📋 Tender Overview
ScopeThe business case examined three options with Option three the most extensive option being selected as preferred with a nominal cost of construction of approximately 825 million. It includes18000 sqm of exhibition and public spaces making it the largest museum in NSW30m wide planetarium with ultra-high resolution 3D video and audio anddedicated play areas and education labs.The new museum will be part of the broader Parramatta Arts and Cultural Precinct on the Parramatta River that will include event spaces cafes the museum shop bars shopping and retail and residential developments.The current Powerhouse Museum site in Ultimo will continue to host an arts and cultural precinct including a new design and fashion museum and a Broadway-style lyric theatre. The final business case for the Ultimo site has not yet been completed.In January 2019 it was also announced that the newly built museum will housethe 135 year old collection from the Museum of Applied Arts and SciencesAustralias largest planetarium andgalleries to exhibit visiting international collections.The Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo will stay open until mid-2020 when its staged closure will begin. The new museum is expected to open in 2023.
