Arts Tasmania - Cultural heritage organisations - September 2025

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Cultural heritage organisations

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Program guidelines

This program enables cultural heritage organisations to deliver projects or annual programs that:

  • preserve Tasmania’s moveable cultural heritage
  • develop and share high-quality cultural heritage experiences
  • create opportunities for Tasmanian volunteers and museum professionals
  • connect with and inspire audiences, and the wider community.

It also provides funding towards the purchase of materials for collection management.

Organisations can submit one application per round.

For more information, please visit Cultural heritage organisations.

To apply for support from Arts Tasmania's museum professionals see Roving Curators.

Eligibility

This program supports Tasmanian cultural heritage organisations, including galleries and museums, with permanent collections that are publicly owned and publicly accessible. Applicants must meet Arts Tasmania’s general eligibility requirements.

Applications will not be accepted from:

  • privately owned collections
  • federal government collections
  • Tasmanian Government Business Enterprises, and;
  • Tasmanian Government Departments.

Organisations in receipt of multi-year support from Arts Tasmania are not eligible to apply to other Arts Tasmania programs for the term of the multi-year agreement.

Eligible costs and activities

Organisations can apply for funding towards activities that improve access to, and care for, collections such as:

  • archival materials
  • education and public programs
  • marketing and promotion including graphic design and printing costs
  • permanent, temporary, or touring exhibitions
  • product development
  • software licenses
  • wages and fees for museum professionals.

Arts Tasmania expects that museum professionals are paid fairly for their work. For more information, please visit wages and fees.

Permanent, fixed-term or casual employees of any part of the Creative Industries, Sport and Visitor Economy Division of the Department of State Growth (with regular hours that exceed 0.3 of a full-time load) cannot receive payment through Arts Tasmania’s programs.

Overdue acquittals

If your organisation has received support from Arts Tasmania in the past and the acquittal for this support is now overdue, it is not eligible to receive more support until all overdue acquittal reports are submitted and approved.

I confirm that I have read and understood the eligibility requirements for this program. * Required

Help with your application

We encourage you to talk to our grants team about your application before the closing date. 

You can contact us on 03 6165 6666 or grants@arts.tas.gov.au 

You can book an online meeting to discuss your application using Bookings.

To view the results of previous rounds, see Past Decisions.