If you are a lover of science and technology (especially the modern gadgetry) – or if you are touring Sydney with your young ones, be sure to give the powerhouse museum a visit.

It should not be hard for you to locate the Powerhouse museum, as it is a well known location in Sydney that almost every Sydney resident should surely know. In case you are at a location from where you can easily walk to the Powerhouse museum, the place to find it is in Ultimo at the edge of the Darling Harbor – and the road to take you there is ‘Harris Street’.

Once you are inside the Powerhouse museum, you will be in for a truly great treat – and you can sure that you will get to see at least one gadget or technology you have never seen. If you are visiting with your young one, be ready to answer the tons of question they are sure to bombard you regarding this or that thing they set their eyes on in the museum. The Powerhouse Museum is not just a place for kids only though – there is pretty much something for everyone.

Depending on the time of the year you happen to be visiting the Powerhouse Museum, you will be sure to find one or another exhibition – from the purely science oriented exhibitions to the technology themed exhibitions to the space exploration themed exhibitions. And for things that can’t be physically exhibited in the museum, there is always the opportunity to get to watch them on the museums three dimensional displays which simulate reality as much as realistically possible – and which make the scenes being depicted truly vivid.

Another good thing about Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum is that it created (both architecturally and on the programs run there) in a family friendly way – such that it makes a truly good place to go for a family Saturday or Sunday out.

People who get to visit the Powerhouse Museum describe their experience there as anything from truly educative to highly informative to great fun. And as it turns out, the exhibits at the Powerhouse Museum are truly educative in their nature and you are bound to learn something or two on your trip there. And the various exhibitions held at the Powerhouse museum can be truly informative – giving visitors real good insights into recent technologies and the direction in which technology is taking us.

If you happen to be visiting the Powerhouse Museum with your kids, and the visit happens to coincide with the school holidays, then you can be sure that your kids will get to benefit from the extra special programs that are developed specially for kids in the school holiday months.

All in all, the Powerhouse Museum is Sydney is truly a powerhouse in scientific and technological exhibits. It is also makes a good place to take your kid, if your really want to motivate your kid towards a career in technology without having to lecture them about the benefits of science and technology – because with the stuff exhibited at the Powerhouse museum, a kid is likely to develop an interest on how to make such stuff – and thus ‘naturally’ develop an interest in a science or technology career.

If you are visiting Sydney with your young ones, there will be plenty for them to enjoy and do, all mainly depending on your kid’s interests. For the lovers of water, Sydney has some great places they can go swimming – or water surfing for the more adventurous type.

And if your kids love wildlife there is plenty of native wildlife to watch in Sydney too and perhaps a good place to start a wildlife themed tour of Sydney is at the Taroga park zoo – where you kids will get the opportunity to come up close with some of those famed unique creatures of Australia. Located on Bradley’s head road, Taroga Zoo Park is open everyday between nine in the morning and five in the evening. It charges a small fee for its maintenance – but the fun you stand to get from a visit to the Taroga Zoo Park more than makes up for little fee charged for entry. Fatherdale Wildlife Park is yet another great haunt for kids who love wildlife.

Then there are the amusement parks, and if these are what bring joy to your kids, then Sydney is just the place to be. This is because the city is home to a number of remarkable fun parks that your kids will surely enjoy. If this is your kid’s joy, you can try the city’s Luna Park – at Milsons Point – which interestingly, opens between ten in the morning and 10 at night during the weekends and school holidays – and which offers something to indulge almost every kid’s interests. Centennial Park at Oxford Street Paddington is yet another amusement park in Sydney – and unlike Luna Park, Centennial Park is open daily, though the hours tend to change from season to season. Your kiddies can also go horse riding here at Centennial Park at Oxford Street in addition to the occasional nature walk – to mention but a few of the wide choice of activities available from here.

Yet if your kids are museum lovers Sydney offers a number of museums – including hands on Museums, for you to choose from – again depending on their interests. For lovers of history, for instance, there is the Hyde Park Barracks Museum at Queen’s Square, Macquarie Street which opens daily between about nine in the morning and five in the evening. Another good museum in Sydney is the Powerhouse Museum at 500 Harris Street – and this opens between about ten in the morning and five in the evening. But unlike the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, the Powerhouse Museum at 500 Harris Street is more about the present than about the past – what with its extensive gadgetry of touch screen computers, audio phones and the likes.

Yet the Sydney beaches make yet another popular haunt for kids in the city. Take for instance Bondi Beach, which is a popular place for kids to go surfing and the whole range of beach activities which are so much fun for kids – or the Manly beach, which is a bit far from Sydney’s central business district, but which is conveniently accessible by ferry.

Sydney has a rich and diversified cultural life – and indeed a considerable portion of the more than 20 million tourists the city receives are in fact cultural tourists, out to sample the city’s rich cultural life.

Perhaps the main reason underlying the richness of Sydney’s culture is its multi-ethnic and cosmopolitan nature – seeing that almost every major world culture is represented in some way and in some part of Sydney. In fact, almost every suburb in Sydney offers you the opportunity to enjoy a different culture – starting with Oriental culture (Chinese) at Chinatown area of Sydney near the CBD to the Jewish culture, well represented at Bondi beaches to Serbian culture at Liverpool and St Ives – which has a strong representation of South African culture, to mention but a few of the prominent cultures here.

As with most cosmopolitan cities, the richness of the culture of Sydney is best celebrated through its art-scene. As it were, Sydney is home to the world famous Sydney Opera house, in which more than 3000 performances take place annually. Sydney is also the cradle of numerous famous music groups, most notably in the rock genre – which have gained fame in the years past – including the Rose Tattoo, the clouds and the ever eccentric Celibate riffles, to name but a few. As a celebration of its rich culture, Sydney has provided inspiration for a number of popular songs – including the ever fresh classics ‘Sydney town’ and ‘Reckless’

Sydney’s theater scene is thriving too – thanks to the city’s Sydney Theater Company – which manages a considerable number of artists and performances here. Some the major performance theaters in Sydney include the Theater Royal – dating back to the early 19th century, Capital Theater – which dates back to the early 20th century and the Lyric theater – these being some of the city’s theaters.

And to celebrate its past, Sydney hosts a number of remarkable museums – including the Museum of Sydney (which has been described as a storehouse of history), the nation’s Australian National Maritime Museum and the Sydney Observatory – a museum fully dedicated to the subject of astronomy. There are other specialized museums in Sydney, most revolving around the themes of art, science and technology. There is even a museum in Sydney to celebrate the present through technology – the Powerhouse Museum – a place full of gadgetry in what is described as a ‘hands on’ museum set up.

Literature is described as the mirror through which a culture sees itself – and here too Sydney makes a good showing – with a huge active literary community.

Then there are the visual arts – Sydney being (and having been) home to some of the world’s most famous creative minds. So rich is Sydney’s visuals arts scene that its products pour out to the streets through street art and graffiti – and a good place to catch a glimpse of this is at the Newtown area of the city.

The ultimate celebration of Sydney’s culture is to be found in its festivals – most notably the Sydney festival held in January, and which is just one of the city’s numerous festivals, other notable ones being the Tropfest and the Sydney film festival, held annually, not to mention the numerous music festivals.