News and Events
World Tipitaka Presentation Live On Visions Site
The World Tipitaka - the Romanised edition of the Theravada Buddhist scriptural canon - was recently presented as a ‘royal gift of peace and wisdom’ to the University of Melbourne.
View the podcast on the Visions site.
Melbourne Newsroom article.
Ian Potter Foundation Supports Tiegs Zoology Museum
The Ian Potter Foundation has generously provided a grant to the University’s Tiegs Zoology Museum, which is part of the Department of Zoology in the Faculty of Science, to purchase new, museum-quality display cases. Additional funds are being contributed by a private donor and by the Zoology Department. When the Zoology Department moved to its then-new building in 1989, there was not enough space to display all the interesting specimens in the Tiegs collection. Now additional space has been made available, to accommodate new showcases and enable the Tiegs Museum to exhibit specimens which have not been on general display for the last 20 years, such as a lion skeleton and a mounted wedge-tailed eagle. In this way these generous donations of funds will bring about a significant and lasting improvement in the quality of exhibits in the Tiegs Museum.
University Desk Calendar 2010
The cultural collections feature on the University’s desk calendar for 2010. Fascinating artefacts, illustrations and artworks from the Grainger Museum, University Art Collection, Earth Sciences Library Rare Book Collection, Classics and Archaeology Collection, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Rare and Historic Maps Collection, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne Archives and the Medical History Museum illustrate this handy CD-size calendar. It makes an excellent gift which lasts until February 2011, and is available from the Melbourne University Bookshop for $16.00 including GST, or bulk purchases of 20 units can be ordered by University staff by emailing c.garrivan at unimelb.edu.au.
UMA Bulletin
The August 2009 issue of UMA Bulletin, News from the University of Melbourne Archives, is available.
Cypriot Antiquities in the Collection of the University of Melbourne
A full catalogue of the Cypriot antiquities in the University’s Classics and Archaeology Collection, located at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, is now available. Written by Sally Salter, a long-time researcher of this important collection, the book is generously illustrated and available from the publisher or the University Bookroom. The objects date from the early Bronze Age (c. 2500 BCE), through middle and late Bronze Age and all phases of the Iron Age and Hellenistic times to the Roman era (c. 200 CE). They are principally pottery items, including some very handsome painted jugs, amphorae and bowls from the much-admired Cypriot geometric and archaic periods.
Chemistry Past, Present and Future
A new display from the School of Chemistry Collection.
News
‘Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum approved for the Cultural Gifts Program’, Dent-al: Alumni Newsletter [of the School of Dental Science, University of Melbourne], issue 12, 2009, p10.
Belinda Nemec, 'Three collections and a rare book', Melbourne University Magazine, 4 September 2009.
'Classical gift to the Potter', Melbourne University Magazine, 2 September 2009.
'Official Opening of the Physics Museum', School of Physics Alumni and Friends Newsletter, issue 9, 2009.
Morfia Grondas, Andrea Hurt and Stephanie Jaehrling, 'Baillieu Library 50th anniversary celebration', inCite, vol. 30, issue 9, September 2009, pp. 12-13.
Silvia Dropulich, 'Everybody loves a road trip', The Voice, vol. 5, no. 4, 13 July-9 August 2009, p. 7.
Rare Aboriginal bark paintings at the Potter, MUSSE Newsletter, 8 July 2009.
David and Marion Adams Collection takes up residence at the Potter Gallery, MUSSE Newsletter, 13 May 2009.
University welcomes new Librarian, MUSSE Newsletter, 22 April 2009.
Did you know…The Herbarium, MUSSE Newsletter, 22 April 2009.
Corrie Perkin, ‘First impressions: Corrie Perkin meets David Adams’, Weekend Australian, 4-5 April 2009, Review section, p. 3.
Fiona Willan, ‘Helping forgotten treasures to sparkle once more’, Annual giving update, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations), University of Melbourne, March 2009, p. 3.
Did you know… The Harry Brooks Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, MUSSE Newsletter, 18 March 2009.
Katherine Smith, 'Chemistry Past, Present and Future', The Voice, vol. 4, no. 3, 9 March-12 April 2009, p. 15.