Museum "Power" is the main unit of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney. Another branch of the Museum – Sydney Observatory. Despite the fact that this Museum is often described as the scientific, in its subsoil collected quite a variety of collections, among which are "Applied Art", "Science", "Communication", "Transportation", "Media", "Computer Technology", "Space", "Steam engines", etc.

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

Beginning history Museum takes on the Sydney International Exhibition, held in 1879, some of the exhibits which were the basis of the technological Museum. While the collection was housed in a Sydney Hospital in the same room with the morgue, and in 1893, the Museum moved into its own building, where he remained until 1988.

Today among the exhibits of the Museum you can see unique things – for example, the world's oldest operating steam engine, created in 1785, and the first steam locomotive built in the state of New South Wales in 1854. And, perhaps the most popular exhibit of the Museum is the model of the Strasbourg Clock, built in 1887 25-year-old from Sydney watchmaker Richard Smith. This working model of the famous Strasbourg astronomical clock. Smith himself never saw the original, and his model was created for the brochure that describe the timekeeping and astronomical clock functions. The exhibition "Space technology" presented the model of the space Shuttle cockpit in full size. Much love children enjoyed the exhibition "Experiments" in which with the help of interactive displays you can explore various aspects of magnetism, electricity, light, motion and t.d. For example, you can learn how to make chocolate, and try it on each of the four stages of fabrication.