Object Matters
The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney's monthly podcast series. Host Dr Craig Barker asks guests to choose any one item to discuss from the museum’s collections of art, archaeology, natural history, science and culture.Podcasts
50: Heba Abd el-Gawad on Rethinking Egyptian Antiquities in Museums
Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 11:53 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
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49: Transport amphora with shell encrustations
Published: Oct. 20, 2023, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds
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48: Researching the Dru Drury butterfly collection
Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 4:52 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 42 seconds
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47: Judy Birmingham and the Archaeological Excavations at Irrawang
Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds
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46: UMAC and University Museums in the 21st Century
Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 12:53 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 39 seconds
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45: Carte-de-visite; photograph of the bird 'Didunculus strigirostris'
Published: Aug. 18, 2023, 12:46 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds
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44: Tracey Hands Up, by Michael Riley (1986)
Published: July 31, 2023, 1:55 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 51 seconds
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43: Two early x-ray tubes made by Harry W Cox
Published: June 25, 2023, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
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42: The Nicholson Hermes
Published: May 22, 2023, 11:39 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 8 seconds
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41: Two ancient Athenian vases depicting dogs
Published: April 16, 2023, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds
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40: Penelope & the Seahorse: Artist Mikala Dwyer
Published: March 22, 2023, 2:19 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 18 seconds
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39: Coin of Roman Emperor Nerva and solar eclipses
Published: March 14, 2023, 1:03 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 40 seconds
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38: An Electrotype of an ancient Lydian coin
Published: Feb. 14, 2023, 9:40 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds
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37: Two Ancient South Italian Red-figure Fish Plates
Published: Jan. 8, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 15 seconds
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36: Ancient Egyptian stele
Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 2:10 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 35 seconds
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35: Lego Tutankhamun and Lego in a museum context with The Brickman
Published: Nov. 25, 2022, 1:09 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 56 seconds
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34: Rethinking Ancient Egyptian Collections
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 1:48 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds
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33: Lantern Slide Portraits of King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales
Published: Aug. 15, 2022, 11:16 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds
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32: Professor Dakin's photograph of snapping shrimps
Published: July 25, 2022, 11:53 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 56 seconds
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31: Bronze Cast of Il Spinario
Published: June 7, 2022, 1:35 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds
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30: Photogrammetry recording of an Athenian tetradrachm
Published: May 15, 2022, 12:20 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 54 seconds
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29: Alan Sonfist's Crystalline enclosure, 1970
Published: May 4, 2022, 3:20 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 52 seconds
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28: Parts from prototypes of the Cotton Aerodynamic Anti-G (CAAG) suit
Published: April 5, 2022, 1:38 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds
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27: Plaster Cast of the relief Boston Throne
Published: March 14, 2022, 12:05 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds
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26: Chinese Willow Pattern Dish
Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 37 seconds
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25: Deadly Delights - An arrangement of Jezebel butterflies
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 5:23 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 46 seconds
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24: A Late Bronze Age Cylinder Seal
Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 11:29 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 55 seconds
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23: The Pearson photographic albums of New Britain
Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 10:55 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds
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21: Campanian red figure bell krater by the Nicholson Painter featuring a warrior
Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 3:51 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds
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20: Hongi Hikas wooden bust
Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds
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19: The faience shabtis of Djedher
Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 11:19 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds
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18: The Thylacine
Published: July 7, 2021, 3:36 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 16 seconds
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17: The Future of Museums
Published: May 28, 2021, 1:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 28 seconds
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16: Thomas Hikade on Sir Flinders Petries Diopolis Parva seriation chart
Published: May 21, 2021, 5:36 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds
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15: The Collection Managers
Published: May 6, 2021, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
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14: Dr Seppi Lehner on an Early Dynastic copper alloy axe from Ur in Iraq
Published: April 8, 2021, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds
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13: Two WWI photographs by Frank Hurley
Published: March 28, 2021, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 8 seconds
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12: Cellist by Walter Bowring
Published: March 3, 2021, 11:01 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds
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11: On artists Lindy Lee and Wang Youshen
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 8 seconds
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10: A Pompeian wall painting fragment
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 16 seconds
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9: Neo Assyrian ivory plaque from Nimrud in Iraq
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 2:27 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds
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8: Promesse de mandat territorial
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds
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7: Cerussite specimen from Broken Hill
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 5:29 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 12 seconds
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6: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclays jar of neurological specimens
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 38 seconds
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5: Deep time in the Sydney basin
Published: Sept. 2, 2020, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 10 seconds
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4: JW Power and Femme a Lombrelle
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds
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3: The scallops gaze: visual culture in the aquarium
Published: July 1, 2020, 1:06 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds
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2: Graveside Gifts - Three white ground lekythoi
Published: June 3, 2020, 1:21 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 8 seconds
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1: The Venetian Queen of Cyprus
Published: May 4, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds
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