| Description |
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this book contains images of people who are deceased |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Macquarie University History Museum -- Catalogs
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Historical museums -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Catalogs
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Historical museums -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Catalogs
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| Author |
Möllering, Martina, writer of foreword
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Bommas, Martin, editor, writer of introduction
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Alexakis, Effy, photographer
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Macquarie University History Museum, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9781911282808 |
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