100 Treasures / 100 Emotions: The Macquarie University History Museum by Bommas, Martin

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254mm x 209mm x 12mm

Pages: 224

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 museumGÇÖs 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 color plates of 100 selected objects drawn from across five continents and over the course of 5,000 years. These objects GÇô ranging from fragments of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to a WWI era Turkish Star medal GÇô 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.