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Three women who left their mark on our collections

2 June 2020 -
Macleay Prodigy: Elizabeth Hahn. In 1958 Elizabeth Hahn (pictured top, centre) was offered the job of Curator of the Macleay Museum. ... During the late 1890s there was no formal curator of the Nicholson Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2020/03/06/international-womens-day-2020.html
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Major new exhibition explores the Coastline

10 May 2021 -
th. century copy, is unveiled in an opening exhibition at Sydney’s newest museum. ... There are many ways to engage with this exhibition,” said Dr Ann Stephen, senior curator at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/01/11/-major-new-exhibition-explores-the-coastline-.html
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Tertiary and adult programs - Chau Chak Wing Museum

integrated into your unit, please contact Academic Engagement Curators Eve Guerry and Visit Canvas for more information.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/education/tertiary-adult-programs.html
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Ancient Egyptian treasures discovered in suburban Sydney home

12 January 2023 -
Her grandfather had studied medicine at Sydney, so the family decided to donate the collection to the University's Nicholson Museum. ... The collection has now been catalogued and will go on display when the University's new Chau Chak Wing Museum opens.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/07/ancient-egyptian-treasures-discovered-in-suburban-sydney-home.html
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Podcasts - Chau Chak Wing Museum

30 January 2024 -
Host Dr Craig Barker is joined by the Museum's Curator of Natural History Collections, Dr Anthony Gill. ... Museums Collection Officer Matthew Huan explores several Australian Jezebel butterflies from the Chau Chak Wing Museum's Macleay Collections.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/podcasts.html
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Jane Thogersen - Chau Chak Wing Museum

www.sydney.edu.au/museum/about-us/our-people/jane-thogersen.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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Moroccan ‘moon’ mosaic

6 May 2021 -
Curator Candace Richards describes how a treasure gifted to Apollo 12’s Richard Gordon found its way into our collections. ... Candace Richards is Assistant Curator, Nicholson Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2021/05/05/moroccan-moon-mosaic.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