the Nguyen Collection of Anglo Australian Arts (NCoAAA) acknowledge the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri Woy Wurrung as the rightful owners of their sacred Lands, Sky and Waterways where we currently hold our collections. It is also here, where countless occupiers like Vietnamese migrants and exiles have come seeking opportunity, safety and refuge.

inverting who gets to collect and access someone else’s material culture and history, this project rejects the settler-supremacy and nationalistic mythologies of so-called Australia.

proposing how private collections can hold museums and their publics to account, the NCoAAA exclusively offers our collections, resources and time to First Nations and displaced communities who live with fragmented access to their own cultural and material inheritence