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Classics Museum

 

One of the strengths of the Classics Program is its Museum. The Classics Museum provides a study resource for the general public, school and college students, as well as students from Classics, Art History, Archaeology and Anthropology, the Canberra School of Art and the University of Canberra's National Centre for Cultural Heritage Science Studies.

As the Museum is adjacent to the principal teaching rooms of the Program, teachers and students have ready access to the collection. This collection, established in 1962, now comprises some 600 objects from Cyprus, Asia Minor, Greece, and the Roman world. Some of the items are on loan to the Museum from the National Gallery of Australia, from the Parliament House Collection, and from private collectors. The larger part of the collection, however, has been built up over the years as a teaching resource. The items in the collection are used in various ways in the courses taught by the Classics Program, and by other programs, such as Art History. For example, in a course for later-year students, Artefacts and Society in the Greco-Roman World, students work with a broad selection of items from the Roman world - terracotta dishes, bowls and plates, glassware, metalware, and materials associated with early writing - in an attempt to reconstruct aspects of daily life in this era.

An informative leaflet is available in the Museum. This serves as a guide to the collection as a whole. Copies of Antiquities (1981), the catalogue of the collection, are available in the Museum for consultation.