Port Macquarie - Care and handling of photographs workshop 'To have and to hold'

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Disaster planning workshop at Holbrook Submarine Museum, funded by a M&G NSW Skills Development Grant.

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Skills Development - MA Mid North Coast

Volunteers got the chance to build their skills in disaster preparedness at a workshop organised by the MA Mid North Coast Chapter.

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Skills Development -Broken Hill Historical Society

Kay Soderland, Preservation Australia, presents a conservation workshop to museum volunteers in Broken Hill using video conferencing.

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Skills Development - Corowa Federation Museum

Museum consultant Margot Jolly conducted an intensive two day workshop at Corowa Federation Museum focusing on collection management. The first day was open to museum volunteers from throughout the region.

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Skills Development - Willougby Museum

Willoughby Museum volunteers attend a MOSAiC training workshop. The training allowed the museum to better identify provenance, significance and preservation needs of the collection.

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Skills Development Grants

Skills Development Grants provide funding to volunteer museums and museum networks for regional or state focused skill development training and networking events.

There are no set categories for funding, and applications for a broad range of projects will be considered.

Previous Skills Development Grants provided funding for the “Working Spaces for Museum Volunteers” Conferences, regional training workshops on a cataloguing software program, Disaster Planning  and Significance workshops.

Skills Development Grants are open to museums and Aboriginal Cultural Centres (with artefact collections and displays) with up to two full time paid staff members (no more than 70 hours of paid staffing per week) as well as museum networks such as Museums Australia Chapters.

Applications must be submitted at least 6 weeks before the activity/event is scheduled to take place.

Amount: Up to $4,000
Closing: 24 October or when funds are exhausted

You must read the 2021 Guidelines before applying:

  Download - 2021 Skills Development - Guidelines WFH

Need more information? Contact the Museum Programs and Collections Coordinator

 

APPLICATIONS CLOSE IN

The Grant Programs are a wonderful way for small, volunteer run organizations to access funding for projects that they may not otherwise be able to carry out. M&GNSW staff are very approachable, helpful and knowledgeable. It is also an important way for smaller organisations to feel part of a bigger community of dedicated full time industry professionals, and to gain and share valuable knowledge with and from others.

St Joseph’s Convent Heritage Museum Recipient of Skills Development Grant, 2019

The Grant Programs are a wonderful way for small, volunteer run organisations to access funding for projects that they may not otherwise be able to carry out. M&G NSW staff are very approachable, helpful and knowledgeable. It is also an important way for smaller organisations to feel part of a bigger community of dedicated full time industry professionals, and to gain and share valuable knowledge with and from others.

The Perthville Convent Heritage Centre Recipient of Skills Development Grant, 2019

 

SUPPORTER LOGOS

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  Download - NSW Government logo eps
  Download - M&G NSW logo jpg
  Download - M&G NSW logo eps

 

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS

  Download - 2018 Skills Development Grant Recipients
  Download - 2017 Skills Development Grant Recipients
  Download - 2016 Skills Development Grant Recipients
  Download - 2015 Skills Development Grant Recipients
  Download - 2014 VIM Skills Initiative Grant Recipients
  Download - 2013 VIM Skills Initiative Grant Recipients
  Download - 2012 VIM Skills Initiative Grant Recipients
  Download - 2007-2011 VIM Skills Initiative Grant Recipients

 

 

The Volunteer Museum Grant Program is a Create NSW devolved funding program, administered by Museums & Galleries of NSW (M&G NSW) on behalf of the NSW Government.