The Australian History Museum is a fantastic resource utilized by university students, researchers and the general public, while supporting a wide range of projects and disciplines. It is unique as a national collection of social history items, focusing on areas including immigration, Indigenous Australia, women and Australia at war.
Professor Chris Dixon: Head of Department. Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. American history, African American history, the Pacific War, and the Vietnam War
Macquarie University's Australian History Museum is a brilliant resource for students and teachers of Australian history, public history and NSW's senior high school extension history. It is accessible, friendly and fun. I donated an object to the museum that a Japanese Officer in the Cowra POW Camp gave to my grandfather. See if you can find it.
Professor Paul Ashton: Adjunct Professor. Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University.
The AHM is a wonderful and unique resource for students and convenors at Macquarie. With strengths in Australia's Indigenous, women's, wartime and immigration history it is a brilliant collection and a valuable learning and teaching tool. Our students are very lucky to experience the diverse collection hands-on.
Dr. Alison Holland: Senior Lecturer. Departmental HDR Director, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. Australian History with a particular interest in Aboriginal History; Comparative Indigenous Histories; Histories of Humanitarianism and Human Rights (from Australian perspective), Protest Movements and Feminist History.
The Australian History Museum is a fantastic resource for researchers and students. It contains a wide range of important and valuable primary sources that reveal much about Australia's past. For many years it has been integral to the teaching of Australian history at Macquarie University. Indeed it offers a key point of difference between the teaching conducted here compared with other institutions.
Dr. Matthew Bailey: Lecturer, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. Histories of consumerism, Australian urban history and oral history.
Macquarie University is the only university in Sydney with it's own museum of Australian social history. Connecting with the past through everyday objects is how I first became obsessed with history. Engaging with objects from the past allows us to uncover the strangeness and the familiarity of our own history. The Australian History Museum is full of the everyday traces of our history, carefully preserved for our students to investigate and interpret.
Dr. Michelle Arrow: Associate Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. History of popular culture in Australia, Australian theatre history and histories of cultural production.
The museum of Australian history at Macquarie University is wonderfully situated to give students a clear understanding of historical practice both within and outside the academy. Its existence underlines the multiple possibilities for students to go beyond traditional career paths and develop their interests in history making.
Dr. Paula Hamilton: Adjunct Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University.
The museum is a wonderful resource for students studying history or the social sciences at Macquarie. It holds original documents relating to the Museum's themes, allowing students and visitors to gain insight into people's lives in relation to these themes. I have been fortunate enough to be able to donate some of this kind of material to the Museum's collection, and appreciate it as a safe repository for precious historical documents as well.
Dr Sandey Fitzgerald: Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University.
