Collections

Traverse five continents and 5000+ years of history

The Macquarie University History Museum's collection merges our Australian history and ancient cultures collections to trace the ongoing journey of humankind.

Our extensive collection includes 18,000 objects from the ancient world through to the modern day. Nine percent of these are displayed in our state-of-the-art museum space right at the heart of the University's new Arts Precinct, including material from:

• Ancient Egypt, from the Pre-Dynastic to the Graeco-Roman period
• Ancient Greek culture, from Minoan and Mycenaean material to the Hellenistic period
• Ancient Roman culture, from the Villanovan and Etruscan periods to the fifth century CE
• Ancient Cyprus, from Early Cypriot to the Late Iron Ages
• Ancient Near East including Israel and Mesopotamia, from the early third millennium BCE to the Late Iron Age
• Indus Valley – a significant collection of material from a Bronze Age civilisation located on the present day border of Pakistan and Afghanistan
• White Hart Inn at Windsor, New South Wales — illustrating Sydney's expansion in the 19th Century, before the advent of the railway
• Wartime Australia
• Australian immigration up to the 1970s
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations
• Papua New Guinea

The Macquarie University History Museum also actively supports a range of other museums, collections and art galleries within the University, as well as a sculpture park and herbarium.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that these collections may contain images of people who have died.