Museum of Ancient Cultures

MUSEUM CLOSURE NOTICE: The Museum of Ancient Cultures will be closed until further notice as museum staff begin preparations to move to the new Arts Precinct in 2020. Check the website for updates on the opening of the new museum: mac.mq.edu.au 📷 Met Museum staff,1939

@TularRasnal @Macquarie_Uni @DeanMcmah For more information on the provenance research going on at @MACmuseumMQ you can get in touch with our Musum director Prof. Martin Bommas or email us at macbookings@mq.edu.au

Our Collection Condition reporting continues in prep for our move to the new @Macquarie_Uni Arts Precinct & we’ve been finding lots a gems in our collection, like this terracotta Etruscan wall fragment showing a warrior with shield dating to c.600-500bc #objectoftheday @DeanMcmah

Today we bid farewell to the museum’s phenomenal Education Program Manager Dr Eve Guerry. Eve has made an incredible contribution to the museum & MQ over the years as a natural educator, talented academic and archaeologist, generous mentor, supportive colleague & much more! 💐

Have you checked out our school resources page for all things ancient history and archaeology?! It has resources for teachers and students galore! mq.edu.au/ancient-histor…

With our permit approved, the Perachora Peninsula Archaeological Project is underway!! With thanks to @AncientHistMQ @MACmuseumMQ @cachemq and Martina Möllering for their support!

First week of @ifaocaire & @Macquarie_Uni excavations at Dendara. Things are already off to a great start. Here’s to another fantastic field season!

This week I’m hitting the road with MQ’s Widening Participation Unit @MqUnit We’ll be in the Upper Hunter Region all week running university “taster” sessions with local High Schoolers... stay tuned for all the action!

The museum birthday celebrations continue! Happy Birthday Education super⭐️ @alexkujanpaa. A day spent amongst the artefacts... best birthday ever???

🚨🚨Looking for ancient history resources for teaching in schools? Visit the new Resources for Schools website developed by @MACmuseumMQ @AncientHistMQ mq.edu.au/ancient-histor… Its compiled everything from a virtual site study of Khirbet el-Rai in Israel to the City of Rome blog!!

Yesterday, we celebrated our museum champion @DeanMcmah’s birthday!!! Once again Hadrian was in full swing - a real party boy that one! #noartefactswereharmedinthemakingmakingofthis

Wishing you all the best Jane, we’ll be tuning into all your future endeavours!

In her ten years at @Macquarie_Uni, Jane has been instrumental in ensuring that the incredible collection at the Museum is accessible to researchers and educators not only amongst the Modern History Department but across the MQ campus.

From everyone at @MACmuseumMQ farewell and thank you to Jane Thorgersen, Manager of the @austhistomuseum

Education Super🌟 @alexkujanpaa has chosen MU3734 a small Roman juglet with black glaze decoration as #objectoftheday Though it might seem ordinary take a closer look at fingerprint left behind by the artist... a little gift from antiquity 📷 Effy Alexakis

#Objectoftheday Our resident art connoisseur @ekcooper2010 has chosen this Attic Lekythos MU0105 dating to the 5th cent BC. Have you ever seen such a squat duck? 🦆 📷 Effy Alexakis PHOTOWRITE

Introducing our first speaker for the @cachemq workshop: “Exploring the Past With Data” - Dr Rowan McLaughlin of @britishmuseum “Data-driven archaeology: A new paradigm for research and understanding” @rowanofravara @AncientHistMQ #EPWDMQ @Archaeology_MQ

Professor David Christian, quoting Schrödinger, we need “The keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge”! #EPWDMQ @cachemq @AncientHistMQ @RKP_Industries

How do we communicate the importance of our research into the past to policy makers and politicians so that it can be used to improve the trajectory of humanity in an age of environmental crisis? @RKP_Industries @AncientHistMQ @Archaeology_MQ @MACmuseumMQ #EPWDMQ

Congrats to @cachemq and @Archaeology_MQ on a stellar day of inspiring and intellectual talks on “Exploring the Past with Data” featuring a long list of amazing speakers and future Humanities leaders! Check out @cachemq @Archaeology_MQ @RKP_Industries for more on what went down!