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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 -
Australian Seashores
Published 2024-10-21There is a growing popular awareness of the fragility of coastlines and seashores, due largely to an increasing understanding of climate change and habitat loss. Against this background, this exhibition sought to engage ...Open AccessOther -
The Business of Photography: the 19th Century Studio
Published 2024-10-22In the 19th century photographs were predominantly the work of photographic studios. These businesses ranged from single person to complex operations. The output of the studio was credited to the studio name: only rarely ...Open AccessOther -
Catalogue of the Museum of Antiquities of the Sydney University
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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 -
Crossroads: Ancient Cyprus
Published 2023-03-07Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea whose legacy is of a significance far beyond its physical size, because of its geography and geology. Located between Asia, Europe and Africa, it is at the very nexus ...Open AccessOther -
Hercule : Mythe et Héritage
Published 2023Hercule : Mythe et Héritage est une exposition interdisciplinaire qui utilise deux arcs narratifs simultanément pour raconter de nouveau la saga de mythologie antique des douze travaux d’Hercule et pour aborder sa réception ...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 -
Instrumental: Surveying Instruments.
Published 2024-10-21"Instrumental: Surveying Instruments" explores a range of specialised tools used for surveying between the early 19th and late 20th centuries. Visitors are introduced to the functions and applications of these varied ...Open AccessOther -
Instrumental: Using and Analysing Light
Published 2024-10-21Instrumental: Using and Analysing Light explores a broad range of technologies that use and analyse light. Visitors are introduced to the various functions and widespread applications of these optical instruments. Familiar ...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 -
Pacific Views
Published 2023-12-07The Pacific Views exhibition was open to the public from August 2021 to July 2022 in the Museum’s historic photography gallery. We drew upon eco-poetics to reflect the ways that peoples across the Pacific talk about their ...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 -
Rational Order. Carl von Linné (1707-1778)
Published 2008In 2007 the Macleay Museum celebrated Linnaeus’s 300th year with the exhibition "Rational Order". The exhibition included over five hundred animals from the Macleay collections. We only selected animals that had been ...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