Bibliograph

100 treasures, 100 emotions, The Macquarie University History Museum, edited by Martin Bommas

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100 treasures, 100 emotions, The Macquarie University History Museum, edited by Martin Bommas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

100 treasures, 100 emotions

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

1252411814

Responsibility statement

edited by Martin Bommas

Sub title

The Macquarie University History Museum

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

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