Deadline: 11-Sep-22
The Museums & Galleries of NSW is accepting applications for Project Development Grants Program to empower community museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces to carry out strategic and innovative projects with mid to long term outcomes.
The grants can also provide an opportunity to work productively with an appropriate consultant as a skill development opportunity.
Priorities
- Collection documentation projects including cataloguing, data entry and preparing statements of significance for collection items
- Projects that develop the capacity for cultural diversity within the museum or involve Indigenous partnerships.
Funding Information
- The amount that can be applied for under this program is a minimum of $2,500 and a maximum of $7,500 (GST exclusive).
Project Development Grants will fund
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Various mid to long term strategic projects, such as (but not limited) to the following:
- Strategic planning and policy development – working with a consultant on elements of a strategic plan, business plan or policy development (e.g. strategic planning and policies concerning succession, disaster preparedness, interpretation, collections, access, cultural diversity, audience development, volunteers)
- Collection and significance assessments – working with a consultant to identify the themes, scope, and significance of a collection or objects
- Preservation needs assessments and conservation – working with a consultant to survey collections and their environments, and conduct conservation work if required
- Education and public programs – collaboration with educational organisations to develop public programs, education packages, research, and collection documentation projects
- Exhibition development – development of travelling exhibitions, exhibitions in-house, hosting a travelling exhibition or developing a virtual exhibition.
- Cultural diversity and Indigenous policies – projects that develop partnerships with culturally diverse and/or Indigenous communities and address issues of access and management of relevant collections
Eligibility Criteria
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To apply for Project Development Grants, an organisation must:
- Be incorporated (or provide the details of an auspicing body that is incorporated, such as a local council) OR provide evidence of appropriate alternative governance structures (eg. S355 Committee, Trust, Company limited by guarantee, Local government authority, etc.)
- Be not-for-profit
- Be an established museum or Aboriginal Cultural Centre with artefact collections and displays (not an archive or historical society without a museum function)
- Be regularly open to the public (i.e. not open by appointment only)
- Have no more than the equivalent of two full-time paid positions
- Have a current Strategic Plan, or be requesting funds in this application to develop such a plan
- Have a Collection Policy
- Have discussed their application with an M&G NSW team member
- Have a volunteer from the applying organisation as the contact person for the application
- Agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the grant
- Not apply for funding if they have also applied for, or received, Create NSW funding for the same activity
- Have acquitted all previously awarded Volunteer Museum grants (excepting current Leg Ups)
- Ensure that the project meets all current NSW Health Covid Safe Guidelines
Note: Museums that are currently supported by a Museum Advisor through M&G NSW’s Museum Advisor Program must have a signed supporting letter from their Museum Advisor.
For more information, visit Project Development Grants.
For more information, visit https://mgnsw.org.au/sector/funding/grants-we-administer/volunteer-museum-grants/project-development/