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Archives win $67m in urgent funding

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Original article by Troy Bramston
The Australian – Page: 3 : 1-Jul-21

The federal government has approved a $67.7m increase in funding for the National Archives of Australia to preserve and digitise its most at-risk records, including documents, photos, maps and film recordings. This had been recommended by former senior public servant David Tune, although the government will provide the additional funding over four years rather than seven. A group of prominent Australians recently signed an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging the government to increase the National Archives’ funding.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Galleries grapple with climate change and unprecedented closures

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Original article by Broede Carmody
The Age – Page: Online : 7-Jan-20

Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia will re-open on 7 January, after smoke from the bushfires forced its closure two days earlier. NGA director Nick Mitzevich says the move was necessary to protect staff, visitors and the art museum’s collections, noting that airborne particles from the bushfires could potentially cause damage to artworks such as paintings over many years. Mitzevich says the loss of revenue due to the two-day closure will be ‘material’, but he adds that this is insignificant compared with the scale of the bushfire disaster.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

Priceless artworks in the bush firing line

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Original article by Matthew Westwood
The Australian – Page: 19 : 6-Jan-20

Some of the major artworks at the historic Bundanon property and art centre near Nowra in New South Wales have been moved to a safer location due to the bushfire threat. The Bundanon Trust has indicated that more artworks may be moved after the Currowan bushfire came close to the property, which was gifted to the nation by artist Arthur Boyd and his wife in 1993. Bundanon’s $43m art collection include works by Boyd, Sidney Nolan and Charles Blackman. Meanwhile, poor air quality due to smoke from bushfires prompted the closure of art museums in Canberra on 5 January.

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BUNDANON TRUST, NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (AUSTRALIA), MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY

Western Australia’s French connection explored as 200-year-old artefacts show Napoleon’s plans

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Original article by Briana Shepherd
abc.net.au – Page: Online : 13-Sep-18

Western Australia’s Maritime Museum is currently displaying artefacts from two French expeditions in the early part of the 19th century. The first, which was led by Nicolas Baudin and commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, reached WA in 1801. It was labelled a "voyage of scientific discovery", but Diana Jones, the museum’s executive director of collections and research, suggests that there was a "colonial aspect" to the expedition. Dr Michael McCarthy, the museum’s curator of maritime archaeology, says many people are unaware that the French claimed WA in 1772, just two years after James Cook claimed New South Wales for the British.

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MARITIME MUSEUM OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2017

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 30-Jun-17

The 45th ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the University of Melbourne’s Wilson Hall from 7-9 July 2017. The event is part of the annual Melbourne Rare Book Week, and a range of early printed books, maps, prints, literature, art, militaria and other items will be exhibited and offered for sale by leading Australian and international antiquarian booksellers. Entry to the Melbourne Rare Book Fair is free.

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MELBOURNE RARE BOOK FAIR, AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Melbourne Rare Book Week: For the love of books

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 28-Jun-17

The annual Melbourne Rare Book Week will be held from 30 June to 9 July 2017, and features more than 60 free events at libraries, literary societies, historical societies and bookshops throughout Melbourne. Events include lectures, seminars, tours, panel discussions and reading sessions, as well as the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, which will be held at the University of Melbourne’s Wilson Hall from 7-9 July. Admission to all events is free.

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MELBOURNE RARE BOOK WEEK

Vincent show gets face lift

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Original article by Simon Plant
Herald Sun – Page: 3 : 13-Apr-17

The National Gallery of Victoria has confirmed that it has secured a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait for its upcoming "Van Gogh and the Seasons" exhibition. The self-portrait, which was painted in 1887, is being loaned to the NGV by the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The exhibition, which is the latest in the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, will feature almost 50 paintings by Van Gogh. The exhibition opens in late April 2017.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MUSEE D’ORSAY, VAN GOGH MUSEUM, NATIONAL GALLERY (GREAT BRITAIN)

Qantas gives $2.75 million to secure Aussie artists exposure at Tate

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Original article by Primrose Riordan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 29-Sep-15

The Qantas Foundation has donated $A2.75 million to London’s Tate and Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The donation will be used by the two institutions to jointly buy works by Australian artists. The acquired works will be shown at the MCA in 2016, and later at the Tate in London.

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QANTAS FOUNDATION, TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (NEW SOUTH WALES)

Gandels donate $A1m to Museum Victoria for new children’s gallery

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Original article by Patrick Durkin
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 4-Aug-15

Gandel Philanthropy, a charity run by billionaires John and Pauline Gandel, has donated $A1 million to Museum Victoria. They have also made other significant donations in recent years. Recipients included the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. The Gandels made their fortune by investing in shopping centres.

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GANDEL PHILANTHROPY, MUSEUM VICTORIA, NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL

Economist’s $8m parting gift to gallery

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Original article by Timna Jacks
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 19-Mar-15

The late Alan Boxer has bequeathed a collection of paintings by Australian modernists to the National Gallery of Australia. The 19 artworks include paintings by Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley and Arthur Boyd, and are estimated to be collectively worth $A8m. Boxer, who died in 2014, worked as the Federal Treasury from 1975 to 1986, and began collecting artworks in the 1950

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY