Museum Development Officers
The team who developed the Sugar Strike display at Mackay Library, standing in front of the completed display 
A Museum Development Officer explaining safe cleaning techniques to participants at a regional workshop. 
Two Museum Development Officers assisting in the installation of an exhibition.
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.
To find out about all about our work, please visit our blog.
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