2020
Articles
18 November 2020
Reframing the Enlightenment
Curator Ann Stephen discusses ‘Pediment/Impediment’, Daniel Boyd's immersive new installation in the Chau Chak Wing Museum's Penelope Gallery.
08 October 2020
Museum secrets to be revealed
When the Chau Chak Wing Museum opens in November, many of the extraordinary objects, specimens and works of art on display have never before been seen publicly. Dr Craig Barker describes 7 items coming out of long-term storage.
02 September 2020
Nip and tuck
As 19th century taxidermy ages, natural history specimens often require extreme makeovers. Dr Jude Philp describes how expert Sasha Stollman restored fish and mammal specimens in preparation for our opening exhibitions.
19 August 2020
Vale John Nixon
The artist John Nixon, who died earlier this week, was a seminal figure in Australian art over the last five decades. Several of his major works from the 1980s were acquired for the Power bequest collection. In memory of John we print a short extract from Linda Michael’s new essay on one of these works.
05 August 2020
Case by historic case
Collections aside, museum furniture can have its own historical significance. That’s why cabinets from
the former Macleay Museum are being restored and repurposed for a new lease on life.
05 August 2020
Moving in to the new museum
Meet some of the Chau Chak Wing Museum staff as they share their thoughts on the new building. Discover what they are most excited about, one week after moving in.
01 July 2020
The old and the new
For a short period in the early 1880s, two lighthouses stood on South Head in Sydney. The photographer
Charles Bayliss captured their overlap in time.
01 July 2020
Starting over: embedding First Nations principles in a new museum
How does a contemporary museum reconcile the colonial histories of its collections? For the Chau Chak Wing Museum, guidance from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities has been the key to creating a safe space for learning, healing, exchanging ideas and celebrating the heritage of Australia’s First Peoples.
11 June 2020
Statement in response to the destruction at Juukan Gorge
David Ellis, Director of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, responds to the recent destruction of two rock shelters in Juukan Gorge, a culturally significant 46,000 year old site in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
03 June 2020
Djon Mundine honoured with lifetime achievement award
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced Djon Mundine OAM a recipient of the Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement at their 2020 First Nations Arts Awards.