About

The Foundation’s objective is to assist in the maintenance, development and improvement of the collections of QVMAG and in particular to attract and encourage donations, gifts, bequests, endowments, trusts and other forms of financial assistance to, and for the benefit of, QVMAG.  

It must be remembered that QVMAG is a significant cultural asset that is publicly owned through the City of Launceston. Currently, QVMAG is funded by the rate-payers of Launceston with support from the Tasmanian Government. It holds the most important collection of cultural material in regional Australia, having received all its treasures through public involvement.  

To maintain its place in the cultural space it must continue to nurture and grow the collections. The Foundation is, almost exclusively, the only means to nurture the Fine and Decorative Arts collections as the resources available from local and state governments are increasingly limited. It is therefore up to those among us who feel civically or morally obliged to add their valuable support, by meeting the Foundation’s objective as described above.  

The Foundation is managed by an elected Management Committee of up to twelve members, appointed for a term of one year but able to be re-elected under the rules set out in our member constitution.