Can you believe it has been a year since the 50 Treasures: Celebrating 50 years of James Cook University exhibition opened in the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (on the 30th of October, 2020)?
The physical exhibition was the culmination of a project that unfolded throughout 2020, showcasing some of the amazing objects and stories we have in the JCU Library Special Collections.
There were 50 treasures, but over 500 artefacts in the exhibition - many of which were digitised for the first time, allowing us to share these treasures with the world, even while the world was locked down thanks to COVID-19.
You can still see all of the treasures and read the stories behind them in our online 50 Treasures exhibition suite. And you can take a virtual tour of the physical exhibition, to see what everything looked like in the Perc Tucker gallery.
An interesting "This is Uni" article by Tianna Killoran, which came out last week for the UN World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (27th October), looks back on the exhibition and the enduring legacy in the archives that were created for the treasures.
We are exceptionally proud of the work the library staff did for this massive, multi-platform exhibition, which took place over the course of one of the most difficult years in recent history. Bronwyn McBurnie, the Manager of Special Collections and the curator of the exhibition, was recently awarded the Centenary Medal award by the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, and we think she absolutely deserves it.
If you were keeping up with the 50 Treasures exhibits as they were being released, why not go back and revisit some of your favourites? And if you missed the 50 Treasures posts and exhibition last year, you can still see the treasures and enjoy the (virtual) experience.
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| Pressed algae from the album "British Marine Algae", by Annie Slade. Photograph by Michael Marzik. |
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