Nicholson Museum

Walk in without any intention but quite impressive. It's good to bring your kids or persons who love history to this place. There are many interesting items from Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures in one place. Staff are very friendly and you are allowed to touch some items with the supervision of their staff. Again, very impressive..😃

The Nicholson Museum permanently closed in February 2020. The Nicholson Collection is now on display at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Weekdays 10am – 5pm Thursday evenings until 9pm Weekends 12pm – 4pm Closed public holidays

A small but lovely museum, the oldest in Australia & free to visit.

Love the mummies Actually the exhibition was a lot more attractive than I thought

Feeling amazing with seeing so many ancient Greek antiquities. Pity is a bit noisy with the massive tourist groups.

Really cute museum. Worth the detour if you’re a local but if you’re passing through it might not to be enough to justify the trip, so maybe walk around the campus as well.

Very well curated museum, informative displays, picturesque location, free entry and very knowledgeable staff

It was great time with my two children.

Sneaky, sneaky! Look at you all all hidden up inside a theatre of higher learning. "Hidden gem" is a vastly overused term in today's day and age, but I'm using it here as this place pretty much defines the term. Tucked inside the sandstone castle of Hogwarts AKA the Sydney Uni quad you'll find a museum with a focus on the stories behind objects, which is just super awesome as stories are not just the best way we interact but the best way to engage people. I checked out the 50 Objects, 50 Stories exhibition and it didn't pull any punches, from necrophilia to grave robbers to DIY mummification.

The current exhibit, "50 Objects, 50 Stories" is expertly curated and well-designed with thorough descriptions of each piece and its historical relevance. Very nicely laid out. Definitely worth stopping in if you're on campus.

As a collection of antiquities, the Nicholson Museum is pretty incredible. There are several real Egyptian mummies, Attic pitchers with classical greek scenes painted on them, Roman figures, and insanely ancient weapons from dawn-of-time Mesopotamia. If you are a classics or history nerd your brain might explode in this place. There's a lot of information on the walls (maybe too much?). If you wanted to read everything, you would have to spend all day there. I found some things were badly labelled (like signs that referred to "item #6" even though there was no #6 in the glass case) but otherwise the history was very interesting. I also like the sombre/creepy music that was on a loop the whole time I was there. And it's free! As every museum should be.