New South Wales Heritage Database (Local Government Register)
Official name
Macleay Museum; Macleay Museum Building, University of Sydney Including Interior
Type
Local government heritage (built)
Criteria
a., c., d., e., f.
Designated
14 December 2012
Reference no.
I79
Type
Education
Category
University
The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney, was a natural history museum located on the University's Camperdown campus, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The museum was dissolved in 2016 and upon opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum in 2020, its collections were amalgamated into it.[1]
The Macleay Museum was added to the City of Sydney local government heritage list on 14 December 2012.[2][3]
^"Chau Chak Wing Museum" (Press release). The University of Sydney. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
^"Macleay Museum Building, University of Sydney Including Interior". New South Wales Heritage Database. Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^"Macleay Museum". New South Wales Heritage Database. Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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drurii Westwood, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) in the MacleayMuseum, University of Sydney, Australia". Zootaxa. 4161 (1): 141–5. doi:10...
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