Museum Masterpieces and Historical Objects

List of Masterpieces and Historical Artifacts

Below are some of the Masterpieces and Historical Artifacts covered by “Joy of Museums (Dates are approximate for the purposes of indexing by date):

Giant Wombat Skull – 80,000 BC
Clovis Projectile Point – 11,000 BC
Cycladic Pyxis – 3,200 BC
Narmer Palette – 3,100 BC
The Stargazer – 3,000 BC
Cycladic Figurine – 2,700 BC
Cycladic Footed Cup – 2,700 BC
Cycladic Figures – 2,500 BC
Dancing Girl (Mohenjo-Daro) – 2,500 BC
Egyptian Stela Fragment – 2,350 BC
Li – Chinese Tripod Jar – 2,300 BC
Priam’s Treasure Necklace – 2,200 BC
Treasure from Troy – 2,200 BC
Priam’s Treasure – 2,200 BC
Gudea, Prince of Lagash – 2,120 BC
Statue of Gudea – 2,142 BC
Mummified Thylacine Head – 2,000 BC
Law Code of Hammurabi – 1,750 BC
Sumerian Cone or Clay Nail – 1,720 BC
Mask of Agamemnon – 1,500 B.C.
The Sphinx of Hatshepsut – 1,470 BC
The Goddess Sekhmet – 1,390-1352 BC
Relief Portrait of Akhenaten – 1,340 BC
Akhenaten and Nefertiti with their Children – 1,340 BC
Nefertiti Bust – 1,345 BC
Standing Figure of Nefertiti – 1,345 BC
Tutankhamun’s Mask – 1,323 BC
Houmuwu Ding – 1,300 BC
Merneptah Stele – 1,208 BC
Capitoline Wolf – 1,150 BC
Relief of a Winged Genius – 880 BC
Jar Handles with Judean “Royal Stamp” – 800 BC
Siloam Inscription – 700 BC
Shawabti of King Senkamanisken – 643 BC
The Lion Hunt – 640 BC
Greek “Illyrian type” Helmet – 600 BC
Statue of a Kouros – 580 BC
Ishtar Gate – 575 BC
Head of Bearded Man (Cypriot) – 550 BC
Peplos Kore – 530 BC
Head of a Cypriot Herakles (Hercules) – 500 BC
Tabnit Sarcophagus – 500 BC
Charioteer of Delphi – 470 BC
Kleroterion – 470 BC
Artemision Bronze – 460 BC
Lekythos with Woman – 450 BC
The Parthenon Marbles – 440 BC
Goddess with Diadem – 430 BC
Caryatids of Erechtheum – 420 BC
Macedonian Army Helmet – 400BC
Gravestone for Theophile – 400 BC
Apollo the Python-Slayer – 400 BC
Antikythera Youth – 330 BC
Fish Plate – 320 BC
Myrtle Wreath – 300 BC
The Alexander Sarcophagus – 300 BC
Figurine of a Dancer – 250 BC
Torso of Hermes – 200 BC
Statue of Asklepios – 200 BC
Boy with Thorn – 200 BC
Dying Gaul – 230 BC (Greek Original)
The Winged Victory of Samothrace – 200 BC
Laocoön and His Sons – 200 BC (Greek Original)
The Rosetta Stone – 196 BC
The Pergamon Altar – 150 BC
Jockey of Artemision – 150 BC
Cult Statue Head of Diana – 125 BC
Antikythera Mechanism – 100 BC
The Jade Burial Suit – 100 BC
Wine Transport Amphoras -100 BC
The Temple of Dendur – 10
Marble Portrait of Agrippina the Elder – 38
Gandhara Buddha – 100
Seated Buddha from Gandhara – 100
Buddha – 200
The Market Gate of Miletus – 150
The Emperor as Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius – 190
Marble head of Emperor Caracalla – 215
Herm of Herakles and Hermes – 250
Colossus of Constantine – 313
Greenstone Mask – 500
Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang – 500 (original) – 1000 (copy)
Treasure of Guarrazar – 587
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial – 600
Monymusk Reliquary – 750
Hilton of Cadboll Stone – 800
Mayan Altar – 830
The Family of Shiva – 850
Dancing Ganesha – 910
Apsara – 950
Bhairava – 950
Shiva as the Lord of Dance – 950
Nataraja – 1100
Hanuman – 1150
Somaskanda – 1200
The Heads of the Kings of Judah -1230
Moa Skeleton – 1300
Canoe Bailer – Tiheru – 1300
Vajradhara and Prajna – 1400
South Island Adzebill – 1400
“Crucifixion Diptych” by Rogier van der Weyden – 1460
“Ginevra de’ Benci” by Leonardo da Vinci – 1474–8
“The Story of Lucretia” by Sandro Botticelli – 1496–1504
Walking Buddha -1500
The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries – 1500
Haast’s Eagle – 1500
“The Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci – 1503
“Small Cowper Madonna” by Raphael – 1505
“Madonna of the Meadow” by Raphael. – 1505
“The Alba Madonna” by Raphael – 1510
“School of Athens” by Raffaello – 1511
“Sistine Chapel Ceiling” by Michelangelo – 1512
“Bacchus and Ariadne” by Titian – 1522–23
“The Rape of Europa” by Titian – 1560-62
“The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Brueghel – 1563
The Great Bed of Ware -1590
Mariner’s Astrolabe from the Vergulde Draeck – 1600
“The Taking of Christ” by Caravaggio – 1602
“The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals – 1624
Batavia Timbers – 1628
“The Raising of Lazarus” by Rembrandt – 1630-1632
“A Dance to the Music of Time” by Nicolas Poussin – 1634-1635
“Magdalene with the Smoking Flame” by Georges de La Tour – 1640
Ptolemy’s View of the Solar System – 1660
“The Concert” by Johannes Vermeer (stolen in 1990) -1664
Ship Model -The Dutch Galliot ‘t Weseltje – 1695
The de Vlamingh Plate – 1697
Cannon from the Endeavour – 1750
“A Young Girl Reading” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard – 1770
Shield of Maharana Sangram Singh II – 1730
“The Grand Canal in Venice …..” by Canaletto – 1738
Inn Sign – The “General Wolfe” Tavern – 1768
George Washington’s War Tent – 1776
Aboriginal Shields -1800
Maori Pātaka or Storehouse Panels – 1800
Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (National Gallery of Ireland) – 1805
Maori Pare – Lintel from a Maori Meeting House – 1810
“Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate” by Francisco Goya – 1810 – 11
The Three Graces by Antonio Canova (Hermitage Museum) – 1813 – 1816
“The Three Graces” at the V&A by Antonio Canova – 1813 – 1816
“The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by J. M. W. Turner – 1835
“The Fighting Temeraire” by J.M.W. Turner – 1839
“Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino” by J.M.W. Turner – 1839
American Whaleboat ‘Beetle’ – 1840
Convict Leave Pass – 1843
Main Cell Block at Fremantle Prison – 1850
Shadow Puppet – Rama – 1850
Houses on The Terrace at Fremantle Prison – 1853
Fremantle Prison Gatehouse – 1854
“Farmyard in Normandy” by by Claude Monet – 1863
“A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur” by Claude Monet – 1865
Aboriginal King Plate of Billie Hippie – 1870
Adam by Auguste Rodin – 1870
“The Basin at Argenteuil” by Claude Monet -1872
“Paris Street, Rainy Day” by Gustave Caillebotte – 1877
“Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir – 1876
“The Thinker” by Rodin – 1880 – 81
“Dance at Bougival” by Auguste Renoir – 1883
“Cymon and Iphigenia” – Frederic Leighton – 1884
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” by Georges Seurat – 1884 – 86
“The Large Bathers” or “Les Grandes Baigneuses” by Auguste Renoir – 1884–1887
“Breaking the News” by John Longstaff – 1887
The Gallows Room at Fremantle Prison – 1888
“Three Dancers at a Dance Class” by Edgar Degas – 1888
“Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh – 1888
“The Starry Night Over the Rhône” by Vincent van Gogh – 1888
“Down on his Luck” by Frederick McCubbin – 1889
“Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin” by Vincent van Gogh – 1889
“The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh – 1889
“Irises” by Vincent van Gogh“Irises” by Vincent van Gogh – 1889
Australian Aboriginal Shields – 1890
Aboriginal Message Stick – 1890
Coolamons and Aboriginal Carrying Vessels – 1890
“White House at Night” by Vincent van Gogh -1890
“The Card Players” by Paul Cézanne – 1890 – 1892
“Shearing the Rams” by Tom Roberts – 1890
“At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – 1890
“Bailed Up” by Tom Roberts – 1895
Naturalization Certificate, William Bantry, 1896 – 1896
Coptic Pendant Crosses – 1900
” Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter Rachel” by John Singer Sargent – 1903
“Under the Jacaranda” by R Godfrey Rivers – 1903
The Wright Flyer – 1903
“The Pioneer” by Frederick McCubbin – 1904
“Bathing Hour” (L’Heure de Bain) by E Phillips Fox – 1909
‘White Australia’ Song Sheet Music, 1910 – 1910
Antarctic Sledges – 1910
Gallipoli Lifeboat from the SS Devanha -1915
Carpentaria – Light Ship – 1917
Thylacine Skeleton (Tasmanian Tiger) – 1920
“Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond” by Claude Monet – 1920
Forceful – Tugboat – 1925
Avro Avian, G-EBOV – 1926
The Spirit of St. Louis – 1927
External Architecture & Design of the Shrine -1934
“Figure with Snow Falling” by Takahashi Hiroaki – 1940
“Figure with Parasol, Protect against Snow” by Takahashi Hiroaki – 1940
Changi Flag – 1941
“Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper – 1942
General Douglas MacArthur’s GHQ Office in Australia – 1942
USS Cod – 1943
HMAS Diamantina – 1944
Spitfire LA198 – 1944
Platypus Nest – 1950
HMAS Vampire (D11) – 1959
HMAS Ovens – 1967
HMAS Onslow – 1969
Concorde SST – 1969
Apollo 11 Command Module – 1969
Ikara Missile – 1970
Skylab 3 Apollo Command Module – 1973
Space Shuttle Enterprise – 1976
Australia II – 1982
Ella’s Pink Lady – 1984
Parry Endeavour – 1985
Megamouth Shark – 1988
Freedom – Atlantic Rowing Race Boat – 2000
Giant Squid – 2004
One Tonne Gold Coin – 2011