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MUSE Issue 16, March 2017 Sydney Issue 16 University March 2017 Museums New museum In this issue moves swiftly ahead 14 Something fishy 26 Perfect specimens William Macleay’s legacy We explore the enduring A word from the Director continues with the naming of a impact of the Macleay family’s new species of fish. fascination with insects. 2016 was a big year for the curator in April. Candace Richards oldest insects to Dru Drury’s 1782 16 Made in Japan 28 Come walk with us University’s museums and has been acting as senior curator volume on natural history; Dr Ann Six prints in the University Art A stroll through the collections. The museums and art of the Nicholson Museum in the Stephen reveals a new portrait by Collection reflect one alumna’s Camperdown Campus takes gallery remained as popular as ever interim period. We also welcome acclaimed local artist Daniel Boyd; fascination with Japan. you past a surprising array of with more than 100,000 visitors Ross Clendinning, project manager and Katrina Liberiou reflects on new modern artworks. enjoying a vibrant program of for museum fit-out, to the team. research being undertaken on the 18 Scenes from the Nile exhibitions, talks and events. University’s collection of icons. It Conservation work provides As curators and researchers develop includes the exquisite icon featured remarkable insights into a rich We secured capital works funding new exhibitions for the museum, on the cover of this issue. floor fresco from Ancient Egypt. for the new Chau Chak Wing fascinating stories are emerging Museum and confirmed its location about our collections and individual For details and updates of museum 21 Iconic images on University Avenue. Design and items within them. These stories programs and progress of the A visiting author and art planning for the new museum that often relate to who collected them Chau Chak Wing Museum, visit professor offers a fascinating will bring together all the collections and to how they came to be in the sydney.edu.au/museums new perspective on religious in a new purpose-built facility is University’s cultural and scientific David Ellis icons in the University Art forging ahead. collections. In many instances Director Collection. these background stories are as With the exhibition galleries in the interesting as the objects. 02 When one door closes 24 Where there’s a weft Macleay Museum and the Art Gallery We bid a fond farewell to the there’s a way now closed, our visitor focus is on In this issue, Dr Wendy Reade Macleay Museum, reflect on The internet provides a new the Nicholson Museum, which will investigates the meticulous work a much-loved space and look fanbase for a group of Coptic remain open until construction of needed to piece back together ahead to a new one. Egyptian domestic textiles. the new museum is complete. a significant but largely unseen 30 Saving paper 3300-year-old section of decorated 06 Portrait of a pioneer The complexities of treating Last year we farewelled Michael pavement from ancient Amarna; Dr A new artwork pays a stunning a newly acquired watercolour Turner, who retired after 11 years of Jude Philp reflects on the Macleay tribute to one of the University’s painting. exemplary service as senior curator Museum and the closing of the greatest alumni – the late of the Nicholson Museum. This museum’s exhibition galleries; Dr Charles Perkins. 32 A fond farewell year we welcome Dr Jamie Fraser, Dr Tony Gill, with the help of school Closing celebrations for two of currently at the British Museum, students, names a new species of 09 Antiquity lost our museums. We explore the destruction of who will start duties as senior fish; Rob Blackburn links one of our David Ellis, photo by Martin Ho important archaeological sites 33 Donor honour roll during the recent Middle East conflicts. 34 Making history Sydney University Museums Education and Public Programs Muse edited by Candace Richards and All the news on University of Comprising the Macleay Museum, To book a school excursion, an adult education Luke Parker. Nicholson Museum and University Art Gallery tour or a University heritage tour 12 From architecture to art form Sydney Museums. +61 2 9351 8746 Produced by Marketing and Communications, Part 1 of a new Muse series The Macleay Museum and the University Art [email protected] the University of Sydney, February 2017. 17/6271 Gallery are now closed as we prepare for the ISSN 1449-0420 ABN 15 211 513 464 profiles a museum whose 36 Find your muse opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum in 2018. Macleay Museum CRICOS 00026A architecture is as thought- For your diary: everything Enquiries: The Nicholson Museum remains open: 61 2 9036 5253 provoking as its artworks. that’s coming up. Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.30pm and [email protected] Forest Stewardship Council the first Saturday of every month, 12 to 4pm (FSC®) is a globally recognised Closed on public holidays. Nicholson Museum certification overseeing all fibre General admission is free. In the southern entrance to the Quadrangle sourcing standards. This provides guarantees for the consumer that +61 2 9351 2812 products are made of woodchips Become a fan on Facebook +61 2 9351 7305 (fax) from well-managed forests and and follow us on Twitter. [email protected] other controlled sources with Above: Ohara Shōson, Above: Macleay Museum’s Entomology Front cover: Artist unknown, strict environmental, economical The Snow on Willow in the old museum, photo by John [Madonna and Child with saints and sydney.edu.au/museums University Art Gallery and social standards. Bridge on the Shewan, c.1900 (HP83.63.18). angels], c.1450–60, donated through Enquiries Sumida River, 1927, See story on page 2 the Hon. RP Meagher bequest 2011 (UA1990.730). See (UA2012.688). See story on page 21 Sydney University Museums Administration +61 2 9351 6883 story on page 16 Above left: Burnt ivory palette +61 2 9351 2274 [email protected] with carved sphinx, 911-612BC, +61 2 9351 2881 (fax) (NM59.4). See story on page 9 [email protected] 1 Left: Rob Blackburn working on entomology collections Right: Cabinet drawers of echinoderms and reef specimens in their original pink boxes Tuesday 22 November 2016 was particularly busy. In the ethnography and one in natural history, patiently and gallery, Natural History Curator Tony Gill introduced steadily photographing the collections for online access. Year 9 students to taxonomy and the challenges of naming and identifying new species. At the other end The Curator of Ethnography Collections, Rebecca of the gallery, Matt Poll, Curator for the Aboriginal and Conway, was in Kiribati on long-service leave but not Torres Strait Islander heritage in our care, was working missing the opportunity to learn and talk with people with a group from Tranby National Indigenous Training about the collections. And between coordinating When one College on educational opportunities between our volunteers for the gallery and assisting the ABC film crew, two Institutions. Curatorial Assistant Rob Blackburn was busy locating insect specimens from the 1790s within the entomology door closes Meanwhile, the ABC was getting ready to film the cabinets to answer overseas research enquiries. closing days of the Macleay. By the afternoon, with – filming in full swing, and between meetings to plan Yet one of the most common remarks visitors make in for exhibitions in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum, I the Macleay gallery is “it’s so lovely and quiet here, you started preparations to host the Australasia Society’s must have a great job”. It is absolutely true that I have Dr Jude Philp recounts the last days of the end-of-year drinks, getting out little-seen items to talk an enjoyable and rewarding job, thanks to the variety of about with the group. activities, the people we meet, and the vast collections Macleay Museum and says a fond farewell to a of the Macleay that connect us to so many places, beloved space – while looking ahead to a new one. That same day in the photography store, History Curator historical events and peoples across the world. But it is Jan Brazier worked with the photographic collections, certainly not a quiet job. And so we made the decision assisting first academic then curatorial and student to close the gallery and prepare in earnest for the task visitors with their research. Three teams of workers of moving the collections and creating new exhibitions Above: Southeast corner of the Macleay Building occupied the stores, one in photography, one in for the Chau Chak Wing Museum. c.1900, Macleay Museum (HP83.57.12) 2 3 of thousands of pinned and preserved entomological as he marked off and itemised each shell during the species. However, with the assistance of the Australian pioneering Chevert expedition to the Torres Strait and Museum and University of Sydney specialists, Hahn southern New Guinea in 1875. These ephemeral items are compiled a 180-page monograph duly listing the rarely preserved in museums and are part of what makes enormous number of designated type specimens. the Macleay collections unique, conserving both the history of museum practice along with the collections Another undergraduate, Jenny Anderson, took over that still have enormous purpose in the world. the curator position in the 1960s and continued to work away steadily at the collection, systematically During Peter Stanbury’s tenure as director in the assigning numbers to the specimens and objects for 1980s, the collections significantly expanded to include the first time. Vanessa Mack’s time as director gave important scientific instruments used in the University’s rise to the beginnings of a web-accessible catalogue, research and teaching and a 60,000+ photographic as the Macleay collections joined three other national collection.
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