Exhibitions

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

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.

Explore the labours of Hercules through the animals, art and cultural artefacts that have carried his name through the ages. 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The latest exhibition in our China Gallery highlights the communicative power of paper as an ancient enlightening technology, an embodiment of knowledge, a vehicle for political and philosophical ideologies, as well as an expressive artistic medium.

Explore the labours of Hercules through the animals, art and cultural artefacts that have carried his name through the ages. 

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

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

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