David Ellis
John Thompson reviews 'Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney' edited by David Ellis
John Thompson
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
With the centrepiece of its glorious Edmund Blacket building and its noble quadrangle, the University of Sydney is Australia’s oldest and grandest institution of higher learning – an adornment both to its city and to the nation since its foundation in 1852. Less well known, even in Sydney, is that the university is home to a remarkable accumulation of cultural and scientific treasures – some seven hundred thousand artefacts and objects – held within its museums and collections: the Nicholson and Macleay Museums, the University Art Gallery, the rare books collection of the Fisher Library and university archives, and numerous faculty-based research collections.
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Published in
March 2011, no. 329