powerhouse discovery centre

My boyfriend and I went to the opening of the Powerhouse Discovery Centre at Castle Hill today. It's basically a warehouse where they store all the exhibits that aren't shown at the museum itself. Apparently the warehouses have been there for a while, but today, it was finally opened to the public. I love museums. I can spend the whole day there looking at all the different exhibits.

The reason why we were there was because my boyfriend was on St John Ambulance duty. So while he was busy handing out band-aids, I was having a great time looking at all the exhibits. I came across a display of really old slide rules which I found very interesting. I never had the opportunity to learn how to use a slide rule. I remember playing around with one in high school, but I've always trusted my Sharp calculator. Something about moving lines and moving bits and pieces so they line up doesn't strike me as being very accurate. But I could be wrong. There were also circular ones and even a spiral one called "Moore's Lightning Calculator" I'm guessing the manual for that is slightly more intense than your average bedtime reading books.

Another display that I came across was the prototype designs for the Sydney Olympic Games Torch. So glad they chose the one that they did. No offence, but the others were quite dull. One of the foam prototype looked more like a dinosaur bone than an Olympic Torch. Overall, it was quite impressive. Glad they finally opened it to the public.