The Hyde Park Barracks is one of Australia's most important convict sites. This new exhibition explores the convict experience, from transportation to forging a new life in the colony of New South Wales. It reveals the extraordinary contribution convict workers made to the building of early Sydney. Learn about the everyday lives of convicts who passed through the doors of the barracks between 1819 and 1848.

Get your hands-on cracking contraptions at Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention exhibition now on at the Powerhouse Museum. Step into the home of Wallace & Gromit and play with their incredible inventions like the Blend-o-matic and Tellyscope II. See smashing ideas from Aussie inventors, an implant that helps people hear and even a mousetrap making machine. Plus, find ways to create your own brilliant ideas and how to protect them.