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Museums and Technology Fund
Description
This fund helps collections-based arts and heritage organizations preserve and
present Ontario's diverse and rich heritage. It is supported by the government's $6.5
million commitment, announced in 2009, to help community museums, art galleries,
archives and associated heritage service organizations invest in innovative projects
and partnerships that help them improve public access to their collections through
digital technology.
Its objectives are to:
 Provide Ontarians with access to the diversity and richness the province's heritage
and its history.
 Maximize the role of collections-based arts and heritage organizations in
stimulating cultural tourism, community economic development and municipal
cultural planning; and
 Encourage innovative museum partnerships and models that support education,
life-long learning and new audience development.
See the list of previous Museums and Technology Fund recipients.
The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is transforming its support to the culture
sector. Three existing grant programs will be integrated into a single, streamlined
program to achieve savings and improve client services; it also allows the ministry to
create a more comprehensive program for the sector.
In 2013, the ministry will launch a new cultural grant program with expanded
program criteria which will be open to all cultural sectors.
To accomplish this, the Museums and Technology Fund will end March 31, 2013, at
which time the new program will launch.
These program changes are outlined in the 2012 Ontario Budget.
Deadline
Completed applications with supporting materials must be submitted via the Grants
Ontario web portal no later than August 20, 2012 at 11:59 pm Eastern
Daylight Time.
Eligibility Requirements
Which types of organizations are eligible?
To be eligible, your organization must be an incorporated not-for-profit:
 Museum with a collection of tangible objects;
 Art gallery with a collection of tangible objects;
 Archive with a collection of tangible objects; or
 Heritage service organization with a provincial mandate.
Your organization must:
 Have been in continuous professional operation in Ontario for at least one year
prior to the application deadline;
 Be operational and accessible to the public when you apply; and
 Have distinct objectives, programs and budgets related to heritage, if governed by
other levels of government or by academic or cultural institutions.
Provincial agencies or Provincial Crown corporations are not eligible.
Which types of projects are eligible?
To be eligible, your project must be a new initiative, not an extension of an
organization’s ongoing initiative or an operational activity. It may include, but is not
limited to:
 Development of online exhibitions, including design and production;
 Creation of online curriculum and education modules;
 Introduction of digital collections management systems, including digitization of
collections and purchase and implementation of collections database software;
 Development of membership and audience through the use of technology;
 Implementation of collaborative digital technology and/or social media technology;
 Fundraising through the use of technology; and
 Purchasing technology that helps people with disabilities access programs or
services in the arts and heritage sector.
Program Guidelines and Sample Application
Museums and Technology Fund (MTF) 2012-13 Program & Application Guidelines
Contacts
Cathy Blackbourn
Museum & Heritage Programs Advisor (Northwest, Central West, West)
Tel: (416) 314-4531
Email: catherinelee.blackbourn@ontario.ca
Elka Weinstein
Museum & Heritage Programs Advisor (Northeast, Central East, East)
Tel: (416) 325-4578
Email: elka.weinstein@ontario.ca
Doreen Diiorio
Program Assistant
Tel: (416) 314-7126
Email: doreen.diiorio@ontario.ca
Last updated: July 16, 2012