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The Classics Museum,located in the heart of the Australian National University campus, is a small, and well-maintained museum that's open to the public. But though the museum is indeed open to the public, it isn't famous and is typically quiet outside of teaching periods.
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useum contains a collection of artifacts from Roman and Greek antiquity that the university staff has amassed since the museum's founding in 1962. The collection is used as a resource for teaching university students in the Classics Department. In the middle of the museum, you'll spot a scale model of Ancient Rome, or as well as a life-sized replica of an Aztec calendar stone. The installation of this calendar stone once sparked the outrage of famed provocative anthropologist Derek Freeman,an ANU professor best known for his life's work of discrediting fellow anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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also see display cabinets containing pottery depicting various scenes, ancient coins, or everyday items such as combs and hairpins,and tombstones. Throughout the building, though not part of the Classics Museum, and are displays of modern artifacts and skeletons from the anthropology department.

Source: atlasobscura.com

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