Transport exhibition pre-visit exhibition walkthrough

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Support material developed for teachers to prepare students’ visit of the Transport exhibition

Transport exhibition walkthrough

Transport

1. Moving the crowd 2. Up and over3. Setting your own pace4. Inside information5. Alternative transport

Entrance from the Turbine Hall

Honda Insight

Transport exhibition has 6 sections:

Maw

son’s

sledge

1. Moving the crowd is to your left as you come through the Turbine Hall. It looks at forms of public transport, from the past to the present day.

horse omnibus

C class electric

tram Indicator Board

Loco No 1243 Governor’s

carriage

Signal box & transport social history display such as:a. Travel! posterb. Toy cars, ships and planes

Sydney’s main form of urban transport between the 1860s and 1890s.The horse omnibus could seat 11 passengers inside with roof seating accessible by a steel ladder

or curved stairway.

Horse omnibus

Central Station Indicator Board

The indicator board stood for 76 years on the main assembly platform of Sydney Terminal Station (Central Station) displaying departure times, platform numbers and stopping patterns.

2. Up and over focuses on aviation as a way of overcoming isolation and distance.

Air ambulance VH-AMB

Catalina Flying Boat

Bleriot XI monoplane

Cirrus moth biplaneMicrolight

skycraft

‘Dux bicycle’ replaced by ‘Mawson’s sledge’

Bugatti racing car

3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars.

This car won the 1929 Australian Grand Prixat Phillip Island.

3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars.

Bugatti racing car Rickshaw

Sedan chair

TricycleBradbury motorcycle & sidecar

You will find the penny-farthing interactive to your right as you come through the Turbine Hall.

Penny-farthing

motorcyclesHansom cab

Spring cart

3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport, such as bicycles and cars.

Sydney hansom cab

It was pulled by one horse and could take two passengers. The driver sat high at the rear of the cab. It is an example of a popular design built in Sydney from the 1880s to about 1915.

4. Inside information lets you see inside transport technology and how it works

Sectioned 1939 Chevrolet body

Sectioned Beyer Garratt locomotive model 6001

Solar powered automobile 'Solar Resource'

5. Alternative transport links the Transport and EcoLogic exhibitions

Honda Insight hybrid car

Solar Sailor Ferry model

Solar powered automobile 'Solar Resource'

A solar powered car built in a Sydney backyard for the 1987 World Solar Challenge race, over a distance of 3,005 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide. 'Solar Resource‘ finished in seventh place

overall, but it gained first place in the Private Entry category.

Online resources1. Transport exhibition, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/transport.asp

2. Transport exhibition teachers notes, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/education/teachersnotes/transport.pdf

3. Locomotive No. 1 exhibition, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/locomotive1.asp

4. Railways in Australia and great train journeys, http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/railways/

5. Early Australian aviation, http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/aviation/

6. History of Rail in Australia, http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/history.aspx

Relevant education programs1. Marvellous Machines Drawing Adventure teacher-guided program for years 3 & 4

2. Transport gallery tour for years 1 to 6

3. Technology & Innovation: Design and Make workshop for years 5 & 6

Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum collection

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