Object Matters

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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.

Recent Episodes
  • 52: The statue of William Charles Wentworth and Adelaide Ironside
    Dec 23, 2023 – 58:17
  • 51: Fragment of terracotta cult statue from Cyprus
    Nov 27, 2023 – 49:28
  • 50: Heba Abd el-Gawad on Rethinking Egyptian Antiquities in Museums
    Nov 1, 2023 – 34:50
  • 49: Transport amphora with shell encrustations
    Oct 20, 2023 – 35:23
  • 48: Researching the Dru Drury butterfly collection
    Oct 10, 2023 – 45:42
  • 47: Judy Birmingham and the Archaeological Excavations at Irrawang
    Sep 22, 2023 – 28:04
  • 46: UMAC and University Museums in the 21st Century
    Aug 25, 2023 – 37:39
  • 45: Carte-de-visite; photograph of the bird 'Didunculus strigirostris'
    Aug 18, 2023 – 35:04
  • 44: Tracey Hands Up, by Michael Riley (1986)
    Jul 31, 2023 – 38:51
  • 43: Two early x-ray tubes made by Harry W Cox
    Jun 25, 2023 – 31:49
  • 42: The Nicholson Hermes
    May 22, 2023 – 48:08
  • 41: Two ancient Athenian vases depicting dogs
    Apr 16, 2023 – 34:52
  • 40: Penelope & the Seahorse: Artist Mikala Dwyer
    Mar 22, 2023 – 38:18
  • 39: Coin of Roman Emperor Nerva and solar eclipses
    Mar 14, 2023 – 45:40
  • 38: An Electrotype of an ancient Lydian coin
    Feb 14, 2023 – 27:55
  • 37: Two Ancient South Italian Red-figure Fish Plates
    Jan 8, 2023 – 35:15
  • 36: Ancient Egyptian stele
    Dec 13, 2022 – 45:35
  • 35: Lego Tutankhamun and Lego in a museum context with The Brickman
    Nov 25, 2022 – 36:56
  • 34: Rethinking Ancient Egyptian Collections
    Oct 5, 2022 – 37:05
  • 33: Lantern Slide Portraits of King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales
    Aug 15, 2022 – 31:51
  • 32: Professor Dakin's photograph of snapping shrimps
    Jul 25, 2022 – 37:56
  • 31: Bronze Cast of Il Spinario
    Jun 7, 2022 – 39:53
  • 30: Photogrammetry recording of an Athenian tetradrachm
    May 15, 2022 – 32:54
  • 29: Alan Sonfist's Crystalline enclosure, 1970
    May 4, 2022 – 33:52
  • 28: Parts from prototypes of the Cotton Aerodynamic Anti-G (CAAG) suit
    Apr 5, 2022 – 41:34
  • 27: Plaster Cast of the relief Boston Throne
    Mar 14, 2022 – 39:21
  • 26: Chinese Willow Pattern Dish
    Feb 1, 2022 – 45:37
  • 25: Deadly Delights - An arrangement of Jezebel butterflies
    Dec 16, 2021 – 38:46
  • 24: A Late Bronze Age Cylinder Seal
    Dec 2, 2021 – 22:55
  • 23: The Pearson photographic albums of New Britain
    Nov 16, 2021 – 32:02
  • 22: Applied Arts
    Nov 5, 2021 – 33:46
  • 21: Campanian red figure bell krater by the Nicholson Painter featuring a warrior
    Oct 5, 2021 – 42:07
  • 20: Hongi Hika’s wooden bust
    Sep 7, 2021 – 40:10
  • 19: The faience shabtis of Djedher
    Aug 12, 2021 – 30:25
  • 18: The Thylacine
    Jul 7, 2021 – 51:16
  • 17: The Future of Museums
    May 28, 2021 – 01:12:28
  • 16: Thomas Hikade on Sir Flinders Petrie’s Diopolis Parva seriation chart
    May 21, 2021 – 30:14
  • 15: The Collection Managers
    May 6, 2021 – 40:17
  • 14: Dr Seppi Lehner on an Early Dynastic copper alloy axe from Ur in Iraq
    Apr 8, 2021 – 32:30
  • 13: Two WWI photographs by Frank Hurley
    Mar 28, 2021 – 43:08
  • 12: Cellist by Walter Bowring
    Mar 3, 2021 – 25:38
  • 11: On artists Lindy Lee and Wang Youshen
    Feb 23, 2021 – 35:08
  • 9: Neo Assyrian ivory plaque from Nimrud in Iraq
    Jan 28, 2021 – 33:28
  • 8: Promesse de mandat territorial
    Dec 1, 2020 – 37:41
  • 7: Cerussite specimen from Broken Hill
    Nov 19, 2020 – 24:12
  • 6: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s jar of neurological specimens
    Oct 8, 2020 – 45:38
  • 5: Deep time in the Sydney basin
    Sep 2, 2020 – 34:10
  • 4: JW Power and Femme à L’ombrelle
    Aug 4, 2020 – 17:45
  • 3: The scallop’s gaze: visual culture in the aquarium
    Jul 1, 2020 – 26:56
  • 2: Graveside Gifts - Three white ground lekythoi
    Jun 3, 2020 – 22:08
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