Appendixes 11:: 12 Fisherwoman with cat by Yvonne Atkinson (1918–99), oil on board, 1937. Reproduced courtesy of the artist’s children. Lent by Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia 100 101 Appendix 1 MMAPSS grants and internships MMAPSS grants and internships Narooma Visitor Centre, Narooma $4,500 Tasmania With a well-known conservator, the Narooma Visitor Centre National Trust of Australia (Tasmania), Launceston $9,350 The Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support and Narooma Lighthouse Museum used the funding For the Runnymede house ships’ portraits project. Two key Scheme (MMAPSS) provides grants of up to $10,000 to develop collection and preservation policies for the portraits of Runnymede and Fortitude were cleaned and to non-profit maritime museums and historical societies, Narooma Lighthouse. usually community-based and run by volunteers, to fund conserved, to be used as centrepieces for an interpretive restoration, conservation, collection management and Norfolk Island Museum, Norfolk Island $7,198 exhibition focused on the whaling enterprise developed exhibition development projects. It is administered by the For the Post-1856 Norfolk Island Maritime Project, by the Bayley brothers. museum with funding from the Australian Government the condition of key artefacts for two important exhibits, through the Department of Regional Australia, Local Whaling and Resolution, were conserved and enhanced; Victoria the bell from the Resolution was rehoused; photos were Government, Arts and Sport. The scheme was initiated Echuca Historical Society Inc, Echuca $2,500 digitised; and the display panel was upgraded to form in 1995 and since then over 260 projects across all Many of the society’s paper items have been deemed a complete exhibit. Australian states and most of its territories have been ‘urgent priority’ by a professional conservationist. supported. This year we awarded $99,947 to 17 heritage Port Stephens Historical Society Inc, Port Stephens $1,700 Conservation 2011 was aimed at conserving a variety projects. Total awarded this year including internships For the finalisation of the Inner Light Museum make-over of maritime-related paper items such as books, photos was $105,947. project, begun in 2010 with MMAPSS funding, the exhibition and paintings was improved, the visual display further developed and MMAPSS grants awarded in 2011–2012 photos enhanced and digitised for preservation. Western Australia Richmond River Historical Society Inc, Lismore $5,988 City of Bunbury, Bunbury $5,000 New South Wales For the Healing Sickness at Sea project, a medicine chest For the Koombana Bay archaeological dig, two areas from the SS St George, which had been untouched previously identified as likely to contain wrecks of American Balmoral Beach Club, Balmoral Beach $4,730 for nearly a century, underwent chemical analysis ships were excavated over a period of eight days, with For the development and preservation of the archives of of its contents before being put on display along with a team of professionals engaged to ensure unearthed items the Balmoral Beach Club. The club is nearly halfway through interpretive materials. were properly identified and recorded and to recommend a six-stage project to digitise and preserve over 90 years’ strategies for their management and care. worth of club materials, with completion planned by 2014. Walgett District Historical Society, Walgett $3,200 For the Wandering Jew paddlewheel riverboat and Barwon/ City of Mandurah, Mandurah $4,981 Budamurra Aboriginal Corporation, Ulladulla Support Namoi rivers history project, the society built ship and town For the construction of a conservation cradle for the up to $3,600 models to assist with story-telling of the era. The models Wilson Tunnel Hull fishing boat project. This will allow the For the Madjuri Project, this canoe-building workshop feature in a display which also includes photos, stories movement of the boat for proper storage, as well as enable involved experts and elders teaching the traditions to and interpretive information conservation projects to be undertaken with greater ease younger generations in order to preserve them. Funds and safety were granted to cover the costs of expert participation South Australia and assistance in running the workshop. The canoe was a feature at the ANMM conference ‘Nawi – exploring Alexandrina Council – Friends of PS Oscar W, Internships Indigenous Australian watercraft’ in 2012 Goolwa $10,000 For Stage 1 of restoration work on the river barge Dart. Helen Sheedy – Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village Coffs Harbour Regional Museum, Coffs Harbour $10,000 The complete restoration will be staged over a number Two weeks professional development with the ANMM and For the Our Maritime Heritage project, funding was provided of years as part of the conservation plan for the vessel. the Powerhouse Museum in activities such as conservation, for the design and installation of a permanent exhibition registration and storage methods. on maritime history to include contextualisation of objects, Mannum Dock Museum of River History, Mannum $10,000 devising of didactic materials and organisation of fabrication The museum is in Stage 2 of their All Steamed Up project, Myfanwy Thompson – Clyde River and Batemans Bay a rebuild of the internals of a paddle steamer with a Historical Society Inc Holbrook Submarine Museum, Holbrook $7,700 wheelhouse to accompany its static model. The internal One week’s professional development with the Lady For the repair and maintenance of Oberon class submarine re-creation will be interactive and geared towards children, Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson NSW, in activities HMAS Otway, displayed in a municipal park in this country with a display to include history and stories. such as conservation and exhibition design. town 200 km from the sea. South Australian Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide $9,500 Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson In-kind support For the Mementos of Migration project, which will enhance For the development of an action plan for the restoration the museum’s database by linking artefacts from the and repair of the Crest/Ninon. The survey and management museum to ships and passengers in the database. plan was coordinated by an ANMM curator. 102 4 Appendixes 1 MMAPSS grants and internships 4 Appendixes 1 MMAPSS grants and internships 103 Appendix 2 Visitor and Member programs National conference: ‘Nawi – exploring ‘Canoe rock paintings from Torres Strait: design, distribution Day 2: Distribution, design, collections and evidence Film on The Making of the Walba: and symbolism’: Liam M Brady, Monash Indigenous Centre, Theresa Chelepy-Roberts Australia’s Indigenous watercraft’ Session 1: Mapping and modelling Monash University Chair: Lindy Allen, Museum of Victoria Session 5: Canoe futures The museum developed and hosted a two-day conference ‘Significance of Indigenous watercraft in the maritime rock Chair: Alison Page and Keryn Walshe on the watercraft of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Virtual 3D modelling of a Torres Strait canoe’: art assemblage of the Wellington Ranges, Arnhem Land’: peoples, nawi being an Aboriginal word for the bark canoes Ian McNiven, Indigenous Archaeology, Monash University; ‘Cultural revival in the Dunghutti community’: Daryl Wesley, PhD candidate, Australian of Sydney Harbour. The conference brought together Thomas Chandler, Information Technology, Monash Shar Goodwin and Fred Kelly, Saltwater Freshwater National University a wide range of people interested in the conserving University; Michael Lim, Information Technology, Arts Alliance cultural knowledge, history, conservation, construction, Session 3: Canoe communities with round–table discussion Monash University ‘Connecting to culture for the future’: Georgette Rose, interpretation and presentation of Australia’s Indigenous Chair: Tony Brown, Tasmanian Museum and Gallery ‘Distribution and design across the country’: Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Campus watercraft (31/05–01/06/12) ‘Boorun’s canoe collaboration’: Cameron Cope, David Payne, curator, Australian Register Historic Vessels Round-table discussion: where to from here? photographic artist; Steaphan Paton, Gunai artist, Day 1: Canoe voyages, art, stories, communities and ‘Indigenous Australian canoes: questions of chronology’: Gippsland, Vic ‘Exhibitions, publications, networks, support, community construction Stan Florek, Australian Museum projects, works of art’: All conference delegates ‘Gathang canoe project’: Rachel Piercy, Manning Regional Introduction and welcome to participants: Session 2: Islands, reefs and outriggers Art Gallery, Taree; Steve Brereton, Worimi canoe maker, Conference education program Kevin Sumption, director ANMM Chair: Stephen Gapps, Curator, Australian National Forster, NSW Indigenous primary student dance troupe from Matraville Maritime Museum Indigenous welcome to conference: Soldier’s Settlement School performed at the opening event ‘Shoalhaven canoe project’: Steve Russell, chair, Boolarng Alison Page, conference patron ‘Marine fisher-gatherers of the Great Barrier Reef and their and displayed artworks; model canoe workshops held Nangamai Studio; Noel Lonesborough, artist, Boolarng watercraft – a re-evaluation’: Bryce Barker, University at Alexandria Park Community School with models displayed Nawi and National Reconciliation Week: Nangamai Studio; Jim Walliss, collaborator, Boolarng of Southern Queensland at the conference; and speeches at the opening