Nicholson Museum Past Exhibitions

Egypt: Life and Death in the Black Land

From the cradle to the grave... immerse yourself in the Egyptian world among the artefacts of daily life and the residue of death.


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Shattered Glass: Illuminating the Past

From the Bronze Age furnaces of Mesopotamia to the tables of the Roman Emperor Nero, glass was a prized and magical material. Despite its fragility, many beautiful pieces of glass have survived through the ages, some in tombs, some underwater in
shipwrecked cargoes.

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Unearthed Tales #2: A Fascination with Death

The bodies of mummies, the bones of saints, and the statues of gods jostle for attention with Hercules, Agatha Christie, and Oliver Cromwell.

Throughout 2008

Sigmund Freud’s Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind

An exhibition of Egyptian, Greek, Italian, and Chinese antiquities from the private collection of Sigmund Freud – together with photographs taken in 1938 by Edmund Engelman; home movies of her father taken by his daughter, Anna; and a recreation of the famous couch and desk.

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Irrawang
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the birth of Australian historical archaeology, this exhibition features artefacts recovered from the site of James King's Irrawang Pottery Manufactory, near Raymond Terrace.

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The Acropolis Restoration Project and the New Acropolis Museum

The Parthenon in Athens is one of the world's most famous and instantly recognisable buildings. It is an iconic cultural symbol of the modern Greek state, and a reminder of a shared cultural heritage that reaches back to the 5th century BC; a defining period in the history of democracy, theatre, architecture, philosophy and more.

An exhibition of images of the restorations and of the New Acropolis Museum will be on display in the Nicholson Museum.

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Faces of Power: Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins

Using coins from the Nicholson Museum's extensive but little-seen collection, this exhibition traces the history of the imperial families of ancient Rome.

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Lebanon: from Baalbek to Beirut

Using artefacts from antiquity to the modern day, as well as the large format photography of Rowan Conroy, this exhibition highlights the heritage of this extraordinary country.

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