The National Cultural Heritage Account – Eligible objects and who can apply
What objects are eligible for funding?
In allocating Account funding, priority will be given to the following Australian protected objects:
- Class A objects in Australia and overseas
- Class B objects that have been denied an export permit
- Class B objects that have been granted an export permit on condition that they be available at fair market value for purchase by an eligible cultural organisation
- Class B objects that are overseas.
Who is eligible to apply?
Australian cultural organisations are eligible to apply for funding assistance from the Account. Such organisations might be museums, art galleries, libraries, archives, historic buildings, and have permanent and appropriately maintained/conserved collections that are accessible to the public.
In considering applications for funding assistance, preference is given to cultural organisations with the intention and capacity to care for and provide public access to Australian protected objects in perpetuity.
Permanent public collections include special collections that can only be accessed by a particular group of people, such as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander keeping place for sacred/secret material.
Given the special significance of Class A objects of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage to Indigenous communities, grants in respect of those objects may be made to groups which do not have a permanent public collection.
Assistance may also be given to other persons, particularly where they intend to gift the object to an eligible cultural organisation with a permanent public collection. When funding assistance is provided to a third party in order to gift an object to an appropriate cultural organisation, the grant and the gifting of the object must be simultaneous.
How to Apply
Applications for funding assistance from the Account should be made in writing. For more information please contact:
Cultural Property Section
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Email: movable.heritage@environment.gov.au
Tel: 02 6274 1810
Fax: 02 6274 2731
