Donate

Our generous philanthropic supporters are vital to the work of the museum, and we welcome donations in support of preservation and archival programs, exhibitions and educational activities.

Your gift will play a vital role in preserving medical history and help continue building a significant collection to deliver inspiring and engaging learning opportunities to our students, researchers and the community.

You may like to give a financial donation, or donate an object.

Ways to give

All gifts over $2 are tax deductible, and go directly to the Museum.

Give online

Donate online

Donations by mail, recurring donations and bequests

Mail: Send a cheque (made out to The University of Queensland) to:

UQ Advancement
Level 7, JD Story Building,
Brisbane, Queensland 4072.

Please include a note indicating your gift is in support of the Marks-Hirschfeld Museum.

If you would like to discuss making a donation for a specific purpose, opportunities for regular giving or leaving a bequest, we would love to hear from you.

Phone: 07 3365 5063

Email: med.advancement@uq.edu.au

How your gift helps

$50 could purchase conservation and cleaning materials for the collection’s wooden surgical instrument boxes, many of which date from the late 1800s.
$100 could purchase archival mylar sleeves for our collection of Trephine magazines. Many editions are extremely rare and as a collection they reflect an important part of Faculty history.
$500 could purchase equipment to digitise our collection of vinyl records, which capture unique medical lectures from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
$1500 could contribute to the refurbishment of historic exhibition cases of the Mayne Medical building, including improved locks and environmental buffers for protecting collection objects on display.
$3000 could purchase an interactive AV display for visitors, enabling the Museum to show historic and significant films from the collection, such as the ground-breaking study 'A 2-year-old goes to hospital'. 
$100,000 or more could contribute to new industry-standard storage facilities for the collection, ensuring its preservation for generations to come.

Donate an object

Our collection has been built on the generosity of donors. We welcome donations of objects, photographs and documents of significance to Queensland’s medical history.

If you have an object that you would like to donate to the museum, please begin by completing a donation proposal form including:

physical description of the object, including type, age, size, and condition
as much historical information about the object as possible including any known provenance, dates, associated people, places and events
a photograph of the object
supporting evidence, if available (e.g. associated documentation, receipts, personal photographs, oral history).

Please send the completed donation proposal form to medmuseum@uq.edu.au or mail the form to:

The Curator
Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History
The University of Queensland
288 Herston Rd
Herston, Qld 4006 Australia

A museum representative will contact you to discuss your proposal.

We cannot accept or hold any object until a decision is made to accept a donation.

Please do not bring or send objects to the museum without prior agreement.