Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The Australian Government is accepting applications for National Cultural Heritage Account 2022/23.
Objects
- In determining whether an amount will be expended from the Account, preference or priority will be given to the following Australian protected objects:
- Class A objects in Australia and overseas;
- Class B objects which have been denied an export permit;
- Class B objects which have been granted an export permit on condition that they be available at fair market value for purchase by an eligible cultural organisation
- Class B objects which are overseas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Australian cultural organisations are eligible to apply for funding assistance from the Account. Such organisations might be museums, art galleries, libraries, archives, historic buildings and others, having permanent and appropriately maintained/conserved collections which are accessible to the public.
- In considering applications for funding assistance, preference will be given to Cultural Organisations with the intention and capacity to care for and provide public access to Australian Protected Objects in perpetuity.
- Assistance may also be given to other persons, particularly where they intend to gift the object to an eligible cultural organisation with a permanent public collection.
- Permanent public collections may include special collections which can only be accessed by a particular group of people, such as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander keeping place for sacred/secret material.
- Given the special significance of Class A objects of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage to indigenous communities, grants in respect of those objects may be made to groups which do not have a permanent public collection.
- When funding assistance is provided to a third party in order to gift an object to an appropriate cultural organisation, the grant and the gifting of the object are to be simultaneous.
For more information, visit National Cultural Heritage Account.
