Our new monthly museums e-newsletter
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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 announced
The 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 closed
After 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 announced
The deadline for paper submission has been extended to Friday 6 March and
conference registration fees
are now listed online.
Apply Now: Macleay Miklhouho-Maclay Fellowship
Work with the Macleay Collections to pursue your research ambitions.
Upcoming Saturday talks
Don't miss our March and April free Saturday talks.
Heat, History and Hummus: On the Trail of the Crusaders in the Holy Land
Matthew Gibbs
Sat 7 Mar, 2 - 3pm
Colonial Sydney CBD: Through the eyes of an archaeologist
Helen Nicholson
Sat 4 April, 2 - 3pm
Collection item of the month
To 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)
1. Top banner image: Rami (Polis Motu language) skirt, plant fibres, collected in Papua New Guinea, 1875.
2. Chau Chak Wing Museum under construction.
3. Museum staff at the Nicholson Museum closing party.
4. Architect's render of the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
5. Type specimen of Dendrolagus dorianus, Ramsay, 1883, collected in Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.
6. Church of the Holy Sepulchre by David Roberts (lithograph by Louis Haghe), 1842 [Wikicomons.org].
7. Big Dig archeological site, Sydney, 2006.
8. Cypriot piriform amphora, 400-300BC.
