Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Afar
Redaktion: Richards, Candace; Minchin, Elizabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to report on their collections' legacies and their ongoing value for research, education, and community engagement in the twenty-first century.

An introductory chapter offers an overview of the themes that unite these Mediterranean collections: their colonial legacies, their more recent history, and the network of scholars who have fostered their development. Subsequent chapters offer thematic case studies from the perspective of curators, museum professionals, educators, and researchers working with collections across Australasia. They explore several themes, including museum archaeology, provenance studies, pedagogy, and participatory programming and engagement, and they address two issues that are of interest to everyone who engages with museum collections today: restitution and the ethical management and display of human remains. Taken together, these contributions situate the region's collections on a global scale, highlighting their continued relevance in the present and for the future. The volume includes a distribution guide to all known ancient Mediterranean collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a much-needed resource for students, provenance researchers, and museum professionals.

This volume will be of interest to researchers in Mediterranean archaeology and related disciplines, to museum studies scholars and postgraduate students, and to a general audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040334089
• Artikelnr.: 73523088

Autorenporträt

Candace Richards is Assistant Curator, Nicholson Collection for the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Candace's research interests bring together ancient world studies with contemporary museum practice to re-evaluate how and why collections were formed and explore the ways historic collections can offer new insights into human endeavour. Elizabeth Minchin is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the Australian National University. For many years she was Honorary Curator of the ANU Classics Museum, using it extensively in her teaching and overseeing its programme of outreach engagement. She retains a strong interest in antiquities collections and their value, and role, in today's world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Perspectives from Afar; 2. From Antefix to Oenochoe: The Provenance
History of the Mediterranean Collection at Auckland War Memorial T¿maki
Paenga Hira; 3. Ancient Coins in Australian Collections; 4. The Origin of
the Australian Institute of Archaeology Collection and its Purpose Past,
Present, and Future; 5. The Egyptian Collection at the Australian Museum 6.
'A Few Scraps of Pottery and Papyrus': From Antiquities Collection to
Museum at The University of Queensland, circa 1950-1975; 7. Time and
Technology: The Ancient Mediterranean at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney;
8. Objects from a University's Antiquities Collection Enhance Ancient World
Studies in a Purpose-Built Environment: The Case of Arts West at the
University of Melbourne; 9. To See the World in a Marble Toe: The Graeme
Clarke Teaching Collection at the Australian National University's Classics
Museum; 10. Numismatics and the Currency of Online Access; 11. Mind the
Gap! The Tyranny of Distance for Museum Engagement: UNEMA's Significance
2.0; 12. Bridging the distance between Herakles and Pokémon; 13. An
Evolving University Museum Paradigm: Broadening Participation with the
Mediterranean Collections at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney; 14.
Subjective Objects: Using Museum Collections as Catalysts for Social
Well-Being and Identity Exploration; 15. Reimagining Greco-Roman Art in
Colour: A Screen-Based Exhibition Interactive at the National Museum of
Australia; 16. Contemporary Antiquities: Exploring Engagements; 17. Italian
Restitution and the Australian National University's Classics Museum:
Realities and Opportunities; 18. Innovative Approaches to Caring for
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Human Remains at the Chau Chak Wing Museum,
Sydney; 19. The Use of Tikanga in Caring for Egyptian Mummified Remains in
Aotearoa New Zealand; 20. Distribution Guide to the Mediterranean
Collections of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia