Top 100 at least in terms of giving us a quick history of civilisation, and at least as judged by the British Museum and brought to us courtesy of the Australian National Museum in Canberra.
This is Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor to be called an emperor. Other top 100 artifacts include the sarcophagus of the ancient Egyptian Shepenmehyt, the Lewis Island Chessmen, an Arnhem Land basket, an Inca gold llama, a Samurai sword, and a Sharia Law compliant credit card. Plus some very colourful New Guinea tribal shields with modern beer label designs.
I quite like the Australian National Museum, especially that giant 'Garden of Australian Dreams' multi-themed map thing that you can walk around, with linguistic boundaries and lots more marked on it.
I don't go much on the big loopy roller coaster 'Boolean string' thing at the entrance. ‘We have subtracted (by Boolean operation) a volume of tangled space in the form of a ribbon or knot from a solid sphere-like object. The loop is a small piece of this string, which entangles and defines the entire building – a metaphor for the strands that tie us together as a nation.' As explained by the museum's website.
The museum's in an attractive location on a peninsula that protrudes into Lake Burley Griffin.
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