Powerhouse Castle Hill — Attraction in Sydney

Friendly and helpful staff and there are some very interesting things to look at - however it’s all look, no touch. None of the exhibits can be ‘experienced’ and my six year old and I were in and out in less than half an hour.

Even if 5 or 10% of exhibits were open for visitors to interact with would be great, but there are none…it’s much like how museums were run 20-30 years ago. If a tram, or a bus or a train could be opened up for people to walk through and sit on and interact with (like the exhibits at the Pyrmont Powerhouse museum) it would make it much, much more interesting. There were ample staff manning the kids craft table - one of them could be redeployed to man an open exhibit if there was concern about the...

I don’t recommend the museum for children at all, we had 3 young children with us, quite well behaved who love museums and we were followed by someone the WHOLE time. Literally a worker on our tail following us as we walked around and watching our every single move. (Some even peeping around corners, trying not to make obvious - but was very obvious) I felt so so uneasy. I didn’t notice it at first but as we continued on into other rooms I started noticing we were being watched like hawks. An employee on every single corner just watching us! - staff were rude, and overall the museum was a...

Disappointing. Maybe my expectations were too high to start with. We've always enjoyed the powerhouse in Ultimo. Castle Hill is described as the "storehouse" and that's pretty much what you get. Very little interaction and limited information of items. There are a number of light aircraft hanging from the roof, however nothing we could find about their history. The collection is quite haphazard with no flow. The one saving grace was the Mars Rover talk which we learnt a few interesting things. If it wasn't for that it would have been a one star event. At least...