The Ian Potter Museum of Art is holding a series of floor talks open to the public. The talks run from 30th April until the 18th June and cover a range of topics based around archaeological investigations in Melbourne and elsewhere in Victoria, with a particular focus on objects in the collections of Heritage Victoria. All talks are free to attend, no bookings required. For further details on each talk see the links below.
Curator talk – Secret lives, forgotten stories: highlights from Heritage Victoria’s archaeological collection
Wednesday 30 April 1-1.30pm | Dr Andrew Jamieson, Curator, Classics & Archaeology, University of Melbourne
‘Good Taste, Fashion, Luxury: a genteel Melbourne family and their rubbish’ on Viewbank Homestead, Heidelberg
Saturday 3 May 2-2-3.00pm | Dr Sarah Hayes, ARC Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Environment and Community Planning, La Trobe University
‘Needlework and child’s play’ on Cohen Place, Chinatown excavations in 1998
Wednesday 21 May 1-1.30pm | Sarah Myers, Director, ArchLink
‘Presumed Ned: the discovery of the lost Pentridge burials’
Saturday 24 May 2-3pm | Jeremy Smith, Senior Archaeologist, Heritage Victoria
‘The artefact behind the artefact[s] on Bendigo Chinese brick kiln site
Wednesday 4 Jun 2014, 1.00- 1.30pm | David Bannear, Archaeologist, Heritage Victoria
‘The secret artefact collection: Heritage Victoria’s role in preserving the state’s historical archaeology’
Wednesday 18 June 1-1:30pm | Susanna Collis and Annie Muir, Curators, Heritage Victoria
