Discover the Nicholson Museum
The Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney is home to the largest collection of antiquities in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. The museum was founded in 1860 by Sir Charles Nicholson with a significant donation from his private collection of artefacts and curiosities, today the museum houses over 30,000 archaeological items.
Sydney University Museums have free admission and are open to public. This community service announcement aired on TVS in 2012. For more information visit sydney.edu.au/museums
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The Macleay Museum in Sydney, Australia, is a natural history museum located on the main campus of the University of Sydney.Admission is free and the museum open to the public.Hours of admission are 10:00am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday, and 12:00pm to 4:00pm on the first Saturday of the month.The museum is closed on public holidays and Sundays.
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Graham Fulton - The history of the Macleay Museum: An adjectival betrayal - UQ CBCS Seminar
22/01/2019: Graham Fulton from University of Queensland shares the fascinating history of a Australia's original Natural History Museum. Brought to you by the University of Queensland Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
Abstract: The history of the Macleay Museum and The Chevert Expedition
Imagine a museum, a private museum. This museum happens to be the best in the world. It is visited regularly by the most famous scientists, who in turn publish their findings and acknowledge its owner [insert name here]. It is the late 1790s and early 1800 and museums are called Cabinets. The owner of this Cabinet bought-up the best pickings from adversary cabinets, one of which belonged to Carl Von Linne. Thus, the cabinet grew to become the most famous in the land. Then, in 1826, this Cabinet was shipped to a fledgling Australia and Sydney had the best Cabinet in the world. Sydney’s academics had access to it: so of course it influenced early Australian science. Eventually, its owner passes it to his son. His son [insert name here] had already become a world famous evolutionary biologist and had instructed the likes of a young Charles Darwin while cavorting with the likes of the scandalously dangerous Chevalier de Lamarck. But, finally he settled in Sydney with the Cabinet and was regarded as the savant of the colony. Time passes and eventually he too dies but not before adding his Cabinet to the original and passing them on to his cousin. The cousin [insert name here] continues the family tradition—no, he extends it! He builds the collection by staging Australia’s first and biggest scientific expedition to a foreign shore—New Guinea: The Chevert Expedition, which was enormously successful. The expanded Cabinet is put into a purpose built museum, the [insert name here], in the grounds of The University of Sydney. After the cousin’s death the university broke up the collections and put what was left into storage. The museum itself is turned into teaching and office space. It was, and is, an adjectival disgrace!
Now insert the names for yourself: Alexander Macleay; William Sharp Macleay; Sir William (John) Macleay; Macleay Museum
Graham Fulton is undertaking his PhD at UQ. He is looking at the nest ecology woodland birds. He has been an Associate Editor and the Perspectives Editor at Pacific Conservation Biology for 20 years. An Adjunct Lecturer Murdoch University. He has published more than 100 articles as senior author. In the mid-90s he accepted a research fellowship jointly funded by the University of Sydney and the Russian Government. The fellowship made him the Macleay Miklouho-Maclay Centenary Research Fellow. This fellowship introduced him to the collections in the Macleay Museum, from which he says he is unable to escape—because its history is so engaging. Last year he finished a book on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea, staged, in 1875. His interests are broadly based in biology and history, but intrinsically linked in some way to birds.
Macleay Museum - Being Collected 2012 Danie Mellor
The exhibition that had the whole of Sydney waiting
The Game of Thrones exhibition visited Australia last week and the one stop on their list was Sydney. The event saw thousands of fans flocking to take a peak at the props and planning behind one of the most successful television shows in history.
Produced by Callum Birch and Sion Weatherhead
Presented by Bree Grant
It was a long wait but finally the Royals arrived
Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in Sydney yesterday to a crowd of thousands, who turned out to greet them at the Opera House.
Māori in early Sydney
On February 02 2019 the Macleay Museum's curator of ethnography Rebecca Conway, introduced two Māori-Australian historians who shared their knowledge and insights into some of the key characters and fascinating episodes of early Māori in Sydney.
Maintaining strong genealogical and cultural connections to Aotearoa – New Zealand, today one in six Māori call Australia home. From the earliest days of the British Colony, large numbers of Māori visited and based themselves in the emerging port city, particularly for the development of trade and strategic alliances.
Jo Maarama Kamira is of Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Nga Puhi, Ngati Whakaue and Maussie descent and has a background in law enforcement. Jo researched and wrote the entry on Māori for the Dictionary of Sydney (2012) and the publication, Māori Trade & Relations in Parramatta (2016).
Brent Kerehona (Pukepuke-Ahitapu) of Ngāpuhi descent, is a high school history teacher with a military background. Brent is currently researching, writing and producing texts and films centred on his whanaunga family member, rangatira (chief) Hongi Hika (1772-1828), an 1814 carved bust of whom is currently on display as part of the Nicholson Museum, Connections exhibition.
Chau Chak Wing Museum Ground Breaking Ceremony, The University of Sydney
22 June 2018
Marking the commencement of construction for the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, this event commenced with a traditional Aboriginal welcome and smoking ceremony of the site and all the guests.
ACFEA Co-Patron Dr Chau Chak Wing has supported the University in its vision to bring this museum to reality. The Museum will be the focal point of the University’s 'cultural precinct'.
To learn more about the ACFEA, visit our website or our Facebook page
Curators of Cool Project by the Queensland Museum. Sibella's Episode
Our Curators of Cool project shows you our collection through the eyes of six internationally influential stylists, editors, authors, architects and designers. We invited them to go behind the scenes in our collection stores and choose a few special objects or specimens that epitomise 'cool' in their eyes from more than 1.2 million treasures. The result is a series of micro-exhibitions showcasing their choices. Find out more at qm.qld.gov.au.
Dusky Morwong, Dactylophora nigricans
Dusky Morwongs at Haycock Point, South Australia. Video (c) Australian Museum. Footage (c) David Muirhead. Marine Life Society of South Australia. For more information on this species visit the species factsheet on the Australian Museum website.
SESSION 5: Gumbula Memorial Lecture by Professor Aaron Corn (ASA ITIC 2017)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers, listeners, readers are advised that the following presentation may contain images and voices of people who have died.
SESSION 5: KEYNOTE THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 9.00 - 10.30AM
GUMBULA MEMORIAL LECTURE by Professor Aaron Corn
The ITIC Symposium will be held in memory of the late Dr J N Gumbula from northeast Arnhem Land, who was a major contributor to establishing the National Recording Project and to enhancing knowledge of Indigenous archives and collections in Australia and internationally. Dr Gumbula was a researcher, Yolngu leader and ARC Indigenous Fellowship recipient who passed away in 2015. He worked extensively with Australian archives, museums and universities including the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney Archives, the Macleay Museum, Museum Victoria, and the Australian National University amongst many others.
A response was given by Professor Marcia Langton with Dr Gumbula's Family.
Recorded 28 September 2017 at the University of Melbourne by Vanessa Grace. Edited by Gionni Di Gravio
This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land.
ASA-ITIC-2017 is the joint National Conference and Symposium of Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Information Technologies Indigenous Communities (ITIC) held in Melbourne, Australia 26-28 September 2017.
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A life in Archaeology: In Conversation with Judy Birmingham
On March 21 2017 Associate Professor Judy Birmingham joined Dr Craig Barker at the Nicholson Museum for a conversation about her archaeological career spanning decades and encompassing the pre-historic through to the historic. Birmingham is a significant figure in the history of archaeology in Australia. She studied at the Institute of Archaeology in London under Sir Max Mallowan and undertook extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, Cyprus, Greece and Britain with some of the most famous and fascinating figures of 20th century archaeology. Beginning with the Near East, she went on to pioneer the development of Australian historical archaeology in the 1970s and 1980s, leading excavations at sites such as Irrawang, Wybalenna and Regentville.
Sharing memories of the resistance she overcame while developing Australian historical archaeology courses, Judy and Craig discussed what it was like to be the first female archaeological staff member at the University, and her involvement with the Nicholson and Macleay Museum collections over five decades.
Get The Arte-Facts: USYD's Museums
Egyptian mummies, 12 000 dead birds, ancient pottery. Where can we find these things on campus? We took a tour of the Nicholson Museum, the Macleay and the University Art Gallery to discover more and get the (arte-)facts on whether students are checking them out.
Documentary - The Nicholson Museum Ep1.Past
Unravelling Sydney's mummy mystery
Macquarie University's Dr Karin Sowada gives us a previous of an ancient Egyptian coffin at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum, home of Australia's largest collection of antiquities...
The Wagga Wagga Historic Walk - Video Tour
This video shows some of the historic buildings that you will see on the Wagga Wagga Historic Walk developed by the Wagga Wagga City Library.
I made this video as a TAFE assignment and thought it would be good to share so that people from all over the world can see a little bit of Wagga Wagga.
Here is a link to some more information about the Wagga Wagga Histrocal Buildings Walk:
Wagga Wagga City Library:
Sydney - New South Wales, Australia | Travel Diary #RitzRoams
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Sydney Ideas Australian South Sea Islanders - the call for recognition
The call for recognition of the Australian South Sea Islander peoples - A Human Rights issue for a 'Forgotten People'
presented by the Macleay Museum and Australian South Sea Islanders Port Jackson
Law school foyer -- Sydney University: Tuesday August 20 2013
Video footage Ming Darcy
2013 marks 150 years since the first of 55,000 Pacific Islander Labourer's (known as Australian South Sea Islanders or 'ASSI') were brought to Australia between 1863-1901 partly by kidnapping and in slave -like conditions to develop the sugar cane, pastoral and maritime industries. In 1901 the new Federal Parliament passed an Act to deport the entire community as part of the White Australian Policy, reducing their numbers from 10,000 to just over 1,000, one of the cruellest acts in Australian history. The Islander community was devastated but the few who were able to remain gradually built up again over generations.
Over the past 20 years numerous community members have been involved in 'The call for recognition -- a community initiated movement seeking federal government recognition of this community as a disadvantaged ethnic Identity within Australia. Diligent political lobbying by the descendants of these people begun by Faith Bandler AO in the 1970s, has created a momentum among state and federal government representatives for proper recognition and assistance of the Australian South Sea Islander community. They gained the support of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC, 1992) and in 1994 HEROC findings bought about 1994 Commonwealth recognition as a disadvantaged ethnic group. Despite this, little has changed over the last twenty years although ASSI's suffer the same disadvantages as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and remain marginalised, facing the ongoing consequences of cultural kidnapping, identity, loss of family and severe lack of government services in education and well-being. We invite you to discuss this pertinent issue with a panel of representatives from current governments, historians and ASSI.PJ representatives to outline the present situation and plans that are in development for formal ongoing assistance to Australian South Sea Islander peoples.
UOW Open Day Panel with Kumi Taguchi
The UOW Open Day drew some well known alumni back to the campus, among them ABC News 24 presenter and journalist Kumi Taguchi. Ms Taguchi was part of a panel of journalism and communications academics, students and industry representatives to discuss the changing face of communications and the strengths of the LHA Journalism and Communications and Media Studies degrees.