Event Name: Secret Life of Books in the Museum: The Odyssey

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Join us for a lunchtime lecture about Homer's Odyssey, exploring its origins, the characters, its lasting influence.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-11T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-11T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Homer Goes to Hollywood: Exploring The Odyssey on Screen

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Dr Estelle Lazer and Dr Craig Barker discuss Homer, Hollywood and the never-ending quest to capture the ancient world on screen.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-17T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-17T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Diggers, Drones, Data, and Diplomacy

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Join us for a lunchtime lecture on the power of big data in combating cultural heritage looting and shaping cultural diplomacy.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-18T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-18T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Postcards from Antarctica

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: An evening of conversation, talks and art featuring scientists, researchers and artists who have explored the shores of Antarctica

Event Start Date: 2026-08-18T18:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-18T20:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Antarctica: Art, Science and a Continent Beyond Imagination

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Experience Antarctica through the lenses of art, film and science with Canadian multimedia artist Peter McLeish.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-21T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-21T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Afterlives Interrupted

Event Location: The Place of Truth exhibition gallery, Level 2, Chau Chak Wing Museum

Summary: A gallery tour led by members of the ground-breaking Human Remains Research Project team.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-21T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-30T15:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Science and Maths at the Museum

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Summary: Come join us for free family friendly Maths and Science activities at the museum during National Science Week!

Event Start Date: 2026-08-22T12:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-23T16:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas: Transnational Exchanges in Architecture and Art

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: A symposium exploring how the movement of people, objects, and expertise reshapes art, architecture and their cultural meanings.

Event Start Date: 2026-08-27T10:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-28T17:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: The 17th Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Evoking Country: towards a land-based performing arts praxis

Event Start Date: 2026-08-31T17:30:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-08-31T20:30:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Practice as Research: Approaches to Practice as New Knowledge Production

Event Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Summary: Join us for a one-day symposium exploring Practice as Research as a vital mode of knowledge production.

Event Start Date: 2026-09-14T09:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-09-14T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Museum in Motion: MADSOC

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Summary: An afternoon of dance and movement across the museum by the University of Sydney Union’s MADSOC (Movement and Dance Society).

Event Start Date: 2026-09-15T12:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-09-15T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Madrigal Society in the Museum

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Summary: Join us for an afternoon of acapella choral harmony

Event Start Date: 2026-09-20T13:00:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-09-20T14:00:00.000+10:00

Event Name: Music in the Museum with JazzSoc

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Summary: Join us for live jazz among the museum’s collections as JazzSoc brings the space to life with music.

Event Start Date: 2026-09-21T14:30:00.000+10:00

Event End Date: 2026-09-21T16:30:00.000+10:00