Past recipients of MMAPSS funding
The museum’s grants program is the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme (MMAPSS). It offers funding to regional museums and organisations to help preserve or display objects of national and historical maritime significance.
Since 1995, the scheme has provided over $2.61 million in support of over 565 projects and more than 93 museological training opportunities to organisations across Australia.
Wondering whether you might be eligible? Follow the link below for more information.
2025 MMAPSS Recipients
Exterior of the Keeping Place/cultural centre at Jigamy, where the construction of a traditional Kuridja (bark canoe) will be documented
Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Captain John Craig’s sextant, which will be conserved and treated to ensure its longevity.
Shoalhaven Historical Society.
HMAS Gladstone with Australian Navy Cadets aboard.
Gladstone Maritime History Society.
A painting of vessels in Sydney Heads, from an album of artworks produced by Owen Stanley during his surveying voyages aboard HMS Britomart.
The Royal Society of Tasmania.
Display gallery at the Bass and Flinders Maritime Museum, where the historic wooden boat Mirage will be installed
Bass and Flinders Maritime Museum
Little Dirk at the Carnarvon Heritage Precinct.
Carnarvon Heritage Group.
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