Set within the weighted concrete form of the JPW-designed Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, houses what is proudly proclaimed by the university’s website as “the most extensive collection of antiquities in the southern hemisphere.”
Built around the 3,000 artefacts originally donated by Sir Charles Nicholson in 1860, the collection has expanded over the years with various acquisitions, donations and bequests, alongside objects uncovered by the university’s own archaeological exploits into a collection some 10 times greater than
