Ptahhotep's Australian Egyptology Pages

EGYPTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
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  • The Museum of Ancient Cultures website at Macquarie University, Sydney, is under development, but open for text-only browsing.
    One of Australia's best-presented University Museums, which moved into its new, purpose-built quarters in mid-1994. Holdings include a wide variety of artefacts (pottery, coins, papyrus, coffins, mummified human remains) from the ancient Mediterranean world (Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Italy).

    Museum of Ancient Cultures
    Level 3, Building X5B
    Macquarie University (North Ryde) NSW 2109.

    Telephone: (02) 9850-9263 - Facsimile: (02) 9850-8892
    E-mail: kvdyke@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
    Admission charge: Free (booking is recommended, to avoid arriving at the same time as school excursions).
    Opening Hours: 9am-5pm Monday to Friday (other times by appointment).
    Facilities: Lift access available for wheelchairs, shop (publications & museum gifts), toilets, education programmes, seminar room/theatrette, hands-on activities for school & other organised excursions, food/drink vending machines on Level 1, X5B Building, near lift.

  • The Nicholson Museum, located within the University of Sydney, is Australia's oldest university Collection of Classical and Middle Eastern antiquities. It was built around the private collection of the University's first Provost, Sir Charles Nicholson, and has grown in size ten-fold since 1860. It is the third-oldest university teaching collection in the world. As well as substantial holdings of Greek pottery, the Museum contains objects from Jericho, El-Amarna, Knossos, and Ur. A website is planned, but not yet active.

    The Nicholson Museum
    South Wing, Main Building (off Main Quad)
    University Place
    Main Campus, Parramatta Road
    University of Sydney (Camperdown) NSW 2006.

    Telephone: (02) 9351-2812 - Facsimile: (02) 9351-4889
    Admission charge: Free
    Opening Hours: 10am-4:30pm Monday to Friday (closed throughout January).

  • The Museum of Antiquities, at the University of New England (situated in Armidale, in the highlands of northern New South Wales), was founded in 1959. It has a small Egyptology section and the University offers some Egyptology courses for undergraduates. The Museum houses the largest amount of Cypriot material in Australia.
    Admission charge: Free (donation requested for printed guide-honesty box system)

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