Supporting the Cultural Collections
Would you like to support the University’s cultural collections? Funds have been donated by philanthropic trusts, corporate sponsors, friends groups, staff, students, alumni and many other benefactors. Their generosity has helped to acquire, preserve, catalogue, publish and exhibit the rare and special items across the University’s 32 cultural collections.
Donations
Donations to the University of Melbourne are tax deductible for Australian tax purposes. You can make a gift online. Under ‘Gift purpose’, select ‘Library and Cultural Collections’. If you wish your gift to go to a particular collection, please add the details in the ‘Special Instructions’ box.
Joining a Friends Group
Friends and members groups provide ongoing support for collections in many different ways. For a modest annual subscription, you will receive invitations to special events, regular newsletters and the substantial twice-yearly magazine University of Melbourne Collections. There are three collections friends groups at the University of Melbourne:
Friends of the Baillieu Library
Members of the Ian Potter Museum of Art
Benefits to the Collections
Read about some of the ways collections have benefited from the generosity of past and current financial supporters. In particular, funds given to the collections through the University’s Annual Appeal are distributed as grants across the University’s 33 cultural collections:
Ian Potter Foundation supports Tiegs Zoology Museum
Paintings by an Australian woman artist conserved
Cultural Collections receive support from University Appeal
Cultural Treasures Days, September 2008, funded by the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund
Rare Collections in the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library are being catalogued thanks to the generosity of the Louise B.M. Hanson-Dyer & J.B. Hanson Bequest.
Financial support for the collections in 2006 and 2007
Friends of the Baillieu Library: 40 years on
Major donor benefits the Classics and Archaeology Library
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship brings new art into the VCA Collection
Classics program received $1million boost
The Sir Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund supports conservation
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum receives grant
Cultural collections grant helps conserve Victorian heritage concert programs
R.E. Ross Trust sponsors position of Classics and Archaeology curator-lecturer
Adopt a painting or light a gallery at the Ian Potter Museum of Art