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Glasses bring colour to the museum

1 June 2022 -
A museum fan who once spent a 12-hour layover in New York visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art, David supports making the glasses available in museums more widely. ... The program helps venues including schools, state parks, libraries and museums –
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/04/22/glasses-bring-colour-to-the-museum-.html
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$6m bequest for archaeology from former professor and curator

7 September 2022 -
Professor Cambitoglou’s legacy continues. Archaeology professor, curator of the Nicholson Museum for 37 years and founder of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Professor Cambitoglou has bequeathed $6 million to ... Professor Cambitoglou
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/08/06/-6m-bequest-for-archaeology-from-former-professor-and-curator-.html
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Museum secrets to be revealed

8 October 2020 -
Curator Dr Ann Stephen and Director David Ellis inspect the newly restored 'Sea Captain' painting. ... Dr Craig Barker is Head, Public Engagement at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2020/10/08/museum-secrets-to-be-revealed.html
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Shaping Ambassadors

2 March 2022 -
Dispersed throughout the museum, they operate as a disruption to the orthodoxy of past exhibition practices where Aboriginal culture in museums was authored by non-Indigenous people. ... Matt Poll is Assistant Curator, Indigenous Heritage and Repatriation
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2021/07/05/shaping-ambassadors.html
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Podcasts - Chau Chak Wing Museum

30 January 2024 -
Host Dr Craig Barker is joined by the Museum's Curator of Natural History Collections, Dr Anthony Gill. ... Museums Collection Officer Matthew Huan explores several Australian Jezebel butterflies from the Chau Chak Wing Museum's Macleay Collections.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/podcasts.html
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Zoom backgrounds from the Chau Chak Wing Museum collections

18 May 2020 -
Zoom backgrounds from the Chau Chak Wing Museum collections. 1 April 2020. ... With classes, meetings and even after-work drinks moving online, we are making the most of Zoom's 'virtual background' feature and releasing 10 Chau Chak Wing Museum
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2020/04/01/zoom-backgrounds-from-the-chau-chak-wing-museum-collections.html
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Chau Chak Wing Museum the staged photograph

20 December 2023 -
The Chau Chak Wing Museum presents The Staged Photograph, an exhibition exploring images from the mid-19. ... All photographs are drawn from the Macleay Collections of the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/24/chau-chak-wing-museum-the-staged-photograph-.html
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Major new exhibition explores the Coastline

18 January 2021 -
th. century copy, is unveiled in an opening exhibition at Sydney’s newest museum. ... There are many ways to engage with this exhibition,” said Dr Ann Stephen, senior curator at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/01/11/-major-new-exhibition-explores-the-coastline-.html
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Chau Chak Wing Museum wins three national museum awards

17 June 2021 -
Yirrkala researcher Wandjuk Marika working with curator Lydia Bushell at the Macleay Museum, 1976. ... Design awards . The Chau Chak Wing Museum also received a Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Award (MAPDA) for its new branding and
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2021/06/10/chau-chak-wing-museum-wins-three-national-museum-awards.html
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New museum takes shape

13 August 2019 -
The basement is equally exciting to the curators. It will eventually house more than half of our museum collections in the best possible environmental conditions. ... When complete, the museum will have 2000 square metres of public exhibition area,
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/08/06/new-museum-takes-shape.html