Guided Tour: 'Wondrous Machines' at RD Milns Antiquities Museum

Name: Guided Tour: 'Wondrous Machines' at RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Start: 2025-03-01T11:00:00+1000
End: 2025-03-01T14:30:00+1000
Location: RD Milns Antiquities Museum

Sat, 1 Mar, 11am - 2:30pm AEST

RD Milns Antiquities Museum

Saint Lucia QLD, Australia

UQ Art Museum

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Join us at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum for a free guided tour of the Wondrous Machines exhibition!

Wondrous Machines brings to life Hero of Alexandria’s miraculous auto-propelling Dionysiac shrine, first described 2000 years ago.

By exploring 3D printed components from the shrine, we invite you to wonder about both modern and ancient automation. Hero’s complex ancient mechanical components were created from simple cords, wheels, axles, counterweights, taps and pins. These components, skilfully combined, created complex machines designed to invoke emotional audience responses.

Remarkably, as the exhibition reveals, these components have also inspired modern digital theories and technologies, including UQ’s biped TGR (Tiny Giant Robot).

Hosted by the RD Milns Antiquities Museum as part of BLOCK PARTY 2025!

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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UQ Art Museum is a site for progressive and contemporary creative inquiry. Our work speaks to the distinct context of the Art Museum’s place within the University. We aim to connect each visitor with new ideas in creative practice, and with learning in its many forms.

We collect and exhibit progressive works of art, which stimulate dialogue and debate. We’re committed to opening up dialogue with the faculties, research institutes and centres of the University, and to place education at the core of our activities.

Through our programs we hope to inspire, learn with and connect to our communities both inside and outside the University. We invite you to join one of our events on site to experience a new way to connect with art and ideas.

The University of Queensland (UQ) acknowledges the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which UQ operates. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country. We recognise their valuable contributions to Australian and global society.

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Sat, 1 Mar, 11am - 2:30pm AEST

RD Milns Antiquities Museum

Saint Lucia QLD, Australia

Hosted by UQ Art Museum