The Nicholson Museum is Australia's oldest University museum and home to a plathura of antiquities
making up the largest collection in the Southern Hemisphere and are proud to announce the current
exhibition of the puzzling Scythian mummies.
The museum was founded in 1860 by Sir Charles Nicholson (Sydney University’s first chancellor 1854-1862),
through a donation of his private collection of antiquities and curiosities. Since this time the museum has been
overseen by 19 different curators, all with different expertise and vision for the development of our collections.
As a result the museum has grown in size and scope, today comprising over 22,000 artefacts of artistic and
archaeological significance from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and the Near East. From the intriguing to the
macabre, the Nicholson Museum provides insight into the minds of the archaeologists, collectors and curators
who have contributed to making our museum a focal point for knowledge not only as we know it but from the
dawn of time.
making up the largest collection in the Southern Hemisphere and are proud to announce the current
exhibition of the puzzling Scythian mummies.
The museum was founded in 1860 by Sir Charles Nicholson (Sydney University’s first chancellor 1854-1862),
through a donation of his private collection of antiquities and curiosities. Since this time the museum has been
overseen by 19 different curators, all with different expertise and vision for the development of our collections.
As a result the museum has grown in size and scope, today comprising over 22,000 artefacts of artistic and
archaeological significance from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and the Near East. From the intriguing to the
macabre, the Nicholson Museum provides insight into the minds of the archaeologists, collectors and curators
who have contributed to making our museum a focal point for knowledge not only as we know it but from the
dawn of time.