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Five questions with Senior Curator Melanie Pitkin

7 April 2022 -
But, a few other career highlights includes my Postdoctoral position at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. ... 4. What's your favourite collection item in the Chau Chak Wing Museum and why?
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2022/04/07/five-questions-with-senior-curator-melanie-pitkin.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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Material matters science in the museum

12 August 2021 -
Material matters: science in the museum. 12 August 2021. Thérèse Harrison, Elizabeth Carter and Jude Philp describe an exciting collaboration. ... The Sea Captain required cleaning and further investigation of its origin prior to its display in the
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2021/08/12/material-matters-science-in-the-museum.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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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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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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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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Research to provide universal museum access for the blind

7 September 2023 -
Understanding museum exhibits through touch. Museum objects are safeguarded behind barriers making them inaccessible to blind and low vision children and adults. ... Museums increasingly scan their collections to make them accessible for a wider online
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/09/06/research-to-provide-universal-museum-access-for-the-blind.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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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