Interior of the Chau Chak Wing Museum April 2021

The Chau Chak Wing Museum is a

university museum A university museum is a repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the institution of higher learning. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, or ...

at the

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. It was formed as an amalgamation of the

Nicholson Museum The Nicholson Museum was an archaeological museum at the University of Sydney home to the Nicholson Collection, the largest collection of antiquities in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Founded in 1860, the collection spans the ancient ...

, the

Macleay Museum The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney, was a natural history museum located on the University's campus, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The museum was dissolved in 2016 and upon opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum in 2020, its ...

, and the University Art Gallery in 2020.

History

The collections began with the Nicholson Collection of antiquities in 1860 and continued to grow to include the Macleay Collections of natural history, ethnography, science and historic photography, and the University Art Collection. The three collections were brought together under Sydney University Museums in 2003. The museum is named after

Chau Chak Wing Chau Chak-wing ( zh, s=周泽荣, t=周澤榮, p=Zhōu Zéróng, sl=Jau1 Jaak6-wing4; born 1949), is a Chinese-Australian property developer known for his Kingold Group business based in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China (PRC). Journalists and ...

, a

Chinese-Australian Chinese Australians () are Australians of Chinese origin. Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Chinese diaspora, and are the largest Asian Australian community. Per capita, Australia has more people of Chines ...

businessman who donated $15 million for the building's construction in 2015. Other major benefactors were

Penelope Seidler Penelope Alice Marjorie Seidler AM (née Evatt; born 1938) is an Australian architect and accountant. She is director of the Sydney-based architectural firm Harry Seidler and Associates. She was the wife and professional partner of architect ...

, the

Ian Potter Foundation Sir William Ian Potter (25 August 190224 October 1994), known as Ian Potter, was an Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist. Potter was knighted in 1962. The Ian Potter Foundation, which he established in 1964, has made grants to ...

and Nelson Meers Foundation. The museum was officially opened on the 18 November 2020. In September 2023 it hosted the

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Committee for University Museums and Collections Conference, "Truth-telling through university museums and collections". The museum's collection of

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from Egypt was featured in the second season of ''

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''.

Directors

* David Ellis (2020-2023) * Michael Dagostino (2023–present)

Building

The building is located on Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney, opposite the Main Quadrangle and

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. The building was designed by Johnson Pilton Walker. The building is five-storey, with four levels of exhibition space with six main galleries: Ian Potter Gallery, Macleay Gallery, Nicholson Gallery, Penelope Gallery, Power Gallery, and the China Gallery.

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design features were incorporated design and landscaping of the building. The forecourt incorporates a replica of a pre-invasion Aboriginal

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of two

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originally located in Westleigh and the foyer prominently displays a

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in the

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. Construction of the new museum was completed in 2020.

Collections

CCWM has three main collections, the Macleay Collection, the Nicholson Collection, and the University of Art Collection.

Macleay Collection

The Macleay Collection is the oldest natural history collection in Australia, originating in the cabinets of

Alexander Macleay Alexander Macleay (also spelt McLeay) MLC FLS FRS (24 June 1767 – 18 July 1848) was a Scottish-Australian leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Life Mac ...

, and expanding through the collecting networks of the Macleay family from

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...

Sir Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles ...

. It contains historically rich collections of Aboriginal,

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and

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s' cultural material, including objects collected on the early scientific expedition, the Chevert, and those collected in the early years of anthropology at the University of Sydney. The work of University of Sydney scientists is reflected in the collection of scientific instruments and apparatus used in research and teaching, and is part of the story of scientific practice in Australia. The Historic Photograph Collection records life in Australia and the Pacific region, from the late 1840s to the 1960s, as captured by both commercial and amateur photographers. It includes a wide range of photographic formats, reflecting the changing technology of photography. In addition, the Macleay Collections holds material reflecting the museum's history, including a significant library, furniture, documents and ephemera relating to the major collectors.

Nicholson Collection

The Nicholson Collection contains nearly 30,000 artefacts representing ancient cultures from the

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, the

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and

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. Spanning from the

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to the late

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period, these artefacts hold intimate stories of people's everyday lives, ancient environments, and cultural activity for over more than 10,000 years. The collection was founded in 1860 by

Sir Charles Nicholson Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (born Isaac Ascough; 23 November 1808 – 8 November 1903) was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the Universit ...

with a donation of

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and

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antiquities acquired to establish a museum, "calculated materially to promote the object

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for which the niversity of Sydneywas founded." By 1870, the University of Sydney's Museum of Antiquities included over 3,000 artefacts and had been nicknamed the Nicholsonian Museum. Over the past 160 years, the Nicholson Collection has expanded through ambitious acquisition programs, generous donation and private bequests. International excavations in

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and the Middle East, partly sponsored by the University of Sydney have also contributed significant objects to the collection.

University Art Collection

The collection contains more than 8000 works including paintings, sculptures, photography and ceramics. Among the first donors was one of its founders, Sir Charles Nicholson, who gave some 30 European paintings, tapestries and sculptures in 1865. The strength of the collection lies in Australian painting – including

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– as well as significant holdings in European and Asian art.

Human remains

CCWM holds 950 identified human remains across its collections. This includes the remains of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, as well as remains from what is now the

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, the

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, and

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Current exhibitions

* Ambassadors * Crossroads - Ancient Cyprus * Dance Protest, Project

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: Myth and Legacy * Impressions of

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* Instrumental 4. Collections from Science:

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- the

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' quarter * Mediterranean Identities: Across the wine-dark sea * Micro:Macro - models of insight and inspiration * The

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Room * Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return * Natural Selections: animal worlds * Pharaonic Obsessions: Ancient Egypt, an Australian Story * Roman Spectres * Student Life:

Max Dupain Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE (22 April 191127 July 1992) was an Australian modernist photographer. Early life Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography. He later joined the Photographic Society ...

at the University of Sydney * The trace is not a presence... * Villages and Empires: Ancient Cultures of the Middle East

Past exhibitions

2025

* Contemporary Art Project #6. Consuelo Cavaniglia: seeing through you * Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union

2024

* Barbara McGrady: Australia Has a Black History * Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature * Contemporary Art Project #5. Hayley Millar Baker:

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* Instrumental 3. Collections from Science:

Surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the land, terrestrial Plane (mathematics), two-dimensional or Three-dimensional space#In Euclidean geometry, three-dimensional positions of Point (geom ...

* Ömie barkcloth: Pathways of nioge * Photography and the performative * The Staged Photograph * Ten Thousand Suns * Tidal Kin - Stories from the Pacific

2023

* Australian Seashores * Coastline * Contemporary Art Project #3. D Harding with Kate Harding: Through a lens of visitation * Contemporary Art Project #4. Mikala Dwyer: Penelope and the Seahorse * Instrumental 2. Collections from science: Optical instruments * Object/Art/Specimen * Sentient Paper * Sherman Gift

2022

* Animal Gods: Classics and Classification * Contemporary Art Project #2. Sarah Goffman: Applied Arts * Instrumental 1. Collections from science: Calculating and Computing * Kamay (

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) spears: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow * Light & Darkness * Pacific views

2021

* The Business of Photography * Contemporary Art Project #1. Daniel Boyd: Pediment/Impediment * Gululu dhuwala djalkiri: welcome to the

Yolŋu The Yolngu or Yolŋu ( or ) are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. ''Yolngu'' means "person" in the Yolŋu languages. The terms Murngin, Wulamba, Yalnumat ...

foundations

Awards

In 2021, CCWM won the Museums and Galleries National Award (MAGNA) and two Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA). CCWM won the 2023 UMAC Award for its object-based learning program. It is the first time the UMAC Award has been won by an Australian university.

Teaching

CCWM's object-based learning program aims to provide access to the collections to university students. This has including increasing

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collaborations with parts of the university that did not traditionally engage with the collections, such as the

University of Sydney Business School The University of Sydney Business School is the business school and a constituent body of the University of Sydney. It was established in January 2011 and formed from the School of Business within the previous Faculty of Economics and Business. T ...

and Medical Sciences.

Research

Egyptian-Australian community initiative

In 2022 the curators of the Nicholson Collection and our research partners from the Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project, Heba Abd Al-Gawad and Alice Stevenson, invited members of the

Egyptian-Australian Egyptian Australians () are Australian citizens and Australian permanent residents of Egyptian descent. According to the Australian 2011 Census, 36,532 Australian citizens and permanent residents declared that they were born in Egypt, while based ...

community to a weekend long focus group to discuss the ways in which Egyptian heritage is interpreted and ways forward for participation.

Egyptian stelae

This interdisciplinary project examines 20 ancient Egyptian

stelae A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

, made from limestone, pottery and wood that were produced and decorated between the

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(c.1500–1069 BCE) and the

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(c.332–30 BCE).

Excavating MacGregor

The first

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British New Guinea The Territory of Papua comprised the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea from 1883 to 1975. In 1883, the Government of Colony of Queensland, Queensland annexed this territory for the British Empire. The United Kingdom Government ...

William MacGregor Sir William MacGregor, (20 October 1846 – 3 July 1919)R. B. Joyce,', ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp 158–160. Retrieved 29 September 2009 was a Scottish colonial administrator who was ...

, made a significant collection of objects between 1888 and 1898, specifically for its future citizens. The aim of the project is to re-assemble and re-connect this material by 'excavating' its private and official components, focusing on the makers and traders to disentangle the social relationships embedded in the objects.

Human remains research project

This research project seeks to understand better different public attitudes and responses to the display of human remains with a particular focus on museum visitors and

communities in Australia's diaspora, in

, and elsewhere.

The Jericho Research Project

An ongoing research project to investigate the museum's holdings from

Jericho Jericho ( ; , ) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. Jericho is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It had a population of 20,907 in 2017. F ...

in the

West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

. The collection was obtained as the Nicholson Museum was one of the financial sponsors for

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

's archaeological research in the region.

Paphos Theatre Archeological Project

Ongoing excavations at the ancient

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

and surrounding environs of

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that was the capital of

under the

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and then

administrations. The Paphos excavations are supported by the

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Reconstructing museum specimen data

This project which examines trade processes to reconstruct and understand the mechanisms of natural history trade.

Revision of the dottyback fish subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae

The

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is a

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of small coral-reef fishes found throughout the

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. The study aims to determine

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

within the subfamily and investigate their

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Woodhouse Archive Flickr Project

In July 2017, the museum launched a

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project to help identify and catalogue the Woodhouse Photographic Archive of glass-plate negatives taken in Greece during the 1890s and early 1900s.

Publications

The museum has published a biannual magazine, Muse, since 2012. The magazine has won design awards from Museums Australia. Other publications include: * Chen, S., & Kim, M.-J. (Eds.). (2024). ''Chinese toggles: Culture in miniature''. Power Publications. ISBN 978-0-909952-24-2 * Conway, R. (Ed.). (2021). ''Djalkiri: Yolngu art, collaborations and collections''. Sydney University Press. ISBN 9781743327272 * Ellis, David (2020). ''Director's choice. Chau Chak Wing Museum''. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd. * Fraser, J., Lord, C., & Magnussen, J. (Eds.). (2022). ''Speak my name: Investigating Egyptian mummies''. Sydney University Press. ISBN 9781743328460 * Stephens, Ann (Ed.). (2021). ''Light & Darkness: Late Modernism and the JW Power Collection''. Power Publications. ISBN 9780909952020

References

External links

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