{"id":52,"date":"2009-05-14T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-06-01T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:15:25","slug":"melbourne-exhibition-books-and-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/melbourne-exhibition-books-and-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Exhibition: Books and Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slv.vic.gov.au\/programs\/exhibitions\/dome\/mirror\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mow_hero.jpg\" alt=\"Books and Ideas\" title=\"Books and Ideas\" width=\"140\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in or near Melbourne, Australia at the moment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slv.vic.gov.au\/\">State Library of Victoria<\/a> has a great exhibition called <em>Mirror of the World: Books &#038; Ideas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction to the exhibition states that <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>books are mirrors of many worlds: worlds here and distant, past and present, real and imagined. Through text and image, they act as keepers of ideas, of knowledge and of stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With many of the rare and historically significant books in the Library&#8217;s collections on display, it includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/museum\/Games\/cuneiform.html\">cuneiform<\/a> tablet from approximately 2500 BC. Cuneiform is one of the precursors to the modern twenty six letter alphabet we use today.<\/p>\n<p>On display are books from approximately the Middle Ages through to the present day, and explore different themes including the early history of books and printing, which includes a leaf from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/treasures\/gutenberg\/homepage.html\">Gutenberg Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recent books include a collection of Penguin paperbacks and a display on Peter Carey, one of Victoria&#8217;s most prominent authors (he wrote the <em>True History of the Kelly Gang<\/em> which won the 2001 Man Booker Prize).<\/p>\n<p>Definitely worth checking out, especially if you&#8217;re a book geek like me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in or near Melbourne, Australia at the moment, the State Library of Victoria has a great exhibition called Mirror of the World: Books &#038; Ideas. The introduction to the exhibition states that books are mirrors of many worlds: worlds here and distant, past and present, real and imagined. Through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[36,39,38,37],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-events","tag-books","tag-cuneiform","tag-exhibition","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}