Zoom backgrounds from the Chau Chak Wing Museum collections
With classes, meetings and even after-work drinks moving online, we are making the most of听Zoom's 'virtual background' feature and releasing 10 Chau Chak Wing Museum collection images to use as a background.
To use the background images:
- Download your image by clicking through to the听, selecting the image you want to use and clicking 'Download'.
- While in a Zoom meeting, click the up arrow next to 'Stop Video' and select 'Choose Virtual Background'.听
- Next to the 'Choose Virtual Background' heading, you will see a '+'. Click this to upload your selection.
- Your new background should appear behind you!
- If you have any issues with clarity of the image it may be that your computer's processer is incompatible. Try sitting in front of a neutral background like a white wall.听
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Collection images available
Manly Beach
Emanuel Phillips Fox
1913
Oil on canvas
[Parthenon]
Professor W J Woodhouse
1890-1910
Glass negative
Marine
J W Power
1933
Oil on canvas
Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard, 1830
[Samoan Flying Fox]
Collected in听Fiji,听1865-1880
Sydney University
Kerry and Co
1890-1917
Glass negative, half plate
[Beach scene]
Elioth Gruner
1918
Oil on board
Attic red figure bell krater
Retorted Painter
Athens, Greece
375BC-350BC
Page from听Sarah Nicholson's scrapbook
Lithograph by听John Lewis Marks, coloured with watercolour paints
Lithograph dated 1832
The temple at Erments
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
1815-1819
Hand coloured lithograph on paper
Page from听Illustrations of Natural History Volume 3
Author:听Dru Drury, 1782
Artist:听Moses Harris, pre-1770
Top image:听[Parthenon], Professor W J Woodhouse, 1890-1910. Glass negative.