The new Powerhouse Parramatta will open with the largest exhibition space in the country, with a focus on humanity’s mission into outer space.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cutting edge technology, spaceship parts and the history of space exploration will feature in the two-year exhibition at the new western Sydney museum.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, dubbed Task Eternal, will be housed in an 18-metre high space over 2,200 square metres in which visitors will ascend through four sections.<\/p>\n
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The Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta will open in late 2026. (ABC News: Anton Rose, Monish Nand)<\/p>\n
Powerhouse CEO Lisa Havilah <\/a>says the exhibition will feature elements of science, technology and creativity.<\/p>\n “Task Eternal is an exhibition about our human ambition to get into the sky,” Ms Havilah told 702 ABC Radio Sydney.<\/p>\n “You’ll move through the exhibition, but you’ll also move through and up and around a tower and experience stories and objects and artworks along the way.” A prototype of the Roo-ver will feature in Task Eternal.\u00a0 (Supplied: Powerhouse)<\/p>\n Among the displays will be Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg’s<\/a> spacesuit \u2014 the first time it will be available to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n It will also include a prototype of the Roo-ver lunar probe <\/a>which is being developed for a mission to the moon with the Australian Space Agency at the end of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n