ISBN |
9781911282808 |
Title |
100 treasures, 100 emotions : the Macquarie University History Museum / edited by Martin Bommas ; photograpy: Effy Alexakis ; Professor Martina Möllering [foreword] ; Martin Bommas [introduction] |
Other title |
One hundred treasures, one hundred emotions |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Lewes, UK : Giles, 2022. |
©2022. |
Description |
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm. |
Note |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this book contains images of people who are deceased. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
100 Treasures / 100 Emotions' celebrates the inauguration of the Macquarie University History Museum Sydney, NSW, Australia. This entirely new volume focuses on 100 works from a vast collection of 15,000 objects, to highlight the new museum's focus on social history and the human condition beyond the borders of space and time. This story is told through a mixture of short essays and colour plates of 100 selected objects drawn from across five continents and over the course of 5,000 years. These objects - ranging from fragments of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to a WWI era Turkish Star medal - have been chosen by Museum staff and Macquarie scholars to achieve a representative and rigorously researched survey of human experience and creativity over five millennia. Professor Martin Bommas, edits short essays on each of the 100 selected objects by a broad range of academic authors, complemented by entirely new photography of the objects commissioned from award-winning photographer Effy Alexakis. |
Subjects |
Macquarie University History Museum |
Macquarie University |
Historical museums -- New South Wales |
Historical museums -- Australia |
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Bommas, Martin (editor) (writer of introduction.) |
Möllering, Martina (writer of foreword) |
Alexakis, Effy (photographer) |
Other Corporate Bodies |
Macquarie University History Museum |
Call number |
2022.244 |