2007 Events
January 2007
UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS RE-OPEN FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS RECESS
Monday 15 January 2007, 10.00am
The Macleay Museum, the Nicholson Museum and the University Art Gallery reopen to the public on Monday 15 January 2007. Regular operating hours are Monday-Friday 10.00am-4.30pm, and the first Sunday of each month, 12 noon-4.00pm. Closed public holidays.
FILM SCREENING
Women of the Sun
Thursday 25 January
Macleay Museum
Well before the so-called "history wars" over the representation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience, Hyllus Maris and Sonia Borg scripted a television series which focussed on issues that would dominate Aboriginal affairs in the following decades. Twenty-five years on, the Macleay Museum will be screening the first two parts of this popular and groundbreaking television series from the 1980s. An interval reception will be held in the Macleay Museum - a final opportunity to see the Living Water exhibition featuring fine artistic expression of Aboriginal identity from the collections.
Commemorate the day before colonisation at the Macleay Museum.
Time: 5.30pm
Cost: $10 ($5 for students)
Screening will take place in the Old Geology Lecture Theatre; refreshments will be served at interval in the Macleay Museum
Bookings: phone (02) 9036 5253 or email
Please note the Macleay Museum will be closed to the public from 29 January until 16 February to allow for the installation of the new exhibition Rational Order: Carl von Linne 1707-1778.
February 2007
PUBLIC TALK BY AUSTRALIA's 2006 IG NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES
Dr Pier Barnes and Nic Svenson
Sunday 4 February
Macleay Museum
Hear Australia's winners of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics, Dr Piers Barnes and Nic Svenson of the CSIRO. The Ig Nobel prizes honour research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Our laureates will discuss their winning formula for figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one image where no-one is blinking!
Time: 2.00pm, free entry
For bookings: phone (02) 9036 5253 or email
April 2007
Easter Holidays
The University Museums are open over the Easter Holidays.
Except for Good Friday and Easter Monday
So spend some of this Easter walking around the fantastic collection that the Sydney University Museums have to offer.
There is also special Easter Holidays for the kids on the 19th and 20th of April, for more details scroll down.
Food, Wine and Dining in Ancient Greece: The Symposium Experience
A presentation by Dr Elizabeth Bollen, Dr Craig Barker and Renée Regal
Tuesday 17 April
Nicholson Museum
Discover amazing archaeological and historical facts about the ancient Greek dining experience in this lively and fascinating evening. The food and wine of the Classical and Hellenistic world is brought to life by our speakers, as is the cultures of eating in antiquity.
Food for the mind and soul, as well as for the belly.
Time- 6:30pm
Cost-$20, $15 for FNM and AAIA members
Bookings- phone (02) 9351 2812 or email m.turner@usyd.edu.au
This event is co-hosted by the Society of Mediterranean Archaeology(SOMA) and the Sydney friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens(AAIA) and held in conjunction with the Greek Festival of Sydney 2007.
School Holiday Activities
Thursday the 19th and Friday the 20th of April
Nicholson Museum, Macleay Museum, University Art Gallery
Celebrate National Youth Week 2007 and take part in school holiday activities at University Museums. Discover art, science, history and culture.
Events
*Mummy Wrapping next to real Mummies!
*Hands-On
*Free Childrens tours at 11 am, 12 Noon & 1pm
*Myth telling
*and lots more!
Public Lecture by Michael Turner
The Inaugural Alexander Cambitoglou Lecture-
"The Portland Vase: Adonis in the Underworld"
Tuesday the 24th of April
Nicholson Museum
On a freezing winter's day in 1845, a young Irishman walked into the British Museum in London. Making his way up to the first floor, he picked up a piece of marble and threw it at a small blue and white pot, smashing it into over 200 pieces. The Duke of Portland, who owned the pot, was no amused. And so was broken, for the first of three times, one of the most famous, yet enigmatic objects in the British Museum, the Portland Vase. Ever since it was first seen in a private collection in Rome in 1600, mystery and intrigue have surrounded the Vase, No more so than in the many, often bizarre and wonderful attempts to make sense of its imagery. Peter Paul Rubens, Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), and Josiah Wedgwood have all tried. Most recently it has even been suggested hat the imagery indicates that the Vase is a Renaissance fake. It is not.
Time- 6:30pm
Cost-: $20, $15 for FNM members
Refreshments served
Bookings- phone (02) 9351 2812 or email m.turner@usyd.edu.au
MAY 2007
Sunday Open Day
Sunday the 6th of May
Macleay Museum, Nicholson Museum and University Art Gallery
Visit all three University Museums to see current exhibitions and take part in free guided tours of the collections.
Time- 12 noon- 4pm.
Artist's Talk with Jan Fieldsend
Sunday the 6th of May
University Art Gallery
Hear artist Jan Fieldsend talk about her exhibition outpouring, showing at the University Art Gallery. The talk will be followed by drinks to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Time- 2pm
Cost- Free
Bookings- phone (02) 9351 6883 or email artcollection@usyd.edu.au
Public Lecture by Dr Martin Gibbs
Failed Empire: Finding the lost 16th-centur Spanish Colonies of the Solomon Islands
Thursday the 10th of May
Nicholson Museum
The Friends of the Nicholson Museum(FNM) and Australian Museum Members combine to celebrate National Archaeology Week 2007 in this public lecture give by archaeologist Dr Martin Gibbs of the University of Sydney. Hear about exciting recent research into Pacific colonisation. This talk has it all: exploration, murder, mutiny, colonial failure and shipwrecks. Don't miss it!
Time- 6:30pm for 7:00pm
Cost- $20, $15 for FNM and Australian Museum Members
Refreshments served
Bookings- phone (02) 9351 2812 or email m.turner@usyd.edu.au