Touring Resources

Travelling Exhibitions: A Practical Handbook for Metropolitan and Regional Galleries and Museums by Sara Kelly, published by NETS Victoria, 2002. Information about Budgeting and a Touring Exhibition Checklist from this resource are available online.

Standards for touring exhibitions, published by Collections Link (UK), a UK advisory service managed by the Collections Trust in partnership with the Institute of Conservation (ICON) and the National Preservation Office (NPO).

For best practice guidelines for artist loan fees for funded exhibitions, National Association for the Visual Arts.

2. Legal considerations

3. Marketing

4. Conservation issues

Condition Reporting and General Conservation Guidelines for Touring Exhibitions Provides guidelines and information for artworkers involved in handling travelling exhibitions, by Errol J. Allen, an ART ON THE MOVE skills publication

Richard Ashbridge, Planning the packing for a touring exhibition, V&A online Journal SUMMER 2006: NUMBER 53

5. Grants

Visions of Australia - Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) - The Visions of Australia program is the Australian Government’s national touring Exhibitions funding program. It assists eligible organisations to develop and tour Exhibitions of Australian Cultural Material throughout Australia. Funding is available for both Development and Touring costs. There are two funding rounds each year.

Incoming Touring Exhibition Grants (ITEGs) – Museums & Galleries NSW The Incoming Touring Exhibition Grant provides assistance to public visual art organisations and craft and design centres throughout New South Wales. The program is managed by Museums & Galleries NSW and funded by Arts NSW. Public galleries or art organisations in NSW with a proven commitment to the development of exhibitions of contemporary visual art, craft, design and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art are eligible to apply.

Australia International Cultural Council (AICC) Grants Program - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - The AICC grants program provides funding for international arts and cultural projects that promote Australia overseas, reinforcing Australia’s standing as a stable, sophisticated and innovative nation with a rich and diverse culture and promoting a contemporary and positive image of Australia’s Indigenous people.

6. Selection of touring exhibition organisers in NSW