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Preserving a body of work

14 October 2022 -
Over the last twenty years, the collection has grown and expanded under the skillful hand of its curator, Dr Murat Kekic (MSc ’96, PhD ’04). ... Having majored in biotechnology, he worked in the University’s Museum of Human Anatomy and then went on
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Exhibition pays tribute to landmark Australian Seashores book

12 January 2023 -
Macleay Collections, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, HP84.7.110.57. ... Tony Gill, curator of Natural History, Chau Chak Wing Museum. Nyctiphanes australis Sars, 1883, krill.
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University of Sydney scoops up humanities grants

19 June 2019 -
Bestowed annually by the Australian Academy of Humanities – Australia’s national body for the humanities – grants were awarded to four academics, making the University of Sydney the largest grant recipientSenior Curator ... at the Nicholson Museum,
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Starting over embedding First Nations principles in a new museum

12 November 2020 -
Starting over: embedding First Nations principles in a new museum. 1 July 2020. ... David Ellis, Director, Chau Chak Wing Museum. First Nations initiatives in the museum.
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Moving in to the new museum

5 August 2020 -
Candace Richards, Assistant Curator, Nicholson Collection. Staff inductions, week one at the new museum. ... Dr Jude Philp, Senior Curator, Macleay Collections. "It’s remarkable how the new museum sits so lightly on the slope, it appears to hover in
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Specimens in the Macleay Collections revealed to be among the first ever collected for science

12 August 2021 -
Mijlouho-Maclay Fellow, Macleay Museum) and Dr Anthony Gill (Natural History Curator, Chau Chak Wing Museum) have just published a paper in the journal Zootaxa, announcing their findings: the location of ... Dr Anthony Gill, Natural History Curator, Chau
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New museum in Sydney: 12 must-see treasures that will be on show

10 January 2023 -
Museums are not static places,” says senior curator Dr Jamie Fraser. ... She also worked with the University’s curator on the Macleay Museum’s collection of scientific instruments.
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Sydney academics and alumni named 2021 Fulbright Scholars

30 June 2021 -
Pippa Mott (BA ’12). Curator, Museum of Old and New Art. ... develop and present a range of museum exhibitions, festival projects and commissioned artworks.
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07 - Chau Chak Wing Museum

7 April 2022 -
. 07 April 2022. Five questions with Senior Curator Melanie Pitkin. ... Discover where her love for ancient history began and what she's excited to do at the Museum..
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Women painting women: Chau Chak Wing Museum paintings selected for Archie 100

8 July 2021 -
Drawing on the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, and private collections both in Australia and internationally, Archie 100 is on display until 26 September at the Art Gallery of NSW. ... As Senior Curator Ann Stephen observes, “the art of
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