Book launch: Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives from Afar
For those of us in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the ancient Mediterranean world is remote both in time and, crucially, place. This remoteness generates different experiences of, and new perspectives on, the ancient Mediterranean past and its reception. With these new perspectives come novel ideas and fresh approaches. This collaborative volume brings together, for the first time, museum professionals and academics from national and state museums with university collections to offer their perspectives on the legacies of these collections and their changing yet continued relevancies in the 21st century.
Join co-editors Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Minchin and Candace Richards and authors Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, Tobi Fulton and Dr Melanie Pitkin as they introduce the research embedded in this volume and its primary themes of provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and museum ethics.
The book will then be officially launched by Michael Dagostino, Director Museums and Cultural Engagement at The University of Sydney.
This event will be held in person and online. For in person attendees, enjoy a catered reception following the event, with copies of the book available from the museum shop at a special launch-night price.
Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives from Afar is edited by Candace Richards and Elizabeth Minchin and published by Routledge 2025
Our contributors:
- Emma Ash and Deirdre Harrison, Auckland War Memorial Tāmaki Paenga Hira
- Kenneth A. Sheedy, The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies, Macquarie University
- Christopher J. Davey and Lisa Mawdsley, Australian Institute of Archaeology
- Stan Florek, Irene Guidotti, David Chan, and Ourania Mihas, Australian Museum
- James Donaldson and Amelia R. Brown, Rd Milns Museum, The University of Queensland
- Brit Asmussen, James Cook University, formerly Queensland Museum
- Alina Kozlovski and Bronwyn Hopwood, University of New England
- Andrew Jamieson, The University of Melbourne
- Elizabeth Minchin, Georgia Pike-Rowney and Maggie Otto, Australian National University
- Daniel Osland, Gwynaeth McIntyre, The University of Otago
- Anne Harlow and Robert Morris (previously), Tūhura Otago Museum
- Diana Burton, Victoria University, Wellington
- Candace Richards, Melanie Pitkin, Jane Thogersen, Eve Guerry, and Paul Donnelly, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney
- Jacinta Carruthers, Alexandra Doubleday, and Ronika K. Power, Macquarie University
- Rafie Cecilia, King’s College, London
- Caleb R. Hamilson, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
Presented with support of the Nicholas Anthony Aroney Trust Greek Cultural Fund.
Images: Antiquities Revealed, 2019, Queensland Museum. An ancient Egyptian kohl jar, being held in the hands to enable a sense of direct connection with the past. Photographer: Peter Waddington ( © Queensland Museum).
Cover of Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand