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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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Melanie Pitkin - Chau Chak Wing Museum

www.sydney.edu.au/museum/about-us/our-people/melanie-pitkin.html
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Tertiary and adult programs - Chau Chak Wing Museum

integrated into your unit, please contact Academic Engagement Curators Eve Guerry and Visit Canvas for more information.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/education/tertiary-adult-programs.html
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New photography exhibition highlights 30 years of Indigenous history

22 January 2024 -
Barbara is one of Australia’s most important documentary photographers,” said Chau Chak Wing Museum Director Michael Dagostino. ... Australia Has a Black History sits along two other free photography exhibitions at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/11/29/new-photography-exhibition-highlights-30-years-of-indigenous-his.html
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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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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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Jane Thogersen - Chau Chak Wing Museum

www.sydney.edu.au/museum/about-us/our-people/jane-thogersen.html
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Ancient Egyptian treasures discovered in suburban Sydney home

12 January 2023 -
Her grandfather had studied medicine at Sydney, so the family decided to donate the collection to the University's Nicholson Museum. ... The collection has now been catalogued and will go on display when the University's new Chau Chak Wing Museum opens.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/07/ancient-egyptian-treasures-discovered-in-suburban-sydney-home.html
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Cultural Competence – Aboriginal Sydney

27 March 2017 -
The videos feature University of Sydney academics, such as Professor Jakelin Troy, who is Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, and Matt Poll, who is Assistant Curator of Indigenous ... Art curator Djon Mundine talks about how
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/03/13/cultural-competence--aboriginal-sydney-.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