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Sigmund Freud's Collection: an Archaeology of the Mind

'The psychoanalyst, like the archaeologists, must uncover layer after layer of the patient's psyche, before coming to the deepest, most valuable treasures.'
Sigmund Freud

"Sigmund Freud's Collection: an Archaeology of the Mind brings together objects from Sigmund Freud's personal collection of antiquities held in the Freud Museum, London. The artworks - which travel to Australia for the first times, and are presented alongside related film and documentary material, including Edmund Engelman's celebrated photographs and Anna Freud's homemovies - odder a unique insight into Freud as collector, thinker and art connoisseur. They also reveal how Freud's study of art and antiquities influenced his theories of psychoanalysts."
Max Delany. Director. MUMA

Exhibition curated by Janine Burke.
5 September - 17 November, Monash Uuniversity Museum of Art, Director Max Delaney
2 January - 30 March, Nicholson Museum, Senior Curator Michael Turner

Due to the success of the exhibition, the Catalogue has now sold out. It is, therefore, now available as a free download. Click here

Faces of Power. Imperial portraiture on Roman Coins
P. Brennan, M. Turner and N. Wright
Sydney 2007

83 pages, full colour, p/b

The Catalogue of the 2007 Nicholson Museum exhibition of the same name. 132 coins illustrating the lives, achievements, hopes, loves and scandals of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Anthemius. With short (Suetonius-like) entries for each emperor by Peter Brennan, this is an excellent introduction to Roman history and its coinage.

'This catalogue ... is a fine publication. The short biographies are clear, concise and even witty. Each manages to pack in a surprising amount of information about the emperor and his family members. They are peppered with the 'juicy' bits of intrigue as well as famous sayings, such as Vespasian's 'I think I am becoming a god' remark just before his death. This reviewer appreciated the heading under the year 69 AD: 'One damn emperor after another'. (Rachel Meyers in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review 15 Nov 2007)

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Treasures of the Nicholson Museum
D.T. Potts and K. Sowada (eds.)
Sydney 2004

A selection of 47 of the most iconic pieces from the Nicholson Museum collection together with an introductory essay on the history of the Museum by Professor Potts. Lavishly illustrated with descriptive articles on each piece by some of the leading figures of Australian archaeology.

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Ancient Voices - Modern Echoes: Theatre in the Greek World. Exhibition Catalogue
J.R. Green, F. Muecke, K.N. Sowada, M. Turner and E. Bachmann
Sydney, 2003
88 pages, full colour, p/b

This Catalogue presents the 45 objects on display in the Nicholson Museum's exhibition, 'Ancient Voices - Modern Echoes: Theatre in the Greek World'. The pieces include Attic and South Italian painted vases, terracotta figurines and bronze statuettes, some of which have never been published before. The catalogue is prefaced with three essays by Professor J.R. Green and F. Muecke on ancient theatre and the theatre site at Nea Paphos, Cyprus.

ISBN 0-909602-16-6
Price AUD$25.00 (plus postage if order is to be mailed)
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Colin E. Pitchfork
The Jon Hosking Collection of Ptolemaic Coins
Sydney 2000
98pp with b/w photographs of 178 coins

The book is a guide to the collection of Ptolemaic coins formed by Jon Martin Hosking housed in the Nicholson Museum.

ISBN 0 646 39589 0
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Nicolas Coldstream and Wendy Reade
The Dipylon Krater in the Nicholson Museum
Sydney 1997
27pp with 11 b/w plates

The book is a handsome bound offprint from the journal Mediterranean Archaeology, and features a detailed study of the Museum's important Late Geometric Krater, considering aspects of context, style, iconography and conservation.

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Jennifer M. Webb
Cypriote Antiquities in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney
Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. XX:20, Jonsered 2001, pp. 132 with 31 plates of line drawings and 35 b/w plates.

The book presents a comprehensive study of ceramics, lamps, terracotta, metal, glass and stone objects from Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus.

ISBN 91-7081-175-X
Price: Paperback AUD $55.00
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Daniel T. Potts
The Archaeology of Elam
Cambridge University Press 2002

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.

ISBN 0 52156496 4
Price: AUD $89.95
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Macleay Museum

Museum by Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay

A new book featuring over 100 stunning full-page images from one of Australia's leading photographers, accompanied by an engaging history from an acclaimed essayist and author.

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Rational Order. Carl von Linné 1707-1778.
Exhibition catalogue
Macleay Museum.

In 2007 the Macleay Museum celebrated Linnaeus's 300th year with the exhibition Ratrional order. The exhibition included over five hundred animals from the Macleay collections. We only selected animals that had been described by Linnaeus, and arranged them according to Linnaeus's system.

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A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials

Written by the University of Sydney's Professor Chris Dickman this book tells the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials and their precarious state in an ever-worsening environment. A Fragile Balance takes an intimate look at 150 marsupials, many uncommonly heard of, and includes intricate detailed illustrations by highly awarded and respected natural history artist Rosemary Woodford Ganf.

A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials is published by Craftsman House, an imprint of Thames & Hudson ($85). The foreword to A Fragile Balance is written by renowned scientist and author Tim Flannery. Release date: December, 2007.

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Collected: 150 years of Aboriginal art and artifacts at the Macleay Museum
By Susie Davies, (with essay by Rose Stack) Published by University of Sydney, 2002
Softcover 108 pages

Collected is the first book to be published on the Macleay Museum’s important holdings of Australian Aboriginal art and artifacts. The book comprises 108 full colour plates, featuring some of Australia’s oldest bark paintings as well as shields, clubs, bags and body ornaments from the Macleay Museum’s historic collections. These artifacts, most of them collected in the second half of the nineteenth century, are show cased along with others collected in the twentieth century. These include a significant collection of bark paintings, pearl shell ornaments and a unique Wandjina figure. Supplements by about 30 historic photographs mainly from the Museum’s extensive collections, Collected highlights the rich artistic tradition of Aboriginal Australians.

Collected will be an essential resource for museum curators, historians, anthropologists, collectors and all those interested in the rich material culture and artistic traditions of Aboriginal Australians.

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Fanny to William: The letters of Frances Leonora Macleay 1812-1836
ed. Beverley Earnshaw, Joy Hughes and Lindy Davidson

Fanny was the eldest daughter of the Colonial Secretary, Alexander Macleay (founder of the Macleay collections). The letters she wrote to her brother, William Sharp Macleay, provide an entertaining, forthright account of her family, Sydney society, and life in the colony under Governors Darling and Bourke.

Published by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW and the Macleay Museum, 1993. Pp 195, 25x18 cm.

Paperback $20.00 (was $34.95)
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Mr. Macleay's Celebrated Cabinet
ed. Peter Stanbury and Julian Holland

A history of the Macleay Museum and the Macleay Family over 200 years. As well as celebrating the Museum's 100 year presence at the University of Sydney, the book provides an insight into the scientific circles of Regency England and Victorian Sydney. (8 authors)

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1988. Pp 171, 24x18 cm.

Paperback $5.00 (was $26.95)
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Toys to Remember
Peter Stanbury, Lydia Bushell and Clare Watson

From an exhibition of simple toys and pastimes around the world.

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1987. Pp 32, 21x15 cm.

Paperback $2.00 (was $4.50)
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South Pacific Islands
edited by Peter Stanbury and Lydia Bushell

Comprises 10 chapters by experts in their fields including European exploration, land forms, botany, languages, arts, whaling, crops and farming, politics and independence.

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1984. Pp, 24x18 cm.

Paperback $5.00 (was $10.95)
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A Dictionary of Measuring Instruments
Dr. Valerie Havyatt

A reference book of measuring instruments from Abney level to Zymosismeter.

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1981. Pp 66, 21x10cm.

Paperback $1.00 (was $2.50)
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Microscopes and Microscopy
Julian Holland

Microscopes and related items in the Scientific Instrument collection.

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1989. Pp 52, 29x21 cm

Paperback $12.00
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The Macleay Collectors - A Working Notebook
Lois Tilbrook

A guide for those who work with the Macleay Collections or who are interested in the history of science in Australia. Includes biographical information.

Published by the Macleay Museum, 1992. Pp, 29x21 cm.

Paperback $15.00 (was $25.00)
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