The National Museum of Australia researches, collections, preserves and exhibits historical material of the Australian nation.
Established in 1980, the Museum is a publicly funded institution governed as a statutory authority in the Australian Government's Arts portfolio. The Museum’s building on Acton Peninsula, Canberra opened in March 2001.
The Museum has a comprehensive suite of plans and policies. These are monitored and reviewed at regular intervals and made publicly available on the Museum’s website.
Policies
The National Museum of Australia's comprehensive suite of public policies is listed below. As stated in our IPS agency plan, the Museum is progressively converting policies from PDF into HTML as they are reviewed. However, you may request an early conversion at feedback@nma.gov.au
- Acceptance of gifts and benefits policy
- Accountable disposal policy
- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Human Remains management and repatriation policy
- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secret/sacred, sensitive and private material policy
- Audience development policy
- Collection care and preservation policy
- Collections development policy
- Collection deaccessioning and disposal policy
- Collections – return of cultural objects policy
- Digital preservation and digitisation policy
- Diversity and inclusion policy
- Family and domestic violence policy
- Environmental management policy
- First Nations cultural rights and engagement policy
- Indigenous Australian Art Charter of Principles for Publicly Funded Collection Institutions
- Intellectual property policy
- International and domestic engagements policy
- Interpretation policy
- Investment policy
- Loans policy
- Non-Australian indigenous human remains policy
- Normal Administrative Practice (NAP) policy
- Privacy policy
- Publishing policy
- Radiation safety policy
- Reasonable adjustment policy
- Research and scholarship policy
- Research Library collection development policy
- Smoking at the Museum policy
- Social media policy
- Unsatisfactory attendance and non-performance of duties policy
- Volunteers policy
- Working with children and young people policy
- Work Health and Safety policy
- Assistance animal and disability aid guidelines and procedures
- Code of Conduct guidelines and procedures
- Complaints handling procedures
- Notifiable breach response procedures
- Public interest disclosure procedures
- Preventing bullying and harassment guidelines
- Reasonable adjustment procedure
- Ticket refund and exchange
- Agency file lists
- Annual reports
- Australian Public Service Employee Census
- Executive and highly paid staff remuneration
- Gifts and benefits register
- Privacy Impact Assessment Register
- Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme
- Review of exhibitions and programs (2003)
- Summary report of review into Rover Thomas acquisition (2022)
The National Museum of Australia welcomes your feedback, whether it is formal or informal, positive or negative.
Information including your FOI rights, fees and charges, how to make a request, complaints and the Museum's FOI disclosure log.
Information about procurement and contracts at the National Museum of Australia, along with procurement-related complaints.
The National Museum is committed to the highest standards of ethical and accountable conduct. Public officials who suspect wrongdoing within the Commonwealth public sector can raise their concerns under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (PID Act).
All Australian Government agencies, Commonwealth companies and public authorities have responsibilities under the PID Act to investigate suspected wrongdoing and take appropriate action.
Officials can make allegations about ‘disclosable conduct’, which includes conduct that:
- is illegal or corrupt
- results in a wastage of money or property
- results in unreasonable danger or risk to health and safety
- results in danger, or an increased risk of danger, to the environment.
The PID Act offers protection to disclosers (‘whistleblowers’) from reprisal action, protecting them from any detrimental action as a result of making a disclosure. A disclosure can be made to an authorised officer of the Museum if the PID relates to the Museum or the discloser belongs, or last belonged to, the Museum.
See Contact us for a list of the Museum’s authorised officers.
See the Museum's Public interest disclosure procedures for further information.
The National Museum of Australia (Museum) is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) and is required to comply with the Information Publication Scheme (IPS) requirements.
The agency plan describes how the Museum proposes to do this, as required by s 8(1) of the FOI Act.
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