Cultural Collections: Supporting the Collections

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 31 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

Grainger Museum Members

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 31 cultural collections:

The Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah fund supports conservation of historic plant collection from Mt Buffalo

'Mapping a digital future for precious collections', Annual Giving Update, University of Melbourne, April 2010, [p. 4].

Breadth studies benefit as Academic Programs Curator appointed at Potter - New position funded by Ian Potter Foundation

Did you know? Macgeorge House and the Macgeorge Bequest

An important book to celebrate an important career

Cultural Collections Benefit From 2009 Inaugural Scholarly Information Innovation Grants

New museums and collections brochure funded by Cultural and Community Relations Advisory Group

Friends of Baillieu boost library's rare collections

'A grand encore for the Grainger', Annual Giving Update, University of Melbourne, 2009, [p. 3].

Ian Potter Foundation supports Tiegs Zoology Museum

Ursula Hoff Internship supports research on print collections of the University of Melbourne and the National Gallery of Victoria

Baillieu family supports listing and research of the papers of University Chancellors and other office-bearers