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Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9351 2812

Address: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney 2006 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: sydney.edu.au/museum

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25.01.2022 "We’re a bite-sized but beautiful gem of a museum" - Deputy Director Paul Donelly recently took Time Out Sydney on a tour of our museum.

25.01.2022 Happy birthday today to one of our institutional founders Sir Charles Nicholson (1808-1903), doctor, scholar, statesman, prolific collector and visionary.

22.01.2022 Thrilled to be in such esteemed creative company on the University of Sydney's main campus!

21.01.2022 With a fresh new design, Issue 26 of our magazine 'Muse' is available now from our museum shop! It's packed full of the insightful stories behind our exhibitions and the move to the new building. https://bit.ly/37RFafl

21.01.2022 When the museum opens, most of the collection items going on display have not been seen by the public for over 20 years, if ever. Discover 7 of the items we can't wait to get out of long-term storage:

20.01.2022 Contemporary art meet the Classical world in Daniel Boyd's immersive installation. In our first online article from our new issue of Muse Magazine, curator Ann Stephen discusses our inaugural Contemporary Art Project. https://bit.ly/36XX6FK

19.01.2022 Behind the scenes our team of expert conservators check over each piece before installation in the exhibition galleries. One week to go, book your visit now! https://bit.ly/35iT3mq

17.01.2022 Who came before Shakespeare? Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio is the original theatre book in the English language and helped informed the Bard's first collection. A first edition of this work has been donated to the University of Sydney, along with other valuable gifts.

16.01.2022 Be mesmerised by the meditative works of influential artist Lindy Lee in her survey exhibition 'Moon in a Dew Drop', at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Using a spectacular array of processes, which include flinging molten bronze, burning paper and allowing rain to transform surfaces, the artist draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to develop works that engage with the history of art, cultural authenticity, personal identity and the cosmos. https://bit.ly/2VQtBjg

15.01.2022 What does a 1796 French bank note have to do with European colonial influence in Egypt? In our latest episode of Object Matters, curator Candace Richards explores one of the more ephemeral items in our collections and reflects on current exhibition 'Pharaonic Obsessions: Ancient Egypt, an Australian Story'. https://bit.ly/2Jt2Bn3

13.01.2022 Upcoming online lecture: Vanessa Finney unravels the complex networks of 19th colonial science and the formation of Australia's first museum. Thursday 22 October, 6pm, free to attend - registration essential: https://ccwm.info/events

12.01.2022 Tune into 2SER's arts program CARVE at 11am today to catch Dr Craig Barker chatting about the Chau Chak Wing Museum

11.01.2022 'Museums might be associated with our forebears and the archaic, but this piece made it feel as if we in the present were part of history too' - University of Sydney students Nicolette Petra and Irene Higgins reviewed us for Pulp Media.

11.01.2022 Our exhibitions program is now up online! 18 new exhibitions drawing on all of our collections. Explore the program: https://bit.ly/3ls0DB9

10.01.2022 Have you visited our café yet? Sounds Sydney is part of The Little Marionette group and features excellent coffee, a delicious menu and an impressive wine list! Menu and bookings now available online: https://bit.ly/33KRxIy

10.01.2022 We received such glowing feedback on our first online lecture 'From Pompeii to Tharros' with Dr Steven Ellis! If you missed it or would like to re-watch, the recording is up online now: http://ccwm.info/talks

08.01.2022 Bula'bula Arts are running a crowdfunding campaign to set up a screen printing studio for their artists! The opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum will feature a major exhibition of historic artwork produced in Ramingining, Arnhem Land, in the early 1980s, including paintings by revered artists David Maangi, Paddy Dhäthau, Jimmy Wuuu and Philip Gudhaykudhay. Check out their campaign and the great rewards on offer below!

08.01.2022 This weekend is going to be super hot and the museum is fully booked! For your safety, please avoid arriving early to your booked session as early entry will not be possible. Image: Elioth Gruner, 'Beach scene', 1918, oil on board, donated by University of Sydney Union, 2019, UA2019.48

07.01.2022 This photo of 'Spring', a Victorian sculpture within Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, was taken by Kerry and Co, 1890-1915. Spring is still in the Botanic Gardens, with her seasonal sisters Summer, Autumn and Winter. From our Macleay Collection of historic photography: HP83.60.109

07.01.2022 Daniel Boyd’s exhibition ‘Pediment/Impediment’ is the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s inaugural contemporary art project in the Penelope Gallery. This immersive installation incorporates objects from the Nicholson Collection of antiquities to examine the Enlightenment origins of the museum.

06.01.2022 Book your visit before we open next week! Entry is free and we're open 7 days, from Wednesday 18 November. https://bit.ly/32mdk91

06.01.2022 Our podcast Object Matters has been nominated for a Museums & Galleries of NSW Imagine Award! Hosted by Dr Craig Barker, our monthly podcast invites guests to explores our diverse collections, one object at a time. Check out the other nominees here: http://ccwm.info/imagine

05.01.2022 "Seventy per cent of what we have on display has not been seen in the past 20 years, if at all, and the reason for that is we've not had the space. The collection spans 500,000 years 500,000 years of what I regard as human creativity" David Ellis, Director

05.01.2022 The generosity of alumnus Kenneth Reed AM brings fourteen ‘Old Master’ paintings to the University Art Collection.

05.01.2022 Happy long weekend! We hope your plans include sunshine, fresh air and good company- we'll see you next week Artwork: Emanuel Phillips Fox, 'Fairy Bower, Manly', 191314. Oil on canvas, UA2018.57.

03.01.2022 The Chau Chak Wing Museum is the first museum built on Gadigal land with Gadigal community input. Matt Poll, Assistant Curator, Indigenous Heritage, describes how local Aboriginal groups were consulted throughout the planning, design and construction to create a museum that encourages a sense of Gadigal belonging. Opening 18 November, book your visit: https://bit.ly/2UeOLWQ #NAIDOC2020

02.01.2022 Director David Ellis recently gave ArtsHub a tour of our new museum, read all about it in this article:

02.01.2022 It's JW Power's birthday! Senior Curator Ann Stephens tells us about her favourite Power artwork, painted for an anti-fascism exhibition planned to coincide with the 1936 Berlin olympic games.

01.01.2022 Freshly engraved! Our forecourt now features two jumping wallabies, a re-creation of an Aboriginal rock engraving at Westleigh pre-dating colonial Sydney. The design was developed in consultation with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council and acknowledges the long Gadigal use of the land the museum now stands on as a hunting ground for wallaby and kangaroo

01.01.2022 As we head into October, #ConnectingCollections is exploring the theme of monsters across ancient cultures. When Odysseus was on his epic journey home from the Trojan War he faced many monsters along the way, including the sea-monster Scylla who guarded the narrow Messina strait on the coast of Italy, threatening to consume any sailor who passed too close to her cliffs. She was described in ancient Greek myths as a terrifying multi-headed beast with the voice of a hungry dog.... On this Etruscan funerary urn Scylla is depicted with outstretched wings and a lower body of tentacle-like tails. She holds up a ships oar behind her head ready to attack. Object details: Cinerary urn from Chiusi, Etruria, 2nd Century BC. Donated by Sir Charles Nicholson 1860, NMR.1021.1