Chau Chak Wing Museum welcomes donation of Tracey Moffatt’s archive
Chau Chak Wing Museum welcomes donation of Tracey Moffatt’s archive, 10 August 2026 A new display of artworks, ephemera and archival material by leading Australian artist Tracey Moffatt celebrates the donation of her archive to the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. The anonymous gift includes an edition of every photographic work, […]
The Secret Life of Books in the Museum: The Odyssey
The Secret Life of Books in the Museum: The Odyssey, Chau Chak Wing Museum, August 2026 Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is the blockbuster event of the season, taking the one of the oldest and still greatest epics of all time – Homer’s Odyssey – and giving it what it always lacked. That is to say: Matt Damon. […]
Chau Chak Wing Museum presents Harry Seidler exhibition
Chau Chak Wing Museum presents Harry Seidler exhibition, Chau Chak Wing Museum , 21 July 2026 A retrospective exhibition on the work and life of preeminent Australian architect Harry Seidler, opens at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum following a highly successful exhibition at San Marco Art Centre (SMAC), in Venice last year. Open from […]
AFTERLIVES, INTERRUPTED
AFTERLIVES, INTERRUPTED, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, July 2026 Led by members of the ground-breaking Human Remains Research Project team, unearth four ancient Egyptian individuals. Far from their place of birth and death, who decides how these individuals are treated, studied, or displayed? What responsibilities arise when the dead are also understood as ancestors by living communities? This […]
Call for Papers Closing Soon: The Future of Museum Narratives
Call for Papers Closing Soon: The Future of Museum Narratives, The Inclusive Museum, 2026 CLOSING SOON: 22 August : Proposals aligned with the The Inclusive Museum Research Network annual themes: Visitors, Collections, and Representations. The Nineteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, the annual meeting of The Inclusive Museum Research Network, taking place 22–24 September 2026 […]
Chau Chak Wing Museum exhibn “Tidal Kin:
Stories from the Pacific
CCWM & The Kamay spears: Indigenous history
a colonial legacy, and an uncertain future
Kamay spears taken by Cook return to Aus
from Cambridge MAA to join exhib at CCWM
WAM Boola Bardip & Collecting the West
5 objects telling a story of colonialism
Univ of Sydney’s Nicholson colln prepares
to relocate to Chau Chak Wing museum