Interior of the Chau Chak Wing Museum April 2021

The Chau Chak Wing Museum is a museum at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...

, Australia. It was formed by the amalgamation of the

Nicholson Museum The Nicholson Museum was an archaeological museum at the University of Sydney home to the Nicholson Collection, the largest collection of antiquities in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Founded in 1860, the collection spans the ancient ...

, the

Macleay Museum The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney, was a natural history museum located on the University's campus, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Museum was amalgamanted into Chau Chak Wing Museum, which opened in 2020. The Macleay ...

, and the university art collection, with the building funded by businessman

Chau Chak Wing Chau Chak-wing ( zh, s=周泽荣, t=周澤榮, p=Zhōu Zéróng, sl=Jau1 Jaak6-wing4; born 1949), is a Chinese-Australian property developer known for his Kingold Group business based in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China (PRC). He became a nat ...

. In 2021, the museum won the Museums and Galleries National Award (MAGNA) and two Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA).

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