The Carabinieri’s brand new museum - Museo dell’Arte Salvata - features artifacts rescued from trafficked and unethical museums/collectors. Located in the Aula Ottagona of the Baths of Diocletian, it’s an incredible setting.

Join Senior Curators Dr Jude Philp and Dr Melanie Pitkin (Melanie Pitkin) this Saturday for a free tour investigating the usage, chemistry and industry of red colouration across our collections.

Be sure to register now as spots are limited 🎟️

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Sept 1 hybrid Sydney Chau Chak Wing Museum 6.30pm AEST - Professor Meg Miller, From Prairie to Antipodes: A Life in Ruins. Register: eventbrite.com.au/e/from-prairie… 'At the end of June.., Meg retired.. she has kindly agreed to make a retrospective presentation about her career in #archaeology ..'

We are currently working with Egyptian conservator and papyri specialist, Arzak Mohamed, to re-house some of our #egyptian #papyri incl this exquisite Ptolemaic #bookofthedead from Saqqara (NMR.85.1-6). Just look at the meticulous detail in the Osiris vignette Chau Chak Wing Museum

A British chamberpot with a built-in small bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, ca.1803-05.

Paphos, Cyprus in art #24
Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727-1798) German, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham from the South, oil on canvas 1755-9. Yale Library.
The house's then owner Sir Horace Walpole once wrote: 'Strawberry Hill is grown a perfect Paphos. 'T is the land of beauty'.

Hidden sisters

So we heard you like peep shows 👀 This gorgeous glimpse into Les Jardin des Tuileries in the 1830s is a vibrant example of a peepshow book – an accordion-shaped book that creates a sense of depth.

My mate Kubrick wants to remind you it’s #InternationalDogDay today so give him a pat or a belly rub (or preferably both)

Penguins chasing a butterfly.. 😊

Excited to see this volume out. DM if you would like access to Diana & my paper.

Excited to see the Eucalyptusdom exhibition MAAS one more time with colleagues from Chau Chak Wing Museum - just as stunning and moving an exhibition as the first time I saw it. Don’t miss out before it closes

ICOM is pleased to announce that the proposal for the new #MuseumDefinition was approved.

🏛️ ecs.page.link/rCFHZ

Ask a Curator has changed its name to #AskaMuseum to better represent the broad range of people working in our cultural institutions.

Get your museum involved by downloading the free resources on askamuseum.com

It’s Wednesday night it’s #homepubquiz time. A movie question tonight.

Which is the only country to have had only two actresses nominated for the Best Actress Oscar twice each, and with both of them winning the award in their first attempt?

Your annual reminder that although it is claimed, today probably wasn’t the day that Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 burying the landscape in volcanic debris and covering the Roman cities of #Pompeii and #Herculaneum as well as other settlements and rural villas in the area.

Thanks CAARI Director Dr Lindy #Crew for touring #Australian Deputy Michelle Anderson through #Kissonegra - #Skalia #archaeological site in #Paphos . Dr Crewe has led excavations at the site since 2007 and helped to unearth an Early Bronze Age complex dating back to 2,500 BC