Australia: Cultural Heritage Organisations (Multi-Year) Program

Deadline: 3-Oct-22

The Tasmania Government has announced the applications for Cultural Heritage Organisations (Multi-Year) Program.

What can I apply for?

• You can apply for up to four years of funding towards activities like:
  • Permanent, temporary or touring exhibitions,
  • Education and public programs,
  • The employment of professional museum or gallery staff,
  • Marketing and administration costs.
• You can also apply for support to improve professional management of collections, including:
  • Improving access to collections,
  • The development of museums’ management policies,
  • The care of collections,
  • Product development.
  • You cannot use grant funds to purchase equipment.

Activities

• This program offers multi-year support to Tasmanian cultural heritage organisations delivering a range of high-quality activities that:
  • Strengthen Tasmania’s robust, diverse, and vibrant cultural heritage sector
  • Engage and inspire audiences and the wider community
  • And preserve Tasmania’s movable cultural heritage.

Eligibility Criteria

• As the applicant, your organisation must:
  • Be a Tasmanian museum, gallery or collection
  • Manage a publicly owned, publicly accessible, permanent collection of movable cultural heritage objects or artworks; and,
  • Have (or are working towards) regular opening hours.
  • Privately owned collections, federal government collections, Tasmanian Government Business Enterprises and Tasmanian Government Departments are not eligible to apply.

Criteria

• Arts Tasmania use three, equally weighted criteria to guide the assessment of applications These are:
  • Quality
    • Is the activity conceptually strong?
    • Why is the proposed activity important?
    • Are the key personnel experienced, or have the potential to develop and grow?
  • Planning
    • Is the project financially feasible?
    • Is the timeline reasonable and achievable?
    • What partnerships are in place to help drive the activity?
  • Benefit
    • How does the proposed project benefit the applicant, the artist, the collection or the community?
    • What is the audience experience?

For more information, visit https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/grants_and_loans/cultural_heritage_organisations_multi-year