Donate to the Museum

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.

Ways to give

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

Donate online
Phone: 07 3365 5063
Email: med.advancement@uq.edu.au
Mail 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. Please feel free to phone us on 07 3365 5063, or email med.advancement@uq.edu.au.

Donate an object

The Marks-Hirschfeld collection has been built on the generosity of donors. The museum welcomes 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 forward the completed donation proposal form to the curator at c.strelan@uq.edu.au, or mail the form to:

Ms Charla Strelan
Curator
Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History
Faculty of Medicine
The University of Queensland
288 Herston Rd
Herston, Qld 4006 Australia

A museum representative will contact you to discuss your proposal.

The museum is unable to 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.

How your gift helps

$20 could purchase silverfish traps for one bookcase, protecting the valuable texts in our collection.
$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.