Laconia in Sydney: The Spartan Collections of the Chau Chak Wing Museum.

Join archaeologist Dr Daphne Martin and curator Candace Richards for a specialised tour of the University of Sydney’s Spartan collections at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Dr Martin, is visiting from University of Cambridge where she completed her PhD on Laconian Material culture, where her family is from. Dr Martin will share insights into this special region, and what makes the cultural heritage so distinctive. Candace is assistant curator for the antiquities collections held at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, which includes over 6000 objects of Greek origin, and a remarkable archive of photographs of Greece from 1890-1935. Candace will provide an insight into the work with the diaspora communities on cataloguing these collections and how they came to be in Australia.

In this tour you will be introduced to the museum, key objects on display and be invited to go behind-the-scenes in a special handling experience to engage with material from the early 1900s excavations of Sparta.

Pictured above: Dr Daphne Martin

Header Images: Fragment of a black figure Laconian cup, 600-500BC, NM97.183. Mediterranean Identities, Chau Chak Wing Musuem, 2020.