Small museums increasing their resources
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| Launceston Mechanics' Institute,1861. Photographer, William Cawston |
The Lynne Stacpoole Caring for Your Collection program
provides smaller community collections and museums $1 000 to purchase assets to
assist in the preservation or presentation of their collection.
In 2015, three small museums and collections will receive
funding through the program.
The funds for this program were generously donated to Arts Tasmania by former Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board member, and past chair of the Small Museums and Collections Panel, Mrs Lynne Stacpoole.
Most small museums in Tasmania are volunteer run, and can
find it difficult to secure funds for capital items. Arts Tasmania’s principal
support program for these collections, the Small Museums and Collections
program, excludes capital items.
Recipients of the 2015 Lynne Stacpoole Caring for Your
Collection program are:
• Ulverstone
History Museum, which is administered by the Central Coast Council. This museum will receive $1 000 towards the
purchase of a data projector, which will assist in sharing images from its
collection with the public.
• The
Launceston Tramway Museum. This museum
will receive $1 000 towards the purchase of blinds to protect its collection
from light damage.
• Friends
of the Launceston Mechanics' Institute.
This organisation will use their grant of $1 000 towards the purchase of
an upright glass display cabinet, to allow them to show more objects from their
collection to the public.
Arts Tasmania
Thursday, 19 December 2014
