Once a coal-fired power station that supplied Sydney’s new electric trams, this contemporary museum is now home to more than half a million objects of national and global significance in fashion, transport, innovation, the industrial revolution, and design. See architect Jørn Utzon’s original drawings for the Sydney Opera House, iconic fashion collections, steam engines, vintage planes, space capsules and more.
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