Museum Development Officers

Vital support from the Queensland Museum for your community collections.

Do you have a story to tell? Do you need a grant, advice or training?

You need a Museum Development Officer.

Wherever you are in regional Queensland, there is a Museum Development Officer (MDO) available to help you. Together we care for Queensland’s heritage collections.

We provide some services for free and work with you on a fee-for service basis on a range of projects.

Projects include:

  • Strategic planning
  • Policy development
  • Collection management
  • Significance and preservation assessments
  • Preservation
  • Exhibition/display development
  • Volunteer policy and procedures
  • Public programs
  • Grant writing
  • Workshops

Community Collections include:

  • Community museums
  • Historical societies
  • Local history libraries
  • Collecting galleries
  • Archives
  • Indigenous Keeping Places
  • Multicultural groups

Locate your nearest Museum Development Officer

Centre MDO Phone Email
Cairns Dr Jo Wills 4032 4051 joanna.wills@qm.qld.gov.au
Townsville Ewen McPhee 4726 0619 ewen.mcphee@qm.qld.gov.au
Rockhampton Bronwyn Roper 4936 8086 bronwyn.roper@qm.qld.gov.au
Toowoomba Lydia Egunnike 4659 4921 lydia.egunnike@qm.qld.gov.au
Toowoomba Vicki Warden
(Coordinator)		 4659 4905

vicki.warden@qm.qld.gov.au

Ipswich Helen Pithie 3432 5145

helen.pithie@qm.qld.gov.au

Map of Queensland showing the five regional divisions for the Museum Development Officers.

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