Museum of Classical Archaeology

The museum displays a representative collection of glass, metal and pottery from the Bronze Age to the end of Antiquity. This includes artefacts from archaeological excavations in Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, from prehistoric hand-axes to pottery excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur in Mesopotamia and by Garstang at Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt. 

We also have pottery from across the major periods in Greek prehistory and history, from Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece to Classical Athens and the wider Hellenistic world. 

Our Italian collection includes pottery and metal from Etruria in northern Italy, as well as a modelled terracotta sarcophagus from Tarquinia. There are sculptural and architectural fragments, lamps and jewellery from Roman Italy, as well as material acquired under permit from the joint German-Australian Project at Pompeii in the 1980s. Thanks to a generous donation, we now also have a large collection of pottery and other objects from Roman Britain, as well as from Roman and Byzantine Egypt. These includes some papyri and also a woven textile fragment from Late Antiquity.