St Lucia campus University of Queensland

1 st lucia campus

1.1 great court
1.2 transport , other amenities
1.3 museums

st lucia campus

in 1927, land on st lucia campus built resumed brisbane city council using money donated james o neil mayne , sister mary emelia mayne replace less spacious city campus. city campus home gardens point campus of queensland university of technology. construction of new university @ st lucia began in 1937.

great court

at centre heritage-listed great court – 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) open area surrounded helidon sandstone buildings grotesques of great academics , historic scenes, floral , faunal motifs , crests of universities , colleges around world. central semi-circular quadrangle features connected arcade students reach section under cover. great court added queensland heritage register in 2002.

transport , other amenities


uq citycat terminal

the 274 acres (111 ha) campus includes sporting fields, gardens, duck ponds, , cycling tracks. ring road runs sir william mcgregor drive chancellor s place running past union complex , bookshop , jd story building enables access close of built areas on campus dropping off vehicles.

chancellor s place bus stop, institute molecular bioscience

the university served university of queensland ferry wharf, westernmost stop , terminus of citycat service. translink operates 2 bus stations on campus: university of queensland bus station @ chancellor s place in west, connecting passengers brisbane s inner west suburbs such indooroopilly, toowong , milton; , uq lakes busway station in east, western terminus of eastern busway, services brisbane s inner south suburbs such woolloongabba, carindale , mount gravatt via eleanor schonell bridge. bridge allows pedestrians , cyclists cross brisbane river, reach dutton park. closest stops of queensland rail city network toowong railway station, park road railway station, , dutton park railway station.

there 3 refectories provide food students. these main refectory in student union complex, biological sciences refectory under biological sciences library, , physiology refectory under physiology lecture theatres. student union complex houses student union , other student services.

museums

uq art museum - james , amelia mayne centre.

the university of queensland art museum located in james , mary emelia mayne centre on st lucia campus. art museum established in forgan smith tower in 1976 house artworks collected university of queensland since 1940s, relocating present site in 2004. today, more 3,000 artworks, university s art collection queensland s second largest public art collection.

the university houses r.d. milns antiquities museum in michie building (bldg 9, level 2) contains queensland s publicly accessible collection of antiquities ancient rome, greece, egypt , near east. museum supports research , teaching @ university. uq anthropology museum (also in michie building on level 1) contains significant collection of ethnographic material. open public.