THE CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUM: A RENAISSANCE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY’S CULTURAL COLLECTIONS – TAASA Review December 2020
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Paul Donnelly and David Ellis I n November 2020 the Chau Chak Wing Museum opened at the University of Sydney.
It brings together under a single roof the collections of what had been previously the Nicholson Museum, Macleay Museum and University Art Gallery to create an interdisciplinary institution suited to the complexity and interconnectedness of our modern world.
The striking cantilevered building designed by Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW) sits within a green frame of 100-year old fig trees across from the Fisher Library, and opposite the 1850s Gothic-Revival sandstone quadrangle; the public entrance to the museum is calculatedly on the axis of the earliest public building on campus, the Great Hall...