Affairs
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Statement of Affairs is available free of charge
from the Powerhouse Museum between the hours
of 8.30 am and 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. Prior
arrangements should be made with the FOI
Coordinator (contact details below).
Section 3 – Contact arrangements
Requests for records or documents under the
Freedom of Information Act 1989 should be
accompanied by a $30.00 application fee and
directed to:
Freedom of Information Coordinator
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
PO Box K346
Haymarket NSW 1238
Phone (02) 9217 0576
Fax (02) 9217 0459
No requests for information under FOI were
received in 2000–2001.
Facilities for access
The Museum caters for public access to its
collections, with staff available to assist with
inquiries. The service is available by appointment
between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm Monday to Friday
(except public holidays).
20. LEGISLATIVE CHANGES
There were no legislative changes made during
the year.
21. AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
The following documents are used to guide the
Museum’s operations:
The Museum provides facilities and resources to
the following 39 societies (representing some
20,000 people), which are affiliated with the
Museum (as at 30 June 2001):
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Act 1945
and Regulation
Annual report 1999–2000
Corporate plan 1999–2002 (revised June 2000)
Accounting policies and procedures
Administration policies and procedures
Code of conduct
Collection development policy and plans
Collection management policies and procedures
Commercial operations policies and procedures
Contractors policy and procedures
Copyright policy
Disability action plan
Emergency procedures manual
Equal employment opportunity management plan
Ethnic affairs priorities statement
Exhibitions policies and plans
Grievance and dispute resolution policy
Guarantee of service statement
Information technology strategic plan
Internship policy and program
OH&S policies and procedures
Outreach policy
Personnel policies and procedures
Antique Arms Collectors Society of Australia
Art Deco Society of NSW
The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc.
Association of Australian Decorative and Fine
Arts Societies (Kuring-gai and Sydney branches)
Australian Association of Musical Instrument
Makers (NSW Branch)
Australian Flute Society Inc
Australian Lace Guild (NSW)
The Australian Numismatic Society
The Australiana Society
The Aviation Historical Society of Australia
(NSW Branch)
British Astronomical Association (NSW Branch)
Ceramic Collectors Society
Ceramic Study Group Inc.
The Colour Society of Australia (NSW)
Design Institute of Australia, NSW Chapter
The Doll Collectors Club of New South Wales Inc.
The Early Music Association of NSW
The Embroiderers' Guild NSW Inc.
The Furniture History Society (Australasia) Inc
The Horological Guild of Australasia
(NSW Branch)
Section 1 – policy documents
Life Fellows of the Museum:
Mr Pat Boland, OAM, ED
Mr William Bradshaw
Mr Kevin Fahy
Mr Gerry Gleeson, AC
Mr Trevor Kennedy, AM
Mr Malcolm King, AM
Mr Fred Millar, AO, CBE
Ms Anne Schofield
Mr Leo Schofield, AM, Chevalier de
L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Hon Neville Wran, AC, QC
Recipients of Distinguished
Service Awards:
Mr Carl Andrew
Dr Allan G. Bromley
Mr John Godschall Johnson, OAM
Mr Doug Hardy
Mrs Chris McDiven
Mr Jack Willis
Ms Wendy Hucker
The Honorary Associates of
the Museum and their areas
of expertise:
Prof John Bach - maritime history
Mr William Bradshaw - English
furniture, clocks
Dr Allan G. Bromley - computing history
Major Ian Brookes - Japanese swords
Mr William D. Bush - numismatics
Emeritus Professor Alexander
Cambitoglou, AO - classical
antiquities
Dr Robert Carson - numismatics
Mr Dennis Eccles - clocks
23. VOLUNTEERS
Mr John A’Beckett
Ms Kim Alexander
Mr Scott Allen
Mr Michael Allen
Mr Thomas Anderson
Mr Erik Bachmann
Mrs Jean Baigent
Mr Robert Baird
Mr Allen Baker
Mr Andrew Ball
Mr Timothy Ball
Mrs Betty Balmer
Mrs Lydia Bell
Mrs Leah Bernstein
Ms Audrey Berry
Ms Robin Beveridge
Mrs Fleur Bishop
Mrs Elizabeth Blair
Ms Ann Bogaz
Mr Pat Boland OAM, ED
Mr Ronald Bowbrick
Mrs Joyce Bradbury
Ms Muriel Breiesser
Miss Pam Burden
Miss Benedetta Calzavara
Mr Fulvio Campos
Ms Linda Carmichael
Mr James Carroll
Mrs Annette Casey
Miss Amy Chui
Mr Wenford Clifton
Mrs Susan Cohen
Ms Joan Cole
Mr Leon Corn
Ms Leanne Croker
Mrs Janet Curtis
Mr Robert Degotardi
Ms Lynley Dougherty
Mrs Linda Dunn
Mrs Judith Durie
Ms Beryl Dwyer
Mr John Ebner
Mr Roy Eldridge
Mrs Gillian Evans
Miss Georgina Ewart
Mrs June Fitzpatrick
Ms Marie Flores
Mr Jeffrey Flower
Mr Donald French
Mr George Fry
Mr Graham Fry
Mr Max Gay
Ms Emily Gilbert
Mr Robert Gillespie
Mrs Helen Goddard
Miss Dorothy Green
Mr Ross Green
Mrs Julia Hall
Mr Val Hamey
Mrs Christina Hargreave
Mr Vic Harris
Mrs Lesley Harwood
Mrs Helen Hattersley
Mrs Judith Hawes
Mrs Mary Hendry
Ms Prue Hill
Ms Cherie Hingee
Mrs Susanne Hledik
Mrs Patricia Hodgkinson
Mrs Pamela Hotten
Ms Abigail Howells
Mrs Nina Huelin
Miss Fifin Intan
Miss Danielle Johnson
Mrs Merle Johnson
Mrs Joan Johnson
Mr Frank Joyce
Mr Vasilios Karydis
Miss Penny Katsaros
Miss Josephine Kearney
Miss Eleanor Keene
Ms Amelia Klein
Miss Marivic Lagleva
Mr Trevor Leck
Miss Anna Lee
Mr Monty Leventhal
Dr Ronald Lewis
Mr Peter Lindgren
Ms Melissa Lynch
Mr Harvey MacDonald
Mrs Patricia MacDonald
Mr Dominic Mackintosh
Mr Jack Mandelberg
Miss Janine Marcus
Ms Margaret Massam
Ms Rebecca Matheson
Mr Keith Matts
Mr Cyril McColough
Mrs Shirley McDonald
Mr Marcus McInnes
Ms Dorothy McLean
Mrs Kathleen Mist
Mr Gilbert Mitchell
Mr Ken Mitchell
Mrs Phyllis Mitchell
Mr Adam Moszt
Mr Andrew Moyes
Ms Cheering Ng
Mr Chui Ng
Mrs Barbara Nivison-Smith
Mrs Janet Paterson
Miss Christine Patton
Mrs Beverley Pescott
Mr Rex Peters
Ms Deborah Van Der Platt
Miss Pep Prodromou
Mrs Dorelle Propert
Mrs Pamela Radford
Miss Celia Reid
Mr Peter Rennie
Mr Julio Roa
Mrs Christina Roberts
Mr Thomas Robertson
Mrs Jean Roffey
Ms Sabina Rubens
Mr Mark Robinson
Ms Leslie Russell
Mrs Jacqueline Ruston
Mrs Shirley Ruxton
Mrs Mary Ryland
Ms Katy Sade
Mr Bruce Saunders
Miss Maria Savvidis
Mr Alex Sawyer
Mrs Olga Sawyer
Miss Regina Schultz
Mrs Deborah Seddon
Ms Coral Serisier
Mr Miron Shapira
Mrs Anne Slade
Mrs Anne Smith
Ms Mary Smith
Mrs Heather Stevens
Mrs Margaret Stevenson
Miss Caroline St George
Mr Paul Storm
Miss Linda Sullivan
Mr Albert Taylor
Mr Frank Theobald
Mrs Queenie Thompson
Mrs Helen Tierney
Mrs Joan Walker
Mr Bevan Wall
Mrs Margaret Waller
Mr William Walsh
Mrs Annette Ward
Mr Peter Warren
Mr Victor Wong-Doo
Miss Grace Woodrow
Mr John Wright
Mrs Barbara Wright
Mr John Yakalis
Mrs June Yeomans
Seventy-eight volunteers also
assisted with the Anne Frank
exhibition, programs and reading.
24. CONTRIBUTING
AND LIFE MEMBERS
Contributing Members:
Mr Mark Andrews
Mr Anthony Buckley
Mr W. L. Chapman
Dr David Eager
Miss P. Earhart
Mr Robert Edwards
Ms Edwina Gowans
Mr J. Grierson
Ms Wendy Haxton
Mr Theo Hooft
Ms Stavroula Kostacopoulos
Mr Chris Kuan
Mr Joseph Lamaro
Mr Graeme K. Le Roux
Mrs Beryl J. Malone
Mr Anthony W. McIntyre
Mr Andrew McKinnon
Miss D. McLaughlin
Mrs D. J. Morris
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
22. LIFE FELLOWS,
DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE AWARDS
AND HONORARY
ASSOCIATES
Mr Kevin Fahy - Australiana,
furniture, ceramics
Mr John Hawkins - silver
Mr Jolyon Warwick James - silver
Mr John Jeremy - restoration
Mr John Godschall Johnson, OAM musical instruments
Mr Alan Landis - ceramics, glass
Mr Ross Langlands - oriental rugs
and textiles
Ms Anne Schofield - costume,
jewellery
Mr John Shorter, CBE - ceramics,
Doulton
Dr George Soutter - ceramics,
furniture, rugs
Miss Elizabeth Todd, OAM - music
Mr Leslie Walford - decorative arts
Mr Barclay Wright - musical
instruments
Dr John Yu, AM - ceramics,
furniture, rugs
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Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group
of Australia
The Knitters’ Guild NSW Inc.
The Metropolitan Coin Club of Sydney
National Space Society of Australia
Object: Australian Centre for
Craft and Design
Oral History Association of
Australia (NSW)
Oriental Rug Society of NSW
Philatelic Association of NSW
The Phonograph Society of NSW
The Potters’ Society of Australia
Pyrmont Ultimo Historical Society
The Quilters’ Guild Inc.
Royal Aeronautical Society,
Australian Division, Sydney
Branch Inc
The Royal Photographic Society of
Great Britain, NSW Chapter
The Silver Society of Australia Inc.
Sydney Space Association
The Twentieth Century Heritage
Society of NSW Inc.
The Wedgwood Society of New
South Wales Inc.
Woodworkers’ Association of NSW
Miss Susan S. Nicholson
Mr A. M. Rochford
Mr Dirk J. Stoffels
Mr Christopher Wallace
Mrs Mary White
Mr S A. Woodward
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dual Contributing Members
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Mr Brian Baillie and
Mrs Cynthia Baillie
Mr Max Burnet and Ms Joy Darwin
Mrs Sarah Darling and
Mr Jeffrey Darling
Mr D. M. Fraser and Mrs M. Fraser
Mr Edward Glanville and
Mrs Margery Glanville
Mrs Bettina G. Gowing and
Mr R. C. Gowing
Mr Robert Harrington and
Mrs Anne Harrington
Mr Frank Male and Ms Jennie Male
Mr Keith Mentiplay and
Ms Pauline McLaren
Dr David Millons and
Mrs Barbara Millons
Mr Paul Mottram and
Mr Prapaipuk Mottram
Mr Brinos Notaras and
Mr Basil Notaras
Dr Gene Sherman and
Mr Brian Sherman
Mrs C. Simpson and Mr P. Simpson
Mrs M. C. Speirs and Mr I. C. Speirs
Mr Kenneth H. Stacey and
Mrs Shirley Stacey
Mr Joseph Van Blarg and
Ms Kathy Haden
Mr Justice Peter Young and
Ms Pamela Young
Life Members
Miss K. Armstrong
Mr G. Barnes
Mr J. R. Baxter
Mr D. Block
Mr Willian D. Bush
Mr W. Dobson
Mr R. Ellis
Ms E. Filla
Mrs G. H. Flinn
Mrs M. S. Griffiths
Mr M. Grossman
Miss H. Hindle
Mr Neville Hodgson
Mrs Beverley Horwitz
Mr M. G. King
Mr Terence Measham, AM, FRSA
Mr J. Millner
Mr R. Reed
Mr A. L. Rigby, AM
Mr Royston Riley and Mrs P. Riley
Mr P. Root
Mrs P. Seidler
Mr W. S. Tatlow
25. MEMBERS EVENTS
Exhibition viewings
1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient
Greece
Dead sea scrolls (at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales)
Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex
Leicester - notebook of a genius
Earth, spirit, fire - Korean
masterpieces of the Choson
Dynasty
Let the Games begin: costumes
from the Olympic Games opening
ceremony, with guest speaker
Jenny Kee
Behind-the-scenes tours
Powerhouse Museum basement
and catwalk tour
Special events
Members dinner and viewing of
1000 years of the Olympic
Games: treasures of ancient
Greece
Exclusive Members viewing of the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
closing ceremony fireworks at
Sydney Observatory
Christmas party for Members
New Years Eve fireworks at
Sydney Observatory
Members open day
Yuri’s space party,
commemorating Yuri Gagarin’s
space flight
Talk the talk - lecture series
with curators
Earth, spirit and fire exhibition Claire Roberts
Leonardo da Vinci: the man, the
exhibition - Michael Desmond
1000 years of the Olympics Paul Donnelly
Paper and textile conservation Pat Townley
Gallipoli: a Turkish perspective Mr Robert Cadry and
Dr Kevin Fewster, AM
Talking Tyrrell - Ian Hoskins
50th anniversary of the Catalina
flying boat – Ian Debenham
Children’s events
Myth mask-making
Trains, planes and automobiles
Musical SoundHouse
Museum detective
Fossils – Australia’s lost
kingdoms at the Australian
Museum
Make a model plane
Tours
Walking tour of Ultimo
Ghost tour of the
Quarantine Station
Other
Computer music course at the
SoundHouse
26. STAFFING
Actual staff by department as at 30
June 2001
Directorate
EFT*
Directorate
2.0
Secretariat
2.0
Evaluation
3.0
Corporate Development
4.0
Directorate Total
11.0
Corporate Services
Management
2.0
Finance
12.6
Human Resources
11.0
Properties
43.6
Security
27.4
Corporate Services Total
96.6
Collections and Exhibitions
Management
3.0
Collection Development and Research 4.0
Curatorial
35.4
Conservation
24.3
Registration
19.0
Exhibition Development
35.2
Collections and Exhibitions Total
120.9
Knowledge and Information Management
Management
10.5
Information Technology
6.0
Records
3.0
Research Library
6.0
AMOL
4.0
Knowledge and Information
Management Total
29.5
Programs and Commercial Operations
Management
2.0
Marketing and Media
8.0
Print Media
7.0
Educations and Visitor Services
36.4
Shops
6.4
Venue Operations
44.0
Members
4.8
Programs and Commercial
Operations Total
108.6
Museum Total
366.6
* equivalent full time
27. SES POSITIONS
During 2000–2001 the following were members of the State Government Senior Executive Service:
Director
Kevin Fewster, BA Hons (ANU), PhD (UNSW)
Deputy Director, Collections and Exhibitions
Jennifer Sanders, BA Hons (Syd)
Associate Director, Corporate Services
Michael Landsbergen, M. of Mgmt (UTS)
Associate Director, Programs and Commercial Services
Mark Goggin (from 28 May 2001), BA Hons (Mel)
Associate Director, Knowledge and Information Management
Timothy Hart (to 23 March 2001), BSc Arch Hons (Syd)
Kevin Sumption (from 27 July 2001), ND (Natal), BA Hons
HADF (Middlesex), MA (USyd)
SES level
Position title
Sex
4
2
1
1
1
Director
Deputy Director, Collections and Exhibitions
Associate Director, Corporate Services
Associate Director, Programs and Commercial Services
Associate Director, Knowledge and Information Management
Male
Female
Male
Male
Male
SES level
30 June 2001
30 June 2000
4
3
2
1
CEO under s11A*
Total
1
1
1
3
0
5
0
3
0
4
* CEO positions listed under section 11A of the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Act 1975 not included in Schedule 3A of the
Public Sector Management Act 1988.
Number of female SES
1999
2000
1
1
28. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO)
LEVEL
TOTAL STAFF
2000–2001
TOTAL STAFF
1999–2000
WOMEN
2000–2001
WOMEN
1999–2000
NESB*
2000–2001
NESB*
1999–2000
Below Clerical Officer Grade 1–2
4
4
Clerical Officer Grades 1–2
122
115
A&C Grades 1–2
65
86
A&C Grades 3–5
119
81
A&C Grades 6–9
89
85
A&C Grades 10–12
38
35
Above A&C Grade 12
4
4
Total (head count)
441
410
0
0%
49
40%
43
66%
63
53%
19
21%
19
50%
2
50%
195
44%
1
25%
52
45%
52
60%
43
53%
43
51%
19
54%
1
25%
211
51%
1
25%
22
18%
18
28%
20
17%
2
2%
2
5%
1
25%
66
15%
1
25%
21
18%
23
27%
12
15%
20
24%
3
9%
1
25%
81
20%
*Non English speaking background (includes racial, ethnic, ethno-religious minority groups and people whose language first spoken as a child was not English).
Representation and recruitment of Aboriginal employees and employees with a physical disability
Total (head count)
Total staff
2000-2001
441
Total staff
1999-2000
410
Recruited in the year
55
42
Aboriginal people
2000-2001
4
1%
0
0%
Aboriginal people
1999-2000
4
1%
1
2.4%
PWPD*
2000-2001
28
6%
4
7%
PWPD*
1999-2000
28
6.8%
2
4.8%
* People with a physical disability
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
The Museum was able to reflect positive results against the key result areas and performance indicators identified as critical by ODEOPE. The results indicate
the Museum’s commitment to the application of the principles of fairness, equity and merit as key principles underpinning every facet of its operations.
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YEAR
1997-98
1998-99
1999-2000
2000-2001
CLERICAL/
ADMINISTRATIVE
123
145
164
175
PROFESSIONAL
90
89
85
90
PROFESSIONAL
SUPPORT
94
96
76
89
TRADES
OTHER
TOTAL
50
43
36
37
66
51
49
50
423
424
410
441
The above figures are based on a head count of staff and include casual employees.
29. STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Number of staff attending:
Information sessions
869
Computer training
171
Internal training courses run by museum staff
441
Internal training courses run by external providers
154
External training courses
153
Gallery Officer/Customer Service Officer training
541
Total
2,329
Emma Nicholson • Corporate Development Officer
Michael Baldwin • Corporate Development Officer
Amanda Tunchon • Administrative Support Officer
CORPORATE SERVICES DIVISION
Michael Landsbergen • Associate Director
Natalie Bevan • Administrative Assistant
Finance
Carol Scott • Evaluation Coordinator
Vivian Cronin • Project Officer (to 19 January 2001)
Olivia Jenkins • Project Officer (from 7 May 2001)
Sandra Violentis • Clerk
John Kirkland • Manager
Anthony Rogers • Senior Accountant
Ganesathasan Upendran • Management
Accountant (from 4 June 2001)
John McDonald • Assistant Accountant
Frank Yap • Senior Accounts Officer (to 31 July 2000)
Neville Tang-Yan • Senior Accounts Officer (to
29 June 2001)
Cristeta Abellar • Accounts Officer
Agnes Perez • Accounts Officer
Andrew Rothwell • Accounts Officer
Maria Sprem • Accounts Officer
Pedro Zapata • Accounts Officer
Paul Kerr • Accounts Officer
Cindia Tse • Clerk/Word Processor Operator
Corporate Development
Purchasing
Barbara Keen • Corporate Development Manager
Kim Pearce • Administration Officer
30. STAFF LIST
DIRECTORATE
Kevin Fewster • Director
Pauline Bojko • Executive Assistant
Secretariat
Diana Browne • Executive Officer
Mark Daly • Project and Policy Officer (from 12
June 2001)
Evaluation and Audience Research
Human Resources
Jennifer Bulkeley • Manager
Anita Fredkin • Personnel Administrator
Eddy Frittmann • Salaries Supervisor
Chris Cottier • Personnel Clerk
Suzie Grady • Staff/Salaries Clerk
Bruce Godwin • Staff/Salaries Clerk (to 2 May 2001)
Joy Gray • Staff/Salaries Clerk
Farida Ali • Staff/Salaries Clerk
Gosia Sliwa • Staff/Salaries Clerk
Karen Vaughan • Staff/Salaries Clerk
Occupational Health and Safety
Robyn Gardner • Health and Safety Officer
Staff Development
Judy Dwyer • Staff Development Officer
Debra Caples • Training Officer
Properties
Robert Scott • Manager
Sharon Dickson • Clerk/Word Processor Operator
Robert Webb • Property Development Coordinator
Neil Ryan • Building Services Coordinator
Roberto Tagle • Programs Clerk
Keith Landy • Electrical Supervisor
Owen Pauling • Plant Electrician
Leon Anderson • Electrical Fitter (to 3 August 2000)
APPENDIX
Comparison of staff numbers for all permanent and temporary staff by occupational category
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
APPENDIX
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Peter Hermon • Electrical Fitter
Brendon Munson • Electrical Fitter (from 9 April 2001)
Paul Scheibel • Electrical Fitter
Kevin Squires • Electrical Fitter (from 4 June 2001)
Kevin Laker • Building Supervisor
Brian Ricks • Workshop Supervisor
Greg Hoares• Senior Preparator
Peter Stevenson • Preparator
Brian Connolly • Preparator
Tim Haire • Preparator
Rodney Hendy • Preparator
Stephen Mason • Preparator (to 15 December 2000)
Graeme Plat • Preparator
Iain Scott-Stevenson • Preparator
Jaime Vicent • Preparator
Graeme Coughlan • Preparator (from 14 May 2001)
Leigh Ritchie • Transport Officer
Lawrence Adams • Driver
Stephen Agius • Driver
Ian Banks • Stores Officer
Gavin Parsons • House Supervisor
Paul Laxton • Museum Officer
Brian James • Plant Superintendent
Simon Graham • Assistant Plant Superintendent
(to 11 August 2000)
Shaun Dal Santo • Plant Fitter Operator
Wayne Voss • Plant Fitter Operator
Michael Williams • Plant Fitter Operator (from
16 October 2000)
Alan McFarlane • Operations Coordinator (to 28
July 2000)
David Nelson • Senior Preparator
Jim Betsos • Preparator
Ron Fishpool • Preparator
Ravi Prakash • Technical Services Coordinator
Owen Conlan • Senior Electronics Technician
Richard Berrell • Operations Technician (to 10
November 2000)
William Jeffery • Operations Technician
Arturo Rivillo • Operations Technician
Timothy Wilson • Operations Technician
Alfred Khanlu • Operations Technician (from 9
April 2001)
Adrian Pintabona • Apprentice
Alan Antonio • Apprentice (to 2 February 2001)
Ali El Najjar • Apprentice (from 5 February 2001)
Daniel Jensen • Apprentice (from 20 February 2001)
Grant Thomson • Apprentice (to 2 February 2001)
Security
Jonathan Wick • Deputy Operations Manager
Rachelle Graves • Administrative Officer
Julie-Ann Dighton • Clerical Officer
Colin Gaut • Security Supervisor
Brian Curtis • Security Supervisor
Andrew McGeoch • Security Supervisor
Raymond Allen • Security Officer
Vincent Defrancesco • Security Officer
Bede Langley • Security Officer
Richard Assange • Security Officer
John Browne • Security Officer
Malcolm Bryan • Security Officer
Victor Denina • Security Officer
Anthony Kuster • Security Officer
Stephen Lee • Security Officer
David Meehan • Security Officer
Andrew Novosel • Security Officer
William Quilkey • Security Officer
Michael Rogers • Security Officer
Bratislav Stankovic • Security Officer
Ron Stevenson • Security Officer
Glen Ward • Security Officer
Peter Ward • Security Officer
Francis Wong • Security Officer
Damian Langley • Security Officer
(from 19 July 2000)
Aldo Franks • Security Officer
(from 24 July 2000)
Mark Foxwell • Security Officer
(from 12 July 2000)
Nicholas de Ridder • Security Officer (from 12
January 2001)
COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS DIVISION
Jennifer Sanders • Deputy Director
Kathryn King • Administrative Assistant (from 3
October 2000)
Collection Development and Research
Michael Desmond • Manager
Brenda Duncombe • Administrative Officer
Julia Foong • Administrative Assistant (from 28
May 2001)
Esther Chan • Clerical Officer
Curatorial Departments
Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design
Grace Cochrane • Curator
Claire Roberts • Curator
Rosemary Shepherd • Lace Specialist
Anne Marie van de Ven • Curator
Min-Jung Kim • Assistant Curator (to 15 March
2001)
Historical Decorative Arts and Design
Eva Czerniz-Ryl • Curator
Paul Donnelly • Curator
Michael Lea • Curator
Louise Mitchell • Curator
Christina Sumner • Curator
Anne Watson • Curator
Glynis Jones • Assistant Curator
Lindy Ward • Assistant Curator
Melanie Eastburn • Curator (from 29 March 2001)
Engineering and Design
Robert Renew • Senior Curator
Des Barrett • Curator
Sandra McEwen • Curator
Deborah Rudder • Curator
Anni Turnbull • Assistant Curator
Helen Whitty • Program Development
Coordinator
Angelique Hutchison • Assistant Curator
Transport and Communications
Andrew Grant • Senior Curator
Ian Debenham • Curator
Kerrie Dougherty • Curator
Richard Peck • Curator
Margaret Simpson • Assistant Curator
Sciences
Jesse Shore • Senior Curator
Matthew Connell • Curator
Megan Hicks • Curator
Nick Lomb • Curator
Campbell Bickerstaff • Assistant Curator
Australian Social History
Kimberley Webber • Senior Curator
Charles Pickett • Curator
Ann Stephen • Curator
James Wilson-Miller • Curator
Peter Cox • Curator
Martha Sear • Curator (to 29 June 2001)
Ian Hoskins • Assistant Curator
Fabri Blacklock • Assistant Curator
Alissar Chidiac • Education Officer
Jeannine Baker • Assistant Curator (from 29
May 2001)
Collection Management
Conservation
Pat Townley • Head Conservator
Suzanne Chee • Conservator
Kate Chidlow • Conservator
Graham Clegg • Conservator
Malgorzata Dudek • Conservator
James Elwing • Conservator
Frances Fitzpatrick • Conservator
Sue Gatenby • Conservator
Mary Gissing • Conservator
Ross Goodman • Conservator
Bronwen Griffin • Conservator
Malgorzata Juraszek • Conservator
Deidre McKillop • Conservator
Roger Parris • Conservator
Keith Potter • Conservator
David Rockell • Conservator
Carey Ward • Conservator
Teresa Werstak • Conservator
Paul Brown • Assistant Conservator
Nadia de Wachter • Assistant Conservator
Cheryl Griswold • Assistant Conservator
Geraldine Hunt • Assistant Conservator
Megan Jordan-Jones • Assistant Conservator
Tim Morris • Assistant Conservator
Jennifer Edmonds • Assistant Conservator
Therese Dimech • Clerical Officer
Ron Bowbrick • Stationary Steam Engine Demonstrator
Bill Ebert • Stationary Steam Engine Demonstrator
Len Lark • Stationary Steam Engine Demonstrator
Brian Jaeger • Stationary Steam Engine
Demonstrator (from 3 January 2001)
Nitsa Yioupros • Photographer
Registration
Des Beechey • Senior Registrar
Judy Coombes • Senior Registrar
Geoff Davis • Registrar
Caroline Berlyn • Registrar
Helen Yoxall • Archivist
Susan Davidson • Registrar
Heather Chandler • Registrar (to 12 January 2001)
Myfanwy Eaves • Registrar
Tiina Hendrikson • Registrar
Lynne McNairn • Collections Systems Officer
Nicole Balmer • Assistant Registrar
Rebecca Bower • Assistant Registrar
Alison Brennan • Assistant Registrar
Mandy Crook • Assistant Registrar
Emma Nicol • Assistant Registrar
Barbara Palmer • Assistant Registrar
Peter Tilley • Assistant Registrar
Stephanie Boast • Assistant Registrar
Katrina Hogan • Assistant Registrar
Julius Medgyessy • Clerical Officer
Terence Mooney • Clerical Officer
Robert Moore • Clerical Officer
Joan Watson • Clerical Officer
Kate Harris • Clerical Officer
Lam Ba • Attendant
Exhibition Coordination
Toner Stevenson • Exhibition Coordination Manager
Tara Kita • Exhibition Coordinator
Joanne Delzoppo • Exhibition Coordinator (from
21 May 2001)
Susan McMunn • Exhibition Coordinator
Catherine Sidwell • Exhibition Coordinator
Julia Carroll • Administrative Assistant
Dimity Mullane • Administrative Assistant
Cathy Nunn • Admin Assistant (from 30 March 2001)
Design
Diana Lorentz • Senior Designer
Trina Day • Display Planner
Fiona Young • Display Planner (from 2 April 2001)
Jennifer Ison • Display Planner
Danny Jacobson • Display Planner
Paula Murray • Display Planner (to 6 October 2000)
Christina Carayanides • Display Planner (from
21 March 2001)
Colin Rowan • Display Planner
Cecilia Salazar • Display Planner
Janine Roberts • Designer
Stephen Jannar • Design Draughtsperson
Malcolm McKernan • Design Draughtsperson
(from 14 June 2001)
Interactives
Arthur Menasse • Interactives Supervisor
Huw White • Industrial Designer (to 20 October 2000)
James Laurendet • Industrial Designer
Gary Chamberlain • Industrial Designer
Kathy La Fontaine • Systems Officer
Andrew Lawrence • Multimedia Programmer
(from 2 November 2000)
Jonathon Hirsch • Technical Officer
Geoffrey Drane • Senior Preparator
Andrew Jakeman • Preparator
Leigh Davidson • Electrical Engineer
Kate Lamerton • Designer
Audio Visuals
Zoltan Nemes-Nemeth • Multimedia Supervisor
Kathleen Phillips • Producer
Photography
Geoff Friend • Photographic Supervisor
Marinco Kojdanovski • Photographer
Jean-Francois Lanzarone • Photographer (from 4
October 2000)
Sue Stafford • Photographer
Sotha Bourn • Photographic Assistant
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Tim Hart • Associate Director (to 23 March 2001)
Leone Joice • Administrative Assistant (from 9
October 2000)
Jason Gee • Website Coordinator
Irma Havlicek • Online Content Coordinator
Scott Donkin • IRC Administrator (to 12 June 2001)
Ryan Hernandez • Photographer
IT Projects
Sarah Kenderdine • Special Projects Coordinator
Alexander Davies • Systems Officer (web
production) (from 24 April 2001)
Peter Murphy • Systems Officer (web
photographer) (from 23 April 2001)
Tom Phillipson • Systems Assistant (web
assistant) (from 30 April 2001)
Brett Stanley • Systems Officer (web database
developer) (from 14 May 2001)
Ross Cavanagh • Systems Assistant
(from 14 May 2001)
Ingrid Mason • Systems Officer
Judith Matheson • Publications Editor
Melanie Cariss • Editorial Assistant
Jacob Del Castillo • Artist
Anne Slam • Desktop Publishing Officer
Deb Renaud • DTP/Distribution Officer
Information Technology
Education and Visitor Services
Mitra Bhar • Manager
George Rossi • Network Administrator
Kem Mang • Senior Systems Officer (to 24
November 2000)
Sebastian Chan • Systems Administrator
(Project Manager, Virtual Museum; Producer,
Soundbyte.org)
Peter Mahoney • SoundHouse Educator (Project
Manager, Soundbyte.org)
Derek Phung • Senior Systems Officer
Tony Simone • Microsoft NT Administrator
Andrew Axton • Systems Assistant
Beatrice D'Souza • Systems Assistant
Jana Vytrhlik • Manager
Leonie Crane • Administrative Coordinator
Julie Garradd • Visitor Program Coordinator
Steve Miller • Program Coordinator
Lysele Poulsen • Education Officer
Lorraine Barlow • Education Officer (to 23
March 2001)
Kath Daniel • Education Officer
Heleanor Feltham • Education Officer
Faye Gardiner • Education Officer
Judith Flett • Education Officer
Jeannie Kitchener • Education Officer
Allan Kreuiter • Education Officer
Peter Mahony • SoundHouse Educator
Robert Swieca • Education Officer
Angus Tse • Education Officer
Maki Taguchi • Education Officer
Michael van Tiel • Education Officer
Jane Latief • Education Officer
Rita Bila • Education Officer
Martin Anderson • Assistant Education Officer
Andrew Constantine • Assistant Education Officer
John Cowie • Assistant Education Officer
Kim Fisher • Assistant Education Officer
Kylie Gillespie • Assistant Education Officer
(from 9 October 2000)
Karen Griffiths • Assistant Education Officer
(from 3 October 2000)
Matoula Ioannou • Assistant Education Officer
Michael Jones • Assistant Education Officer
(from 23 March 2001)
Linda Larsen • Assistant Education Officer
Jacquelyn Latham • Assistant Education Officer
(from 6 April 2001)
Anthony Lennon • Assistant Education Officer
(from 9 April 2001)
Diana New • Assistant Education Officer (to 1
December 2000)
Rita Orsini • Assistant Education Officer
Ann Proudfoot • Assistant Education Officer
Anne Slade • Assistant Education Officer (to 13
November 2000)
Robert Smith • Assistant Education Officer
Rodney Somerville • Assistant Education Officer
(to 31 August 2000)
Mary Stewart • Assistant Education Officer
(from 3 October 2000)
Deborah Vaughan • Assistant Education Officer
Sharon Whatman • Assistant Education Officer
(from 26 March 2001
Geoff Wyatt • Assistant Education Officer
Denise Teale • Bookings Officer
Jan Garland • Typist
Nancy La Mott • Bookings Officer
Selepa Nannai • Clerical Officer
Melissa Hulbert • Bookings Officer (from 19
October 2000)
Records
Margaret Adamson • Records Manager
Elke Holzapfel • Records Coordinator
Stuart Broughton • Records Clerk
Leo Auciello • Records Clerk (to 22 December 2000)
Research Library
Margaret Rafferty • Head Librarian
Karen Johnson • Librarian
Matthew Davies • Librarian (from 12 June 2001)
Jan Turbit • Senior Library Technician
Eva Day • Assistant Library Technician (to 28
September 2000)
Gara Baldwin • Rights and Permissions Officer
Elizabeth Pastor • Rights and Permissions
Officer (from 4 December 2000)
Kathleen Hackett • Senior Library Technician
AMOL Project
Kevin Sumption • AMOL Project Manager
Lee Adendorff • AMOL Coordinator
Basil Dewhurst • AMOL Coordinator
Gina Shrubsall • Data Entry Officer (to 21 July 2000)
Sophie Daniel • AMOL National Guide Coordinator
PROGRAMS AND COMMERCIAL
OPERATIONS DIVISION
Mark Goggin • Associate Director (from 28 May 2001)
Maureen Wallace • Administrative Assistant
Media and Marketing
Geoff Bannon • Marketing Manager
Peta Menzies• Media/Marketing Coordinator (to
23 February 2001)
Emma Williams • Media/Marketing Coordinator
(from 30 May 2001)
Sally Quinn • Media/Marketing Officer
Merrett Peterson • Media/Marketiing Officer (to
4 May 2001)
Amanda Campbell-Avenell • Media/Marketing Officer
Sophie Bearup • Media/Marketing Officer (from
8 May 2001)
Nina Exharos • Marketing Officer (from 24 July 2000)
Danielle Fleming • Marketing Assistant (to 14
July 2000)
Angela Howes • Marketing Information Officer
(to 2 May 2001)
Lucy Eaton • Marketing Clerk (to 23 March 2001)
Jennifer White • Marketing Clerk (from 26 April 2001)
Louise Sochacki • Marketing Information Officer
(from 23 May 2001)
Print Media and Powerhouse Publishing
Julie Donaldson • Manager
Karin Vesk • Publications Editor
Shops
Johanna Watson • Merchandising Manager
Tina Workman • Manager
Pat Alexopolous • Clerk
Shauntai Batzke • Sales Assistant (from 23
March 2001)
Louise Cannane • Sales Assistant
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Brad Baker • Manager
Nikki Vasiliadis • Administrative Assistant (from
5 March 2001)
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Exhibition Development
Dominica Heron • Customer Service Officer
Maria Jensen • Customer Service Officer
Sarah Johnson • Customer Service Officer (to 15
December 2000)
Catherine Jones • Customer Service Officer
(from 17 Setpember 2000)
Marlysse Medina • Customer Service Officer
Patricia Muzzio • Customer Service Officer
Marcia Pidgeon • Customer Service Officer
Deb Renaud • Customer Service Officer
Fran Roach • Switchboard Operator
Chris Rossi • Customer Service Officer
Roy Smith • Customer Service Officer
John Griffin • Senior Operations Technician
(Theatre)
Eric Holly • Operations Technician (Theatre)
Laurie-Anne Bentley • Events Sales Manager
James Hallahan • Events Coordinator (to 7 July 2000)
Michael Hamer • Events Coordinator
Fiona Bennett • Events Coordinator
Demos Alexander • Gallery Officer
Heather Bennett • Gallery Officer
John Bennett • Gallery Officer
Clive Bull • Gallery Officer
Jean Brown • Gallery Officer (from 4 October 2000)
Juan Correa • Gallery Officer
Brian Crispin • Gallery Officer
Jaswant Dhami • Gallery Officer
Einar Docker • Gallery Officer
Jeremy Dykgraaff • Gallery Officer (to 29
September 2000)
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
Maria Doukas • Sales Assistant (from 8
September 2000)
Matthew Glasson • Sales Assistant (to 18 July 2000)
Sarah Pointon • Sales Assistant
David Stafford • Sales Assistant (from 26
March 2001)
Benjamin Stonehouse • Sales Assistant (from
26 March 2001)
David Waller • Sales Assistant (from
25 September 2000)
Venue Operations
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32. PAYMENT PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Jane Turner • Operations Manager
Bernard Hawes • Deputy Operations Manager
Robert Chancellor • Assistant Venue Manager
Barry Brown • Assistant Venue Manager
Chris Antoniou • Assistant Venue Manager
Miranda Purnell • Administrative Assistant
(from 19 February 2001)
Matthew Smith • Operations Supervisor
Arnaldo Azevedo • Museum Officer (to 27 April 2001)
Glen Bevan • Museum Officer
Paul Villarruel • Museum Officer
Timothy Antill • Museum Officer
Eduardo Carrasco • Museum Officer (from 28
June 2001)
John Blayney-Murphy • Museum Officer (to 12
April 2001)
Djamila Hacene • Senior Customer Service
Officer (from 16 August 2000)
Michael Davidson • Customer Service Officer
Colin Horn • Gallery Officer
Christine Howard • Gallery Officer
Gerald Kilby • Gallery Officer
Fiona McClennan • Gallery Officer
Teresa Monteleone • Gallery Officer
Britta Mortensen • Gallery Officer (to 30 March 2001)
Keith Myles • Gallery Officer
Peter Ryan • Gallery Officer (from 25 September 2000)
Robert Shephard • Gallery Officer
(to 7 February 2001)
Stan Cornwell • Gallery Officer
Members
Stephen Cassidy • Manager (to 17 November 2000)
Sally Dawes • Manager (from 12 March 2001)
Louise Tawfik • Membership Services Coordinator
Karina Luzia • Membership Services Coordinator
Benjamin Stonehouse • Membership Services
Coordinator (from 4 May 2001)
Donna Chebib • Members Liaison Officer (to 7
January 2001)
Angela Finocchiaro • Members Liaison Officer
Mary O’Connell • Members Office Clerk (from 17
July 2000)
31. CONSULTANTS
During the year ended June 2001 the Museum
engaged two consultants to provide services to the
Museum for a total cost of $29,292. No consultants
were engaged for fees in excess of $30,000.
Aged analysis at the end of each quarter
APPENDIX
QUARTER
September quarter
December quarter
March quarter
June quarter
CURRENT
(IE WITHIN 30 DAYS) $
358,333
473,513
305,517
267,377
LESS THAN
30 DAYS OVERDUE $
161,658
118,723
72,280
101,210
BETWEEN 30 AND
60 DAYS OVERDUE $
134,877
47,100
57,913
33,878
BETWEEN 60 AND
90 DAYS OVERDUE $
51,463
53,695
35,733
28,634
MORE THAN 90
DAYS OVERDUE $
123,996
151,345
149,757
44,366
These amounts do not include accruals of expenses for which no claim for payment had been made at the end of the quarter.
Accounts paid on time each quarter
The Museum’s policy is to ensure that all payments to suppliers are made
QUARTER
TOTAL ACCOUNTS PAID ON TIME
TOTAL AMOUNT PAID
promptly and in line with State Government guidelines. In some instances
TARGET % ACTUAL %
$
$
certain issues relating to claims for payment require further clarification
September quarter
100
83.2
6,045,200
7,269,232
with suppliers. In such cases payment is made promptly once agreement is
December quarter
100
58.5
3,875,300
6,622,072
reached on matters requiring clarification. No interest has been paid on
March quarter
100
70.8
3,271,091
4,618,365
overdue accounts nor have any claims for interest been received.
June quarter
100
71.5
4,226,122
5,913,051
33. BUDGET ESTIMATES
Budgets for the year under review and for the next financial year are set out hereunder in accordance with section 7(1)(a)(iii) of the Annual Reports (Statutory
Bodies) Act 1984. The budgets have been prepared on an accrual basis.
EXPENDITURE
REVENUE
2000-2001
2001-2002
2000-2001
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
25,987
25,960
Operating expenses
Consolidated fund recurrent appropriation
2001-2002
Employee related
21,748
21,823
Consolidated fund capital appropriation
4,520
2,295
Other operating expenses
11,476
10,969
Sale of goods and services
4,641
4,508
Maintenance
2,896
2,977
Investment income
Depreciation and amortisation
5,292
5,239
Grants and contributions
Capital items
4,520
2,545
Other revenue
Acceptance by state of liabilities
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
45,932
43,553
TOTAL REVENUE
139
142
3,061
2,884
82
84
2,231
2,209
40,661
38,082
INDEX
- Indigenous Australians 12–13,
- people with disabilities 12, 13
- seniors (App 2)
- women (App 2)
- young people (App 2)
Customer diversity (App 2)
Customer service 20, (App 16)
Cyberworlds: computers and connections 1, 8
DesignTech 12, (App 4)
The Diary of Anne Frank 1, 3, 11
Digital imaging project 17
Director’s report 3
Disability plan (App 2)
Disability, services for people with 8, 12, 13, (App 2)
Distinguished service awards 2, (App 22)
Divisional structure 3, 7, 9
Documentation, collection 18
Donations/donors 2, 5, 17, (App 3)
Earthquake damage prevention project 18
Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces of the Choson dynasty 1, 3,
9, 10, (App 4)
EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future 9, 19
Education and/or public programs/services 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12–17,
18, 19 (App 5)
Education services 1, 2, 9, 12–15, (App 5)
Electronic records management 17
Electronic service delivery (ESD) 15–17
Energy management 19
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) 20, (App 28)
Ethnic Affairs Priorities Statement (EAPS) (App 2)
Evaluation and audience research 14, 18, 20 (App 7)
Eveleigh, storage 8, 17
Events 5, 15
Exhibitions 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10–16, (App 4)
- listing (App 4)
- off-site/travelling 11, 15, (App 4)
Factors affecting the operations of the Museum 9, 21
Federation, Centenary of 1, 3, 9, 11, 15 (Apps 4, 5)
Festival 8
Financial statements and associated letters 23–40
Financial statement format Complies with requirements
Finances: the year in review 21–22
Form of report Complies with requirements
Frank, Anne 1, 3, 8, 11, 19, (App 4)
Freedom of information (App 19)
Funding, self-generated 5, 9, 19
Funding, sources 5, 9, 19, 22
Future plans 9, 14, 15, (App 2)
Goals 2001–2002 9
GST compliance 21
Guarantee of service (App 16)
Harwood building basement storage 17
Heavy rail facility 18–19
Henry, Lucien 1, 8, 9, 11, 18, (App 4)
Highlights 1
Honorary associates (App 22)
Human resources 20 (Apps 26–30)
Identification of audited financial information Complies
Image Management System 17
Image Resource Centre 17
Imaging project, digital 17
Income generated internally 5, 9, 19
Indigenous Australian representation 12–13
Information technology 1, 2, 8, 9, 15–17, (App 8)
Information Technology Centre (ITC) 12
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INDEX
1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece
1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 19, (App 4)
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander representation 12–13
Access 9, 20, (App 2), Back cover
Acquisitions, collection 17, 18, (App 3)
Action plan for women (App 2)
Admission 4, 5, 19, Back cover
Affiliated societies (App 21)
Aims and objectives 6, 9, (App 16)
Anne Frank: a history for today 1, 3, 8, 11, 19, (App 4)
Anne Frank Reading Day 1, 11
Annual report production details IFC
Arabic-speaking Australians, heritage of 1, 8, 15, (Apps 4, 5)
Attendance 1, 10, 12, (App 1)
Audiences/customers/users/visitors – see ‘Customers…’
Audience research 14, 18, 20, (App 7)
Audit report 24
Australia Council 8
Australia innovates: an online guide to innovation in Australia’s industries 16
Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) 14, 16–17
Awards 1, 16, (App 6)
Bayagul 8, 12
Births of a nation: women, childbirth and Federation 1, 8, 9, 11, 15,
(App 4)
Board of Trustees 2, 3, 6, (Apps 14, 15)
Brand identity 1, 8
Budget estimates (App 33)
Buildings, maintenance 18–19
Castle Hill store 8, 17, 18
Catering 5, 9, 19
CD-ROM 1, 2, 10, (App 9)
Centenary of Federation 1, 3, 9, 11, 15, (Apps 4, 5)
Charter 6
Chief and Senior Executive Officers (App 27)
Citizens and the city 9, 11, (App 4)
Code of conduct (App 17)
Codex Leicester 1, 3, 9, 10, 19, (App 4)
Collaboration/consultation 14, 18, (Apps 4 and 5)
Collection 1, 9, 17–18, (App 3)
Collection development 1, 17, (App 3)
Collection management 1, 17, 18
Commercial operations 5, 19
Committees (App 15)
Complaints and compliments (App 19)
Communication technologies 10, 15–17, (App 8)
connect.nsw 15
Conservation 18
Construction 18–19
Consultants (App 31)
Consumer response 19, 20, (App 19)
Contracting and market testing policy 21
Contributing members (App 24)
Corporate governance – major features 6, (App 19)
Corporate identity 1, 8
Corporate membership 1, 3, 10, 65
Corporate plan 8
Corporate service reform 21
Corporate support 1, 2, 5, 11, 65
Courage to care 3, 11, 19, (App 4)
Cultural diversity 12–13, 15, (App 2)
Cultural Gifts Program 17, (App 3)
Customer numbers 4, 10, 12, 16, (App 1)
Customers/audiences/users/visitors 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16,
(Apps 1, 2)
- cultural diversity (App 2)
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
This index includes items which demonstrate compliance with statutory and other disclosure requirements.
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
INDEX
64
Insurance 20
Intel 1, 2
Internally-generated income 5, 9, 19
Internal operations 19–20
International Year of Volunteers 2, 13
Internships, regional 1, 14
Intranet 17
Investment performance indicators 21
Jones Street store 9, 17, 18
Lebanese- and Arab-Australian Communities Heritage Project 1, 8,
15, (Apps 4, 5)
Legislative changes (App 20)
Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester – notebook of a genius 1, 3,
9, 10, 19, (App 4)
Letter of transmission IFC
Let the Games begin… 1, 9, (App 4)
Library, research 16
Life fellows 2, (App 22)
Life members (App 24)
Loans, object 3, 10, 15
Maintenance, buildings 18, 19
Management activities and structure 6, 7
Members/membership 1, 4, 5, 9, 13, 15, (App 24)
Members events 13, (App 25)
Merchandising 5, 19
Minted, noted and stamped: images of Australia at Federation 1,
9, 11, 15, (App 4)
Mission statement IFC
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Act 1945 6, (App 19)
National Aboriginal Islander Day of Commemoration (NAIDOC) 12
National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association
(NAISDA) 13 (App 5)
National Forum of Arabic-speaking Australians 15
National Quilt Register 2, 8, 14
National Science Week 12, 14, (App 5)
NSW Government Statement of Commitment to Aboriginal people 12
NSW Office of Information Technology 15, 17
NSW regional organisations – assistance to 14, 17
Object documentation project 18
Object loans 3, 10, 15
Observatory, Sydney 13–14
Occupational health and safety 20
Off-site exhibitions and programs 13, 14–15, (App 4)
Olympic Arts Festival exhibitions and programs 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 19,
(Apps 4, 5)
Olympic torch 1, 9, (App 4)
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) 17
Online services 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15–17
Organisation chart 7
Outreach 14–15, (App 4)
Overseas travel, staff professional (App 13)
Partners/partnerships 1, 2, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 65
Payment performance indicators (App 32)
Performance indicators 8–9
Post a winner! 1, 9, (App 4)
Powernet 17
President’s foreword 2
Privacy Management Plan (App 18)
Privacy and personal information (App 18)
Production information IFC
Progress against objectives 2000–2001 8–9
Properties 1, 18–19
Publications 5, 9, (Apps 9, 10)
Public access (Apps 2, 16), Back cover
Public and/or education programs/services 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12–17, 18, 19, (App 5)
Public health research project 18
Quilts 2, 8, 14
Rail facility 18–19
Reconciliation Week 13, (App 5)
Records management system 17
Recycling 19
Regional New South Wales, services to 1, 9, 11, 14, 17, (App 4)
Regional internships 1, 14
Registration 18
Research library 16
Research and scholarship 14, 18, 20, (App 7)
Retaining wall 18–19
Review mechanisms 6
Risk management 19–20
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 12
Schools facility 1
Schools programs 12–14, (App 5)
Scholarship and research 14, 18, 20, (App 7)
Security 19–20
Seeing blind 8
Self-generated funding 5, 9, 19
Senior management structure 6
Sharing a Wailwan story 13 (App 4)
Shops 1, 5, 15, 19
Signs/signage 20
Soundbyte.org Project 16
SoundHouse 8, 12, (App 2)
Sponsors/sponsorship 1, 2, 5, 11, 65
Staff 3, 20, (Apps 10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
- development 20, (Apps 2, 29)
- list (App 30)
- numbers, equivalent full-time (App 26)
- presentations and related activities (App 11)
- professional commitments and achievements (App 12)
- professional travel (App 13)
- publications (App 10)
- SES positions (App 27)
Statement of affairs (App 19)
Storage/stores, collection 1, 8, 9, 17, 18
Strategic objectives 9
Summary of affairs (App 19)
Supporters 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 13, 65 (App 24)
Sydney 2000 Games Collection 1, 8, 18
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games 3, 9, 10
Sydney Design Week 12
Sydney Observatory 13–14, 19
Systems implementation projects (App 8)
Telescopes 13, 14
Torres Strait and/or Aboriginal representation 12–13
Tourists 8
Training 13, 20, (Apps 2, 29)
Travelling exhibitions 11, 15, (App 4)
Trends 4–5
Trustees 2, 3, 6, (Apps 14, 15)
Tyrrell Collection 18
Universal machine: computers and connections 1, 8
Users/audiences/customers/visitors – see ‘Customers…’
Virtual components 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 16
Virtual Museum Project 8, 15
Visions of a republic: the work of Lucien Henry 1, 8, 9, 11, 18,
(App 4)
Visitor research 14, 18, 20 (App 7)
Visitors/audiences/customers/users 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16,
(Apps1, 2)
Volunteers 2, 3, 5, 13, (App 23)
Waste reduction 19
Wattan 1, 8, 15, (Apps 4, 5)
Website 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15–17
Women’s action plan (App 2)
Women with wings 9, 15
The world of LEGO 19, (App 4)
Young scientist 15, (App 4)
IFC Inside front cover
The Museum acknowledges the
following companies, foundations
and trusts for their support in
2000-2001:
The Museum acknowledges the
following companies for their
ongoing sponsorship:
The Museum acknowledges the
following Corporate Members for
their support in 2000-2001:
A E Bishop Holdings Pty Limited
Arab Bank Australia
Australia-Korea Foundation
Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences and
Engineering
Boeing Australia Limited
Crome bequest
Delta Electricity
Fender Australia
Grand Marnier
Intel Corporation
Lovells Springs Pty Ltd
Microsoft Pty Ltd
News Limited
Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour
Olympic Airways S.A.
Robotic Automation Pty Ltd
Roland Australia
Samsung Electronics Australia
SBS Television
Singapore Airlines
TM
SoundHouse Music Alliance
Sydney Organising Committee for
the Olympic Games
The Sun Herald
Talkradio 2UE 954 AM
The Gordon Darling Foundation
The Myer Foundation
TNT Australia Pty Ltd
Waterford Wedgwood
Australia Limited
Principal Sponsors
Dick Smith
State Rail Authority of
New South Wales
Founding Corporate Members
Cable & Wireless Optus Limited
Express Data
Fujitsu Australia Limited
Harris Technology Pty Ltd
Intel Australia Pty Ltd
Macquarie Bank Limited
Microsoft Pty Ltd
Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd
NSW Department of Information
Technology and Management
Sponsors
Coles Myer Ltd
IBM Australia Limited
Nine Network Australia
NRMA Limited
Victa
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
T H E M U S E U M G R A T E F U L LY A C K N O W L E D G E S T H E
PRESIDENTS
’ F O R E WO R D
FOLLOWING SUPPORTERS
Senior Corporate Partners
Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd
Applied Resolution Technologies
Educational Experience
Intergraph Computer Systems
Corporate Partners
Ansett Australia
Landmark Corporate Members
Arab Bank Australia
Defence Community
Organisation - Liverpool
Dunlop Flooring Australia
Harbourside Shopping Centre
HMAS Watson
Lake Technology
Leyton Consulting Pty Ltd
Minale Bryce Design Strategy
Mincom Limited
Ordal Australia Pty Ltd
Ross Simpson Engineering Pty Ltd
Royal Doulton Australia Pty Ltd
Steele Barracks
Swarovski International
(Aust) Pty Ltd
Sodexho Food Management Services
Sydney Institute of Technology
Taxation Institute of Australia
The Fourth Wave Australia Pty Ltd
The RACI Inc., NSW Branch
Victoria Barracks Regimental Trust
Warman International Ltd
SUPPORTERS
65
Principal Benefactors
Fujitsu General (Aust) Pty Ltd
HPM Industries Pty Ltd
Lake Technology Ltd
NHK Technical Services, Inc.
Royal Australian Chemical Institute
(NSW)
Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric
Authority
The Institution of Engineers,
Australia (Sydney Division)
Yamaha Music Australia Pty Ltd
SYDNEY OBSERVATORY
Observatory Hill Watson Road
The Rocks
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 Harris Street Ultimo
NSW 2007
Phone: (02) 9217 0111
Open: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
every day except Christmas Day;
school holidays open:
9.30 am to 5.00 pm
Powerhouse Infoline
(for information about what’s on)
phone: (02) 9217 0444
Education services bookings and
enquiries: phone: 9217 0222;
fax: 9217 0441;
email: edserv@ phm.gov.au
Web site: http://www.phm.gov.au
ADMISSION CHARGES
Adults $8.00
Children (5 to 15 years) $2.00
Powerhouse Members, under 5s,
Australian Seniors cardholders
and pensioners free
Concessions (students, Social
Security and Veterans Affairs
cardholders) $3.00
Family groups (two adults with
up to three children or one adult
with up to five children) $18.00
Group concessions
(over 20 adults) $6.00 per person
Booked guided Powerhouse school
members $1.00 per student
Free admission on first Saturday
of each month
Members of International Council
of Museums (ICOM) free
Members of Museums Australia
Inc free
Additional admission charges
apply to some temporary
exhibitions
Additional discounts may apply,
for example to selected tourist
organisations, associations, for
some travel packages and other
promotions - for details phone
9217 0100
Phone: (02) 9217 0485
Open daily: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Open nightly - bookings are
essential - phone 9217 0485
Winter: two sessions per night
6.15 pm and 8.15 pm
Summer: one session per night
8.15 pm or 8.30 pm
Closed Christmas Day
ADMISSION CHARGES - NIGHT
Night visits include a guided
telescope tour/viewing and
seminar. If weather conditions
are not suitable for the telescope
viewing, a planetarium show is
presented.
Adults $10.00
Children (5 to 15 years),
concessions (students, Social
Security and Veterans Affairs
cardholders, Australian
Seniors cardholders, aged
pensioners) $5.00
Family groups (two adults with
up to three children or one adult
with up to five children) $25.00
Powerhouse Members: adults
$5.00; children/concessions
$3.00; family $15.00
Additional discounts may apply,
for example to selected tourist
organisations, associations,
for some travel packages and
other promotions - for details
phone 9217 0485
ADMINISTRATION
Powerhouse Museum
500 Harris Street Ultimo
NSW 2007
Postal address: PO Box K346
Haymarket NSW 1238
Office hours: 8.30 am to 5.00 pm
Monday to Friday
Phone: (02) 9217 0111
Fax: (02) 9217 0333
MEMBERS ORGANISATION
Powerhouse Museum Members
500 Harris St Ultimo NSW 2007
Phone: 9217 0600
Members Lounge open: 10.00 am
to 4.45 pm every day (except
Christmas Day)
Admission charges are as at
30 June 2001
ADMISSION CHARGES - DAY
Informal self-guided Museum
visits are free
Booked guided tours (groups):
$4.00 per person
Booked guided Powerhouse
Member school
tours free
Additional discounts may
apply, for example to
selected tourist organisations,
associations, for some travel
packages and other promotions for details phone 9217 0485
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