Past recipients of MMAPSS funding
The museum’s grants program (known as the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme or MMAPSS) offers funding to regional museums and organisations.
Since 1995, the scheme has given over $2.53 million in support of over 551 projects and over 85 museological training opportunities to organisations in Queensland, New South Wales (including Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands), Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
2024 MMAPSS Recipients
Maritime grave to be restored
Camperdown Cemetery Trust
Boomerang yacht
Sydney Heritage Fleet
Launch day for the restored Alma Gray, which was originally built c 1896
Merimbula-Imlay Historical Society Inc.
Norwegian Whaling logbook
Discovery Bay Tourism Precinct
2023 MMAPSS Recipients
Old Tom skeleton in its existing display
Eden Killer Whale Museum
Batemans Bay Historical Society
Portland Lifeboat
Portland Maritime Discovery Centre
2022 MMAPSS Recipients
Historic Trawler XLCR Launch Day 1915, hand coloured image
Newman Senior Technical College Port Macquarie
Lismore Museum Ships Project 1 from Box D11 Riverboat Richmond River possibly Australasia
Richmond River Historical Society Inc.
PS Canally
Richmond River Historical Society, Phil Reed
SV Westward Sailing on the Derwent
Maritime Museum of Tasmania
2021 MMAPSS Recipients
2020 MMAPSS Recipients
The KINGFISHER ready for restoration
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
Painting, Of Rio Janerio; George Herman Bruhn; c1847
Port Macquarie Museum Collection: object number 164W
Coralyn East Devonport 2 circa 1920
Maritime Museum of Tasmanian
Perahu model of the vessel which was used by the Makassans
Islamic Museum of Australia
Gary Tonkin, Scrimshaw Artist
Albany’s Historic Whaling Station