Chau Chak Wing Museum
The Chau Chak Wing Museum is a museum at the University of Sydney, Australia. It was formed by the amalgamation of the Nicholson Museum, the Macleay Museum, and the university art collection, with the building partially funded by a donation from businessman Chau Chak Wing. It opened in November 2020. Building 
The building was designed by Johnson Pilton Walker. The building is five-storey, with four levels of exhibition space. Collections 
The museum has three main collections, the Macleay Collection, the Nicholson Collection, and the University of Art Collection. Macleay Collection 
The Macleay Collection is the oldest natural history collection in Australia, originating in the cabinets of Alexander Macleay, and expanding through the collecting networks of the Macleay family from Charles Darwin to Sir Stamford Raffles. It contains historically rich collections of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and Pacific Islanders' cultural material, including objects collected on the early scientific expedition, the Chevert, and those collected in the early years of anthropology at the University of Sydney. The work of University of Sydney scientists is reflected in the collection of scientific instruments and apparatus used in research and teaching, and is part of the story of scientific practice in Australia. The Historic Photograph Collection records life in Australia and the Pacific region, from the late 1840s to the 1960s, as captured by both commercial and amateur photographers. It includes a wide range of photographic formats, reflecting the changing technology of photography. In addition, the Macleay Collections holds material reflecting the museum's history, including a significant library, furniture, documents and ephemera relating to the major collectors. Nicholson Collection 
The Nicholson Collection contains nearly 30,000 artefacts representing ancient cultures from the Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East and Europe. Spanning from the pre-Neolithic to the late medieval period, these artefacts hold intimate stories of people’s everyday lives, ancient environments, and cultural activity for over more than 10,000 years. The collection was founded in 1860 by Sir Charles Nicholson (University Provost 1854–62) with a donation of Etruscan, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities acquired to establish a museum, "calculated materially to promote the object[ives] for which the [The University of Sydney] was founded." (Nicholson's letter of presentation, 1860). By 1870, the University of Sydney's Museum of Antiquities included over 3,000 artefacts and had been nicknamed the Nicholsonian Museum. Over the past 160 years, the Nicholson Collection has expanded through ambitious acquisition programs, generous donation and private bequests. International excavations in Egypt, Cyprus and the Middle East, partly sponsored by the University of Sydney have also contributed significant objects to the collection. University Art Collection 
The collection contains more than 8000 works including paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Among the first donors was one of its founders, Sir Charles Nicholson, who gave some 30 European paintings, tapestries and sculptures in 1865. The strength of the collection lies in Australian painting – including Indigenous art – as well as significant holdings in European and Asian art. Current exhibitions 

 Ambassadors
 Ancient Cultures of the Middle East
 Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature
 Crossroads
 Hercules: Myth and Legacy
 Impressions of Greece
 Instrumental 3
 Mediterranean Identities
 Mikala Dwyer: Penelope and the Seahorse
 The Mummy Room
 Natural Selections: animal worlds
 Ömie barkcloth: Pathways of nioge
 Pharaonic Obsessions
 Photography and the performative
 Roman Spectres
 The Sherman Gift
 The Staged Photograph
 Tidal Kin

Past exhibitions

2023 

 Australian Seashores
 Coastline
 D Harding with Kate Harding: Through a lens of visitation
 Instrumental 2
 Object/Art/Specimen
 Sentient Paper

2022 

 Animal gods
 Instrumental
 Kamay (Botany Bay) spears: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
 Light & Darkness
 Pacific views
 Sarah Goffman: Applied Arts

2021 

 The Business of Photography
 Daniel Boyd: Pediment/Impediment
 Gululu dhuwala djalkiri: welcome to the Yolŋu foundations

Awards 
In 2021, the museum won the Museums and Galleries National Award (MAGNA) and two Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA). The museum won the 2023 UMAC Award for its Object-Based Learning Program. It is the first time the UMAC Award has been won by an Australian university. Research 
In July 2017, the museum launched a crowdsourcing project to help identify and catalogue the Woodhouse Photographic Archive of glass-plate negatives taken in Greece during the 1890s and early 1900s. There is an ongoing research project revising the dottyback fish subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae. References 

Museums in Sydney
University museums in Australia
2020 establishments in Australia
Museums established in 2020
University of Sydney