We have just launched the website (and the physical site too) for our new Powerhouse Discovery Centre located in Castle Hill.
The PDC at Castle Hill dramatically increases the proportion of objects available for the public to look at (up from the museum world standard 5% ot around 40%!). In the warehouse spaces visitors can browse drawers and storage racks, and then go to a series of internet-connected kiosks to look up more information using a slightly enhanced version of our collection database.
In building the Castle Hill site we have added several thousand new high quality images to the collection database. Have a look either using the Castle Hill OPAC or the Powerhouse Museum’s main OPAC. Both use the same data source, the main difference being that the Castle Hill version has a early iteration of a a forthcoming visual browser we are building (which is highly dependent on colour images!).