The Nicholson Museum is a museum of antiquities at the University of Sydney. Founded in 1860, it is home to the largest collection of antiquities in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. It is one of the three museums and galleries that make up Sydney University Museums.
The museum opened in 1860 to house the collection of Sir Charles Nicholson.
The Nicholson Museum is situated at the southern end of the Main Quadrangle of the University. Admission is free and open to the public. Hours of admission are 10:00am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday, 1:00pm to 5:00pm every Saturday in January. The museum is closed on public holidays and Sundays.
Previous curators have included William John Woodhouse (1903-1937) Enoch Powell (1938), A.D. Trendall (1938–54) and Alexander Cambitoglou (1962-2000). The current curator is Michael Turner (2005-).
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“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)