Collections

Explore more than 65,000 years of human history

The Macquarie University History Museum is home to two principal collections: the Australian History Collection and the Ancient Cultures Collection, which trace the ongoing journey of humankind.

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

Our collection includes 18,000 objects from antiquity through to the modern day, including material from:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations, including significant archives related to the struggle for Indigenous land rights
• Ancient Egyptian culture, 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
• Colonial New South Wales White Hart Inn at Windsor, New South Wales — illustrating Sydney's colonial expansion in the 19th Century, before the advent of the railway
• Wartime Australia, including WWI and WWII archives and material culture
• Australian immigration up to the 1970s
• Papua New Guinea