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Teaching with unique collections

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  • Jacket and dress by Chanel

  • Neck amphora

  • Dragon devouring companions of Cadmus by Hendrick Goltzius

  • Bamboo pipes

  • Shakespeare second folio

  • Judith with the head of Holofernes, after Jan Saenredam

  • Kava spoon

  • Alice Anderson in her Hupmobile Touring car

  • Coo-ee! Coo-ee! by Edward H. Tyrrell and Peter L. Tighe

  • Percy Grainger by Rupert Bunny

  • The Pestonjee Bomanjee Journal

  • Polus Antarcticus by Jan Jansson

  • Bookplate for Harold J. Wright by Lionel Lindsay

  • Printmaking tools

  • Nuremberg chronicle by Hartmann Schedel

  • Le mariage d’Antonio

  • Clapsticks

  • Corroboree by Tommy McRae

  • Melbourne City Baths by J.J. and E.J. Clark

  • Salome by Bertram Mackennal

  • Musurgia universalis

  • GWL Marshall Hall by Tom Roberts

  • A philosopher giving a lecture on the orrery by William Pether

  • The grammar of ornament

  • The gold weigher by William Baillie

  • Orientaliora Indiarum Orientalium by Frederik de Wit

  • Lock of hair, belonging to Hans Christian Andersen

  • Le tableau de l’opération de la taille by Marin Marais

  • Account for goods purchased by Percy Grainger

  • Bushrangers by William Strutt

  • Figurine of horse and rider, Cypriot

  • Nova totius Graeciae by Jacob Sandrart

  • The Jubilee, an interesting game

  • A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth

  • The reward of cruelty

  • Pattern layouts by Brian Dettmer

  • University of Melbourne Social Survey

  • Cyril Scott by Francis Derwent Wood

  • Lodoïska: comédie héroïque en trois actes, by Luigi Cherubini

  • Fritz Loewe, meteorologist

  • Life on the Victorian goldfields

  • Melbourne Cricket Ground, attributed to François Cogné

  • Ortus sanitatis

  • Arthur Grenville’s new velocipede galop

  • Micrographia by Robert Hooke

  • The bearers of trophies and bullion, by Andrea Andreani

  • Orbis terrarum by Daniel Stopendael

  • Portrait of Arthur Streeton by Henry Walter Barnett

Teaching with unique collections provides resources, an online showcase, and a virtual setting for teaching and learning in many disciplines. It features objects, books, maps, manuscripts, works of art and other items from the university’s Prints, Rare Books and Rare Music collections, Grainger Museum,  University of Melbourne Archives and Ian Potter Museum of Art.

The site gives students and teachers tools to help them use collection objects as memory aids and springboards into exploration and discussion. It also strengthens connections between students, academics and collections managers, and adds a further dimension to the dynamic role of Arts West in the university’s curriculum.

View experiences of object-based learning with collection managers, academics and students.

Object-based learning in the Arts West lab

Produced by the Faculty of Arts eTeaching Unit

Object-based learning in the subject The Long History of Globalisation

Produced by the Faculty of Arts eTeaching Unit

Students from Encounters with Writing visit the Map Collection

Produced by Shirong Wu and Asher Harrington

Object-based learning with Astronomy in World History

From the Library Map Collection.

Produced by -
Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
History and Philosophy of Science
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

University of Melbourne

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Museums and collections
  • Special Collections
  • Teaching @ Library
  • Map Collection

State

  • Melbourne Museum
  • National Gallery of Victoria
  • State Library Victoria

International

  • British Museum
  • John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
  • University of Birmingham, Research and Cultural Collections
  • University College London, Museums and Collections

The University of Melbourne’s curriculum is rich and varied; it changes from year to year, for more teaching ideas contact a collection manager.

  • Arts West
    • Fiona Moore, Coordinator, Object Based Learning and Collections Management for Arts West
      +61 3 9035 8981, mooref@unimelb.edu.au.

    Arts West

  • Grainger Museum
    • General Enquiries, +61 3 8344 5270, grainger@unimelb.edu.au.
    • Dr Heather Gaunt, Curator, Grainger Museum,
      +61 3 9035 8487, heather.gaunt@unimelb.edu.au.

    Grainger Museum

  • Ian Potter Museum of Art
    • Dr Olivia Meehan, Curator of Academic Programs,
      +61 3 8344 3014, olivia.meehan@unimelb.edu.au.

    Ian Potter Museum of Art

  • Map Collection
    • David B. Jones, Map Curator,
      +61 3 8344 8416, dbj@unimelb.edu.au.

    Map Collection

  • Special Collections
    • Kerrianne Stone, Curator, Prints,
      +61 3 8344 9998, kjstone@unimelb.edu.au,
    • Susan Thomas, Curator, Rare Books (International Collections).
      +61 3 9035 6432, susan.thomas@unimelb.edu.au.
    • Dr Jennifer Hill, Curator, Rare Music,
      +61 3 9035 8671, hillj@unimelb.edu.au.
    • Susan Millard, Special Collections Librarian,
      +61 3 8344 6636, smillard@unimelb.edu.au.

    Special Collections

  • University of Melbourne Archives
    • Katie Wood, Archivist, Access and Outreach,
      +61 3 8344 6848, kathrynw@unimelb.edu.au.

    University of Melbourne Archives

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