Presented by the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum

Sir Charles Nicholson, Australia’s first Baronet, and a founding father of the University of Sydney, travelled in England, Egypt and Italy in the 1850s. The lecture places Nicholson’s travels in Italy in historical context and looks at the antiquities he acquired along the way. They were some of his 1,125 antiquities that were to become the founding collection of what is now the Nicholson Museum.

Michael Turner has been Senior Curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney since 2005. He has created exhibitions on everything from Sigmund Freud’s Antiquities to the Lego Acropolis, now on permanent display in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In April 2016, Alpha and Omega: the Beginning and the End, will be his final major exhibition in the Nicholson before its amalgamation in 2018 into the new Chau Chak Wing Museum.

Michael is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London.

As it is the first event of the year, the lecture will be preceded by a brief AGM and followed by supper in the museum where items of merchandise will be available. All sales help to support our museum.

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