Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "2102 Curatorial and Related Studies"
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Actors, Athletes and Academics: Life in ancient Greece
Published 2015This is a significant exhibition in that it presents the Greek material from the Nicholson Museum collection in a new light. It abandons the art historical approach of previous exhibitions, and embraces an approach that ...Open AccessOther -
Animal Gods: Classics and Classificiation
Published 2022Although biological sciences and classical studies are today disparate disciplines, natural philosophers once drew heavily upon the mythological figures of the ancient past when creating new scientific names for animal and ...Open AccessOther -
Children in Antiquity: Greece and Egypt
Published 2015Childhood in antiquity was both remarkably different and, in some ways, remarkably similar to childhood as we know it today. While infant mortality was shockingly high in the ancient Mediterranean, and there were marked ...Open AccessOther -
Coastline
Published 2021Coastline reveals profoundly different perceptions of the liminal space where land meets sea. Over centuries, artists have represented its changing appearance and meaning – sometimes as part of a journey, sometimes as a ...Open AccessOther -
Hercules: Myth and Legacy
Published 2023-02-01Hercules: Myth and Legacy is an interdisciplinary exhibition that uses two narrative arcs simultaneously to retell the ancient mythological saga of Hercules’ twelve labours and to discuss the reception of Hercules in the ...Open AccessOther -
Instrumental: Collections from Science. Calculating and Computing
Published 2021Instrumental: Collections from Science is a changing display of scientific instruments and apparatus drawn from the Macleay Collections of the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Each iteration focuses on a theme exploring the range ...Open AccessOther -
Mediterranean Identities: Across the wine-dark sea
Published 2023-02-21Mediterranean Identities: Across the Wine-Dark Sea thematically explores the material culture of the Mediterranean basin of the first millennium BC. The themes were chosen to highlight the regional variations between ...Open AccessOther -
Memento: Remembering Roman Lives
Published 2015The intention of the exhibition Memento: Remembering Roman Lives is exactly that—to remember the people named on these funeral inscriptions. The memorials name sailors from Egypt, Dalmatia and Thrace serving in the ...Open AccessOther -
Pharaonic Obsessions: Ancient Egypt, an Australian Story
Published 2021Pharaonic Obsessions: Ancient Egypt, an Australian Story explores the modern history of Egyptology through the lens of Australian collecting practices, showcasing the University of Sydney’s significant holdings of ancient ...Open AccessOther -
Roman Spectres
Published 2022Roman Spectres explores ancient Roman identity and how contemporary societies have conceptualised the ancient Roman world. The exhibition brings together significant Roman portraiture of the Nicholson Collection with large ...Open AccessOther -
Shattered Glass: Illuminating the Past
Published 2015Glass is a paradoxical material. It has enough strength to span the 10 metre wide very large telescopes and yet, as we all know, when dropped on a hard surface can shatter into hundreds of fragments. This exhibition sets ...Open AccessOther -
The Sky’s the Limit: Astronomy in Antiquity
Published 2015Ancient people looked to the skies to make sense of the world. Following the stars allowed people to predict the change of seasons, track time and create calendars. Sailors, as they struck out across the seas, used the ...Open AccessOther -
Stuffed, Stitched and Studied: Taxidermy in the 19th century
Published 2015Taxidermy is the process of making a life-like sculpture of an animal from its own skin. To make an elephant one needs a wooden frame, a fish needs gentle stuffing, a kangaroo needs stuffing and wire too; for a caterpillar ...Open AccessOther -
Tombs, Tells and Temples: Excavating the Near East
Published 2015The development of a new permanent exhibition on the Near East presented an exciting opportunity to investigate the holdings from this region in the Nicholson Museum collection. Initial investigation revealed held material ...Open AccessOther -
True to form: models made for science
Published 2022-10-25This exhibition grew out of an investigation into a series of scientific models held by the Macleay Museum. The models had lost any connection to their original purpose, and in many cases, their identification. With the ...Open AccessOther