Powerhouse Parramatta will host a twenty-three-day festival to celebrate one of the world’s most significant new museum projects, and it’s five ground-breaking exhibitions, opening its doors to the public on Saturday 7 November 2026.

INAUGURAL EXHIBTIONS

• The Dark: An immersive exhibition created for children aged 4 – 12 years old, reflecting on times they’ve met The Dark. Enter the exhibition through a crystal tunnel inspired by a cast of a meteorite in the Powerhouse Collection.
• Es Devlin: The Turning is an exhibition of five major works by British artist Es Devlin whose genre-defying work ranges from sculpture to film, architecture, language and performance. The exhibition continues Devlin’s interest in the collective imagination, from a mirror maze drawing symmetries between the bronchial trees in our lungs and the trees in our environment to a collaborative, evolving installation where audiences are invited to draw portraits of a stranger.
• Overflow: Overflow is a First Nations-led exhibition grounded in the living principles of Water Country. Featuring 7 community commissions developed with Aboriginal-led organisations across New South Wales, Overflow shares enduring practices that extend care to saltwater and freshwater systems.
• Task Eternal: One of the most ambitious aerospace exhibitions ever staged, Task Eternal will explore the intersection of design, innovation and technology and trace humanity’s quest to defy gravity, take flight and journey into the sky. Highlights will include the historic Qantas Avro 504k aircraft; original drawings of flying machines by Leonardo da Vinci; and a NASA Moon rock, the largest collected during the Apollo missions.
• The Mall: Examines the history, evolution and cultural significance of the shopping mall, exploring Australian and global innovation across architecture, design, technology, engineering and fashion. Key objects include the archive of Austrian-American architect and urban planner Victor Gruen; the iconic Levi’s 501 jeans worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs; an autonomous ballet of warehouse robots by Japanese artistyang02; and a contemporary reimagining of Southwest Sydney’s Roselands Raindrop Fountain by industrial design studio Vert.