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A MMAPSS milestone 25 years of supporting Australia’s maritime heritage
Criss-crossing the country, all along our coastlines, rivers and inland waterways and around our islands, precious stories are being told about Australia, Australians and their relationship with the sea. Sharon Babbage celebrates the telling of these stories, the organisations that tell them, and their relationship to the museum.
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Signals 133 Summer 2020–21
THE STORIES AND OBJECTS that are held and cared for by cultural institutions, historical societies and community groups around the country are known as the National Distributed Collection. This collection helps us as a nation understand the role of the oceans, seas and rivers in shaping our lives, and one mission of the Australian National Maritime Museum is to support, explore, develop, promote and conserve it. One long-running and concrete way in which this aim has been realised is through the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme (MMAPSS), an annual grants and internships program funded by the Australian Government through the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.
