With regard to core funding, if we are accredited by our government, which is the case of the Stewart Museum, we can be subsidized by the Department of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women. Currently our museum receives approximately $385,000, and we have a budget of $2.5 million. So we have to find money elsewhere.
Our museum has the good fortune of being supported by the Macdonald Stewart Foundation. As for the rest, we have to find the funding that is necessary for our operations elsewhere. Often, everyone gets involved in the search for private funding from philanthropic institutions and we all wind up knocking on the same doors to ask for project funding and operational funding.
I remember a large-scale meeting that took place with the then-minister of culture of Quebec. I had asked her to allow us to have access to grey matter, which is very useful in museums, rather than giving us access to concrete alone.
Often, large museum projects are given funding for construction. However, what we need and what is useful to us is brain power. A lot of new museologists are being trained, and we do not have the means to hire them.