Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347139

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0347139

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Empowering Australia: Collecting and Interpreting the Material Culture of Australian Technology in New South Wales, 1880-1972. In Australian social history, the industrial museum occupies an important but largely forgotten place. Today, Sydney's exciting Powerhouse Museum is increasingly conscious of its legacy and lineage, dating from its creation as the Technological and Sanitary Museum of 1880. Nevertheless, much of the material culture of manufacture and innovation that lies in its collections remains uninterpreted and inaccessible to historians and the public. This project seeks to 'recover' the past of the Museum, and its role in Sydney's heritage of research, design and the applied arts; and to demonstrate the dynamic relevance of historical research to the Museum's present and forward plannning.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-2003

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $142,414.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Museum Studies | History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Heritage not elsewhere classified |

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