This provides a visual map of the Transport exhibition gallery. It helps teachers highlight major themes and key objects to students before the visit. Most of the key objects are hyperlinked to the Museum Online Collection Database for easy reference. It also feature relevant teaching and learning resources that are available online.

1. Transport exhibition
pre-visit exhibition walkthrough

2. Transport exhibition walkthrough
Support material developed for teachers
to prepare students’ visit of the Transport exhibition
Transport
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3. Honda Insight
Transport exhibition has 6
sections:
1. Moving the crowd
2. Up and over
3. Setting your own pace
4. Inside information
5. Alternative transport
Mawson’s
sledge
Entrance from
the Turbine
Hall

4. Signal box & transport social
history display such as:
C class
a. Travel! poster
electric b. Toy cars, ships and planes
Indicator
tram
Board
Loco No
1243 Governor’s
carriage
horse
omnibus
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.

5. Horse
omnibus
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.

6. 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.

7. Air
ambulance
VH-AMB
Catalina Flying Boat
Cirrus moth
Microlight
biplane
skycraft
Bleriot XI
monoplane
2. Up and over focuses on aviation as a way of overcoming isolation and distance.

8. ‘Dux bicycle’ replaced by ‘Mawson’s sledge’
Bugatti
racing car
This car won the 1929 Australian Grand Prix
at Phillip Island.
3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport,
such as bicycles and cars.

9. Sedan chair
Bradbury Bugatti
motorcycle & racing car
Rickshaw Tricycle
sidecar
3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport,
such as bicycles and cars.

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

11. Hansom cab
motorcycles
Spring cart
3. Setting your own pace traces the development of privately owned forms of transport,
such as bicycles and cars.

12. 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.

13. Sectioned 1939
Chevrolet body
Solar powered automobile
'Solar Resource' Sectioned Beyer Garratt
locomotive model 6001
4. Inside information lets you see inside transport technology and how it works

14. Solar Sailor Ferry model
Honda Insight hybrid car
5. Alternative transport links the Transport and EcoLogic exhibitions

15. 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.

16. Online resources
1. 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 programs
1. 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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