Sydney's Chinatown Museum Stuck on Red Tape

Published on 7.21.25

  A heritage building in Sydney's Chinatown, intended as the Museum of Chinese in Australia, has spent four years with its doors shut despite receiving millions of dollars in government funding. The site, which was listed on Google Maps as a museum, now reads "Sydney City Library Haymarket" due to refurbishment work that never began. Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Sydney MP Tanya Plibersek visited the building in April to announce $2.6 million in federal funding for fit-outs, but it remains closed.

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