Exhibitions

This major exhibition explores luminosity, movement and politics through the University of Sydney’s extensive Power Collection of international contemporary art.

This exhibition uses stunning material from the Museum's historic photography and natural history collections related to Australian Seashores, an important textbook published in 1952 by the University's Professor WJ Dakin.

Contemporary Art Project #3 explores D Harding and Kate Harding's multi-layered practices and the artists' relationship to Carnarvon Gorge.

The latest exhibition in our China Gallery highlights the communicative power of paper.

Two exhibitions, The Mummy Room and Pharaonic Obsessions, reveal new ideas about life in ancient Egypt and explore our fascination with the land of the Pharaohs.

An interdisciplinary exhibition introducing the Chau Chak Wing Museum collections through six evocative themes.

Meet the 'Ambassadors', cultural materials gathered to speak the ancient knowledge of this country. An ongoing First Nations display.

Ghostly faces and names recorded in stone are reanimated through stories of life in the vibrant cities of the Roman world.

The most intriguing bird, mammal, insect, fish and shell specimens from the Macleay Collections.

Artists have always been captivated by the ocean. In 'Coastline', over 40 artists take on this monumental theme.

Ancient Greek artefacts meet the landscapes of modern Greece captured by William J Woodhouse.

Homer named the Mediterranean ‘wine-dark sea’, its dangers disguised by its beauty.

JW Power was an Australian artist whose geometry-inspired paintings saw him join the avant-garde scene in 1930s Paris.

Working across clay, stone and metal, Cypriot artists developed rich creative traditions making Cyprus one of the cultural powerhouses of antiquity.

When taxonomists began to name the thousands of plant and animal species, they drew on Classical myths and legends for inspiration.

A showcase of the scientific instruments which examines optics, the field of science that studies the nature and behaviour of light.

From Ice Age villages to the Islamic world, encounter some of the earliest cities, writing, and religion.