The Powerhouse Museum has hand-picked 1001 items from its collection of more than half a million items, to bring together an exhibition of Australian icons.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Mark Sutcliffe signed up to volunteer as a dancer in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, he had no idea the costumes that were part of the final ceremony would go on to be treasured objects in one of the nation’s most extensive museum collections.sequence, and the pink showgirl outfit that Kylie Minogue wowed audiences with during the closing night ceremony, are part of a collection he helped curate at the Powerhouse Museum.
Eva Czernis-Ryl, Mark Sutcliffe and Ronan Sulich part of the curatorial team led by Leo Schofield at the Powerhouse Museum’s 1001 Remarkable objects exhibition, with the Kylie Minogue showgirl outfit.He and the curatorial team, led by former Powerhouse trustee Leo Schofield, spent two years trawling through more than half a million objects that are part of the museum’s collection to create this exhibition, which includes objects that have never been on display before.
, and the aircraft undercarriage from Lady Southern Cross, the only surviving fragment of aircraft in which Sir Charles Kingsford Smith died on his ill-fated 1935 voyage. “We tried to capture important moments in our cultural history, from the Sydney Opera House opening, to the Sydney Mardi Gras, toAdvertisementTwelve giant kewpie dolls made by James Colmer and Lara Denman featured in the Love is in the Air segment, along with dancer Mark Sutcliffe at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony. One of them greets visitors at the start of the Powerhouse exhibition.
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