Greek core-formed alabastron, University of New England Museum of Antiquities, Armidale

In 1956 Maurice Nugent Kelly (1919-2011), then a staff member in the Department of Classics at the University of New England, conceived the idea of starting a museum to support teaching at UNE. In 1959, with the acquisition of seventeen Cypriot ceramics dating from the 10th to 7th centuries BC, the Museum of Classics was established. Support for the museum was provided by UNE Registrar, Tom Lamble; Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney, Basil Hennessy; and Chair of Greek and Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney, Dale Trendall.