The Museum of Industrial Sciences closed and moved to Parramatta, but will have a role at either site.
The New South Wales government has turned its direct decision to move the Powerdoleading Museum from Sydney more than five years after the announcement.
The Ultimo Industrial Science Museum in Sydney closed and moved to Parramatta, however, it will reopen and could play a role with the planned hot Powerdoleading facility for west Sydney.
The relocation was expected to charge between $420 million and $645 million, with the gradual closure of Ultimo’s site scheduled to begin on July 1.
On Saturday, New South Wales Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian and State Treasurer Dominic Perrottet described Parramatta’s power plant as the “crown jewel” of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
The existing museum in Ultimo would complement the center of Parramatta, Said Perrottet.
“The most critical thing is that the destination country reached is the right resolution for the people of our state,” Perrottet told reporters on Ultimo on Saturday. “In a Covid world, we had to look for new tactics to get things done.”
“We will have a global elegance facility for the people of Western Sydney, an installation of world elegance here in Ultimo, what our other Americans deserve here in our state.”
In February 2015, a month before the New South Wales election, Prime Minister Mike Baird announced questionable plans to move Powerhouse.
But the treasurer noted the announcement in May that the state government’s infralayout pipeline was more than $100 billion. At the time, he said the executive was “considering features to help Ultimo’s artistic community.”
“At that time, we issued the verdict to be open to long-term use here at Ultimo,” Perrottet said Saturday. “Now, the executive has made the general decision to steer this site directly to the people of central Sydney who have this perfect cultural facility here in Sydney.”
Berejiklian said: “This will allow us to produce a phenomenal experience in the fields of technology, science, engineering and design in two main locations.”
The government had planned to sell Ultimo’s site for up to $19 million, with the parramatta Museum’s design budget.
Parramatta Mayor Bob Dwyer said he was pleased that the executive demonstrated that he was “committed to creating a museum of world elegance in Parramatta.”
“The direct decision to renovate the Powerdoleading Museum in Ultimo does not jeopardize the investment we were promised for an iconic cultural establishment in west Sydney,” Dwyer said.
Sydney’s independent MP Alex Greenwich said the debate “has never been about Sydney compared to Parramatta.”
“The plant’s passionate netpainting crusade says a lot about its special importance to Sydneysans,” Greenwich said.
Public Service Association Secretary General Stewart Little welcomed the decision.
“This suggests that a lot of jobs are being saved in the cultural sector,” he said. “It also suggests that Australians can enjoy the cultural heritage that the plant has to offer.”
The new museum in Sydney’s West is expected to create more than 1, one hundred design jobs, 2,400 indirect jobs, and employ many other Americans once opened.
The state government said last year that Parramatta’s Powerdoleading Campus was due to open in 2023.