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Object Matters — 51 episodes

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52: The statue of William Charles Wentworth and Adelaide Ironside

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51: Fragment of terracotta cult statue from Cyprus

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50: Heba Abd el-Gawad on Rethinking Egyptian Antiquities in Museums

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49: Transport amphora with shell encrustations

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48: Researching the Dru Drury butterfly collection

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47: Judy Birmingham and the Archaeological Excavations at Irrawang

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46: UMAC and University Museums in the 21st Century

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45: Carte-de-visite; photograph of the bird 'Didunculus strigirostris'

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44: Tracey Hands Up, by Michael Riley (1986)

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43: Two early x-ray tubes made by Harry W Cox

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42: The Nicholson Hermes

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41: Two ancient Athenian vases depicting dogs

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40: Penelope & the Seahorse: Artist Mikala Dwyer

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39: Coin of Roman Emperor Nerva and solar eclipses

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38: An Electrotype of an ancient Lydian coin

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37: Two Ancient South Italian Red-figure Fish Plates

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36: Ancient Egyptian stele

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35: Lego Tutankhamun and Lego in a museum context with The Brickman

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34: Rethinking Ancient Egyptian Collections

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33: Lantern Slide Portraits of King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales

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32: Professor Dakin's photograph of snapping shrimps

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31: Bronze Cast of Il Spinario

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30: Photogrammetry recording of an Athenian tetradrachm

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29: Alan Sonfist's Crystalline enclosure, 1970

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28: Parts from prototypes of the Cotton Aerodynamic Anti-G (CAAG) suit

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27: Plaster Cast of the relief Boston Throne

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26: Chinese Willow Pattern Dish

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25: Deadly Delights - An arrangement of Jezebel butterflies

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24: A Late Bronze Age Cylinder Seal

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23: The Pearson photographic albums of New Britain

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22: Applied Arts

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21: Campanian red figure bell krater by the Nicholson Painter featuring a warrior

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20: Hongi Hika’s wooden bust

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19: The faience shabtis of Djedher

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18: The Thylacine

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17: The Future of Museums

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16: Thomas Hikade on Sir Flinders Petrie’s Diopolis Parva seriation chart

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15: The Collection Managers

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14: Dr Seppi Lehner on an Early Dynastic copper alloy axe from Ur in Iraq

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13: Two WWI photographs by Frank Hurley

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12: Cellist by Walter Bowring

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11: On artists Lindy Lee and Wang Youshen

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9: Neo Assyrian ivory plaque from Nimrud in Iraq

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8: Promesse de mandat territorial

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7: Cerussite specimen from Broken Hill

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6: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s jar of neurological specimens

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5: Deep time in the Sydney basin

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4: JW Power and Femme à L’ombrelle

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3: The scallop’s gaze: visual culture in the aquarium

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2: Graveside Gifts - Three white ground lekythoi

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1: The Venetian Queen of Cyprus