Our new monthly museums e-newsletter No images? Click here Welcome to MUSE Extra, a new monthly e-newsletter sharing the latest news, research and events from the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. You are receiving our first issue because you were on our Nicholson Museum, Macleay Museum, or University Art Gallery email list. These three collections are now preparing to move into the new Chau Chak Wing Museum. A new museum for Sydney: opening date announcedThe Chau Chak Wing Museum will open its doors to the public on August 26, 2020. Craig Barker, David Ellis, James Fraser, Tania Rhodes-Taylor, Candace Richards and Matthew Gibbs farewell the Nicholson Museum. Nicholson Museum now closedAfter 160 years the Nicholson Museum doors have closed as we prepare for the next chapter of this collection. UMAC 20/20 call for papers extended and fees announcedThe deadline for paper submission has been extended to Friday 6 March and Apply Now: Macleay Miklhouho-Maclay FellowshipWork with the Macleay Collections to pursue your research ambitions. Upcoming Saturday talksDon't miss our March and April free Saturday talks. Heat, History and Hummus: On the Trail of the Crusaders in the Holy Land Collection item of the monthTo celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March, we are featuring a Cypriot amphora excavated in 1938 by pioneering archaeologist Joan du Plat Taylor (1906-1983). Beginning her career as a volunteer at the Cyprus Museum, she was instrumental in establishing nautical archaeology as a discipline, and founded The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology in 1970. Collection item: Cypriot piriform amphora, ceramic, 400-300BC. Donated by the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 1947. Image details (in order of appearance) |