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3 unusual facts about Powerhouse Museum


Akira Isogawa

A number of his lavish costume creations while a student survive in acatalogued retrospective of the RAT Party era kept at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

Sydney underground railways

The former railway from the Powerhouse Museum to Lilyfield, including Pyrmont and Glebe tunnels, has been converted to form part of the Inner West Light Rail line from Central station.

One runs underneath Railway Square, between the Central station railway yards and the Powerhouse Museum, the others underneath Pyrmont and Glebe.


Pamela Freeman

She returned to Australia in 1984 and worked as a scriptwriter for the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, moving from there to ABC TV’s Children’s and Education Department in 1987.

Rat Parties

As a young fashion student and a close friend of Vidgen, Akira Isogawa contributed to many of the lavish costumes that now survive in a well catalogued retrospective of the RAT era kept at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.


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