Showing posts with label MGNSW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MGNSW. Show all posts

January 30, 2014

VIM Small Grants: 2013 winners announced

Stuart Spragg, Click go the Shears, 2009

Lockhart Museum Art displayed at the Gunyah Museum.
M & G News

Here are some quick stats to whet your appetite for applying this year:

  • 22 of 43 applications were successful
  • $51,436 allocated
  • The funds will support the work of an estimated 585 volunteers across 21 local government areas in 11 regions of NSW. 
VIM Leg-up grant is currently open.
VIM Skills Initiative grant is currently open.

Read on for the complete list of the VIM Grant winners for 2013.

VIM Development Project Grants – up to $7000
  • Australian Scout Museum – Strategic Plan development
  • Deniliquin Historical Society Museum – capacity building and collection care
  • Murrurundi Museum – Significance Assessment
  • Tongarra Museum – capacity building and documentary film development
  • Willoughby Museum – exhibition development
VIM Small Grants – Up to $2000
  • Australian Country Music Hall of Fame – archival hat boxes
  • Great Lakes Historical Society Museum – construction of display cases
  • Greens Gunyah Museum – conservation treatment
  • Illawarra Museum – archival and textile boxes
  • Lawrence Museum – textile storage shelving and materials for outdoor vehicle storage 
  • Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum – exhibition development
  • Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park and Museum – exhibition development
  • Maclean Bicentennial Museum – costume storage boxes
  • McCrossin’s Mill Museum – collection management database
  • Morpeth Museum – interpretive panels for exhibition
  • Moruya Museum – textile storage boxes
  • Mullumbimby Museum – conservation treatment
  • Museum of Walcha District Historical Society – textile storage boxes and mannequins
  • Nambucca Headland Museum – signage purchase
  • Narromine Aviation Museum – LED lighting upgrade
  • Nowra Museum – storage shelving
  • Old Courthouse Museum, Batemans Bay – AV equipment for exhibition
  • Port Macquarie Historical Museum – metal shelving for textile storage area
  • Rockley Mill Museum – MOSAiC database
  • Snowy Scheme Museum – equipment for the upkeep of vehicles in the collection
  • Snowy Scheme Museum – outdoor lighting
  • Sulphide Street Station Railway & Historical Museum – posters for public program display
  • Thredbo Ski Museum – MOSAiC database
  • Tinonee Museum – showcases
  • Tinonee Museum – archival materials
  • Wyalong Museum – storage shelving cabinets
  • Wymah School Museum – display cases
  • Yamba Museum – exhibition Development
VIM Leg Up Grants – Up to $500
  • Clyde River & Batemans Bay Historical Society – Significance Assessment workshop attendance
  • Dunera Museum – Access to Funding event attendance
  • Fort Scratchley Historical Site – Certificate IV Museum Practice Course at Newcastle TAFE for curator
  • Griffith Pioneer Park Museum – Access to Funding workshop participation
  • Golden Memories Museum – Oral histories and the digital age workshop attendance
  • Golden Memories Museum – MOSAiC database training
  • Gulgong Pioneer Museum – MOSAiC database training
  • Hay War Memorial High School Museum – IMAGinE awards event attandance
  • Holbrook Submarine Museum – Standards Mid Program Workshop attendance
  • Holbrook Submarine Museum –  Standards Debrief and Celebration event attendance
  • Kempsey Museum and Cultural Centre – IMAGinE awards event attendance
  • Mid North Coast Maritime Museum – IMAGinE Awards and the Regional Stake holders Forum attendance
  • Tenterfield & District Historical Society – Royal Australian Historical Society Regional Conference attendance
  • Wollondilly Heritage Centre – Newcastle TAFE for Cert IV Museum Practice course 
  • Yamba Museum – Connecting with the History Curriculum workshop hosting costs
  • Yamba Museum – IMAGinE Awards event attendance
  • Yeoval Historical Museum – MOSAiC database training



January 11, 2013

Museums & Galleries NSW - fellowship or mentorship in 2013

 9 January 2013

Opportunity Knocks
Mentorship and Fellowship


Are you interested in an Museums & Galleries NSW fellowship or mentorship in 2013? Then come along to a special presentation by the 2012 Fellowship & Mentorship recipients.

When: Tuesday 26 February 2012, 2.00pm – 4.30pm
Where: Museum & Galleries NSW, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo
More: www.mgnsw.org.au/sector_development/opportunity_knocks

 

2013 Arts Funding Program Guide

The Arts NSW 2013 Arts Funding Program Guide is now available online. Check this document out for all the information you will need about Arts NSW funding in 2013.

More: www.arts.nsw.gov.au


December 19, 2012

Collection Documentation and Significance Assessment - New grant programs


This initiative is commencing in 2013 and will enable community museums and keeping places to bring in specialists to work with volunteers on documentation and or significance assessment of objects and collections. Core projects include identifying significant objects, writing significance statements, cataloguing objects, digitally photographing objects and entering collection information into a database. This is an Arts NSW devolved funding program, administered by M&G NSW.

Amount: Up to $7,500
Closing: Tuesday 29 January 2013
More:  www.mgnsw.org.au


 Ref: M&G NSW News 19 December 2012

November 14, 2012

Telling It How It Is: Oral History for Museums


Collecting oral history; simple methods of recording, understanding and archiving narrated memories.

When: Friday 23 November 2012, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Where: Museums & Galleries NSW, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomoolloo
Cost: $35 (one participant) and $80 (three participants)
Make a day of it: $60 (IMAGinE awards + Telling It How It Is)
More: www.mgnsw.org.au