Minchin, ElizabethRichards, Candace2025-06-122025-06-1297810327352389781040334003ORCID:/0000-0001-9943-3612/work/185335828http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105000004061&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733760616The scholarship presented in this volume falls into four distinctive sections with some thematic overlap within chapters: provenance and the history of collections; contemporary pedagogical initiatives; participatory programming; ethical management of collections with a specific focus on restitution and on mummified human remains. This introductory chapter establishes the context for the volume as a whole. It acknowledges the circumstances that shaped Mediterranean archaeology collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand; it recognizes the crucial contributions of a small number of scholars; it foreshadows areas of particular interest or concern to museum scholars and collection managers today; and it offers an outline of the chapters that follow.29en2025-04-0410.4324/9781003464624-1105000004061