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Powerhouse Museum Annual Report 2002 museum of applied arts & sciences incorporating the powerhouse museum & sydney observatory 2002 – 2003 annual report annual report and beyond. and history for the people of new south wales science, design that explore programs exhibitions and collections and presents the powerhouse museum develops the powerhouse will further its reputation as a museum that celebrates human creativity and innovation in ways that engage, inform and inspire diverse audiences. contents 01 highlights 02 president’s foreword 03 director’s report 04 mission and structure 05 organisation chart 08 museum honours 09 access – on site, off site, online, in print 09 evaluation and audience research 09 exhibitions on site 10 sydney observatory 10 education and visitor services 11 indigenous programs 11 migration heritage centre at the powerhouse 11 exhibitions off site 12 regional services 12 collection loans 12 international connections 12 online – www.phm.gov.au 13 australian museums and galleries online (amol) 13 in print – publications 13 behind the scenes 14 research and scholarship 14 the collection 14 collection management 15 collection storage 15 properties 15 risk management and insurance 15 energy and waste management 15 information technology and knowledge management 16 organisation development The Hon Bob Carr MP 16 corporate services Premier, Minister for the Arts and 16 human resources Minister for Citizenship 16 equal employment opportunity Parliament House 16 occupational health and safety Sydney NSW 2000 16 volunteers and work placement Dear Minister 17 commercial operations On behalf of the Board of Trustees and in accordance 17 marketing and media with the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 17 members and the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, we submit 17 sponsors and partnerships for presentation to Parliament the annual report 18 trends of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences for the 22 financial report year ending 30 June 2003. 40 appendices Yours Sincerely Dr Nicholas G Pappas Dr Anne Summers AO President Deputy President ISSN 0312-6013 © Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences 2003. Compiled by Mark Daly, MAAS. Design and production by designplat4m 02 9299 0429 Printing by Mutual Printing. Print run – 750. External costs – $12,200 Available at www.phm.gov.au Photography by MAAS photography staff: Sotha Bourn, Geoff Friend, Jean-Francois Lanzarone, Marinco Kojdanovski and Sue Stafford (unless otherwise credited) highlights for 02-03 +The Museum provided services to over + Key acquisitions included the Montgomery +The Museum’s marketing campaign for 2 million users in person and online. Total wool collection of 5,000 samples dating Spinning around: 50 years of Festival on-site visitor numbers of over 660,000 from 1886 to 2000, an 1855 silver Records won both the State and National were the largest in nearly a decade. candelabrum by English maker Robert Arts categories of the 2002 Australian Garrard II and an 1869 Australian made Marketing Institute Awards for Marketing + Star Wars: the Magic of Myth became the viola by John Devereux, purchased with Excellence and the Tourism Product most visited and highest revenue earning funds donated by Robert Albert AO. Marketing category at the 2002 NSW exhibition ever presented by the Museum. Tourism Awards for Business Excellence. It attracted over 200,000 visitors and saw +Regional services from the Museum Member numbers nearly double. More included touring exhibitions to 25 venues + In the Museums Australia Publication than 15,000 students visited the exhibition attracting nearly 400,000 visitors and a Design Awards the Museum won as part of their education program and development of the partnership with the Website category for 1000 years of 60,000 adults and children participated in Maitland City Council for an increased the Olympic Games: treasures of public and holiday programs. The exhibition presence at the Hunter Valley Steamfest. ancient Greece. attracted a record level of sponsors + Six internships and eight workshops were +The monorail station adjacent to the and sponsorship. delivered for regional museum and cultural Museum was renamed Powerhouse +A new long-term exhibition opened, heritage workers, and training programs Museum station from July 2002. What’s in Store? Shopping in Australia developed with organisations across +Visitor facilities were improved with a 1880-1930, and the Australian the State. new Espresso Bar opened on Level 4 and Communities Gallery was created to + Unique visitors to the website the relocation and refurbishment of the present changing exhibitions exploring the www.phm.gov.au rose to over 100,000 a Members’ Lounge. history, culture and contemporary month to reach an annual 960,000, almost experience of different communities. double that of the previous year. +The 3-D Space Theatre at Sydney + Key online developments included the Observatory provided visitors with the Sydney 2000 Games Collection, where opportunity to experience virtual travel to design aspects are highlighted through Mars and across the Universe. case studies on the look and image of the Games; and the Tyrrell Photography Collection, online a selection of images from the studios of Charles Kerry and Henry King two of Sydney’s leading experience contemporary photographers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. +The Migration Heritage Centre relocated to the Powerhouse from the Premier’s Department, gaining access to the expertise of curatorial, conservation, education and Movable Heritage NSW staff. The Centre will be maintained as an independent unit with its own Panel of Advisors. exploring the history, culture and culture exploring the history, museum of applied arts & sciences incorporating top left Star Wars attracted over 200,000 visitors the powerhouse top right 1869 viola by John Devereux, museum & sydney Powerhouse collection observatory bottom Black Flamingo cocktail hat by Philip Treacy, annual report Powerhouse collection 2002-2003 + 01 2 million users After four years as a Trustee of the The Powerhouse is not only a repository of Powerhouse Museum, I was honoured to our material heritage, but also of our be appointed President of the Board of intellectual heritage. It is a place which Trustees in January 2003. The position celebrates ideas and their realisation. It is brings with it further opportunity to very much a 21st century institution – contribute the Museum’s growth and reflecting on and interpreting the history of evolution. I look forward to meeting the our development and the possibilities for ongoing challenges we face, including our future. Our ongoing challenge is to addressing the issue of making the devise more innovative and inclusive ways Museum more accessible to its potential of achieving our goals and serving those audiences. who turn to us for information and inspiration. While the achievements and developments As President I am ably assisted in my duties of the past year are many, we should never by my fellow Trustees, along with the stop striving to do better. After the great skilled management and staff of the president’s foreword president’s success of Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, Museum led by Director Dr Kevin Fewster. we are developing one of our largest-ever I thank them sincerely for their support, exhibitions curated in-house, Sport: more advice and expertise. I take this opportunity then heroes and legends. In co-operation to acknowledge the important contribution with Museum Victoria, we are also of the outgoing President from 1998 to developing the exhibition Our place: 2002, Marco Belgiorno-Zegna AM. An Indigenous Australia now to send to the enduring legacy of his Presidency is the Athens Olympics in 2004. It will be the Museum’s new visual identity, introduced in largest international exhibition in the Athens 2000, that clearly positions the Powerhouse Cultural Olympiad program and will Museum as a museum of science + design. represent Australia’s cultural contribution to I also welcome Trisha Dixon and Mark the 2004 Games. Bouris who both joined the Board of Trustees during the year and brought considerable expertise to it. As ever, the Powerhouse has been assisted in delivery and development by the contributions of many friends and supporters. In 2002, we honoured three of our long-term supporters as Life Fellows of the Museum for their patronage and generosity. Ken Done, Alastair Morrison and Dick Smith have each enriched the collection, programs and profile of the Museum over many years. Finally, the continued support and interest of those beyond the Museum is always encouraging to us and, hopefully, enriching to them as they become an integral part of the preservation and interpretation of our heritage. My thanks therefore go to the Museum’s numerous sponsors, donors, volunteers and members, without whom intellectual heritagewe could never realise our vision. Board of Trustees L-R top Dr Nicholas G Pappas, Dr Nicholas G Pappas President; Dr Anne Summers, Deputy President; Mark Bouris; Trisha Dixon; Susan Gray President L-R bottom Professor Ron Johnston; Janet McDonald; Board of Trustees Anthony Sukari, Kylie Winkworth Senior management group-opposite L-R Dr Kevin Fewster, Director; Jennifer Sanders, Deputy Director; Michael Landsbergen, Associate Director; Kevin Sumption, Associate Director; Mark Goggin, Associate Director + 02 Museum’s growth and evolution growth Museum’s director’s report It is particularly pleasing to report that the If space fiction drew the crowds at the Powerhouse Museum reached its largest Powerhouse, space fact brought increasing audience ever during 2002-03. Through the numbers of visitors to Sydney Observatory. provision of programs and services on site, In January 2003 we opened a new off site and online over two million people 3-D Space Theatre which significantly across Sydney, NSW and beyond linked into broadened our programming possibilities. the Museum’s activities. This is a great Concurrent with this development, the achievement against the first year of our Observatory was restructured as an new Strategic Plan 2002-2005. Good independent department, thus giving it a progress was made in the year across all clearer voice both within the Museum and five areas of the Plan.
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