About the Nicholas Building

It has only recently come to our attention that the ABC Arts website has a short video item about the Nicholas Building and some of its tenants. There is no mention of this Museum, but the view of the cathedral across the road is the same as the Director enjoys from his office. He would enjoy it more if we cleaned the windows.

Try www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2724520.htm but we don't know how long it will remain available.

Current research

Current research has been focused on a problem that has been at the back of our minds for a few years. We now appear to be close to completion of the prototype, and must acknowledge the significant contribution of a close Friend of the Museum who has been unstinting with his technical advice and encouragement.

This is a larger work which won't conform to the Museum's regular 60-cm diorama. Scale matters and frankly a smaller version just would not do the job. Something will be arranged somehow.

We can't say much at this stage about the work or the embodied principles, but we can reveal that it incorporates a magnet, a motor and bits of hardware. And of course some electricity.

And as Bob said: "It was gravity which pulled us down..."

Recent exhibits

Despite the lack of posting activity here, the Museum has not been entirely idle. Exhibits at the Nicholas Building have been changed.

For quite a while we had Whirling Dervishes Demonstrate the Formation of Stalactites. This was developed as a sequel to an earlier work, Whirling Dervishes Study Improvisation (shown below if you care to scroll down), and proved to be popular with the passing traffic. Photographs were taken and will be posted here if the archivist can be found.

More recently we released the current exhibit, provisionally titled The Rotary Bistable Oscillator: an Exploration. This too has received some favourable comments. And again, a photograph may appear before long.