This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to report on their collections legacies and their ongoing value for research, education, and community engagement in the twenty-first century.
An introductory chapter offers an overview of the themes that unite these Mediterranean collections: their colonial legacies, their more recent history, and the network of scholars who have fostered their development. Subsequent chapters offer thematic case studies from the perspective of curators, museum professionals, educators, and researchers working with collections across Australasia. They explore several themes, including museum archaeology, provenance studies, pedagogy, and participatory programming and engagement; and they address two issues that are of interest to everyone who engages with museum collections today: restitution and the ethical management and display of human remains. Taken together, these contributions situate the regions collections on a global scale, highlighting their continued relevance in the present and for the future. The volume includes a distribution guide to all known ancient Mediterranean collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a much-needed resource for students, provenance researchers, and museum professionals.
The proposed volume will be of interest to researchers in Mediterranean archaeology and related disciplines, to museum studies scholars and postgraduate students, and to a general audience.
This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to report on their collections legacies and their ongoing value for research, education, and community engagement in the twenty-first century.
1. Perspectives from Afar;
2. From Antefix to Oenochoe: The Provenance
History of the Mediterranean Collection at Auckland War Memorial Tmaki
Paenga Hira;
3. Ancient Coins in Australian Collections;
4. The Origin of the
Australian Institute of Archaeology Collection and its Purpose Past, Present,
and Future;
5. The Egyptian Collection at the Australian Museum
6. A Few
Scraps of Pottery and Papyrus: From Antiquities Collection to Museum at The
University of Queensland, circa 19501975;
7. Time and Technology: The
Ancient Mediterranean at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney;
8. Objects from a
Universitys Antiquities Collection Enhance Ancient World Studies in a
Purpose-Built Environment: The Case of Arts West at the University of
Melbourne;
9. To See the World in a Marble Toe: The Graeme Clarke Teaching
Collection at the Australian National Universitys Classics Museum;
10.
Numismatics and the Currency of Online Access;
11. Mind the Gap! The Tyranny
of Distance for Museum Engagement: UNEMAs Significance 2.0;
12. Bridging the
distance between Herakles and Pokémon;
13. An Evolving University Museum
Paradigm: Broadening Participation with the Mediterranean Collections at the
Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney;
14. Subjective Objects: Using Museum
Collections as Catalysts for Social Well-Being and Identity Exploration;
15.
Reimagining Greco-Roman Art in Colour: A Screen-Based Exhibition Interactive
at the National Museum of Australia;
16. Contemporary Antiquities: Exploring
Engagements;
17. Italian Restitution and the Australian National Universitys
Classics Museum: Realities and Opportunities;
18. Innovative Approaches to
Caring for Ancient Egyptian Mummified Human Remains at the Chau Chak Wing
Museum, Sydney;
19. The Use of Tikanga in Caring for Egyptian Mummified
Remains in Aotearoa New Zealand;
20. Distribution Guide to the Mediterranean
Collections of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia
Candace Richards is Assistant Curator, Nicholson Collection for the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Candaces research interests bring together ancient world studies with contemporary museum practice to re-evaluate how and why collections were formed and explore the ways historic collections can offer new insights into human endeavour.
Elizabeth Minchin is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the Australian National University. For many years she was Honorary Curator of the ANU Classics Museum, using it extensively in her teaching and overseeing its programme of outreach engagement. She retains a strong interest in antiquities collections and their value, and role, in todays world.
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