The museum is offering sponsorship packages between $3000 and $18,000, which will lower or eliminate the cost of workshops, floor talks and events such as the popular Up Late evenings for visitors.

They will form part of the Paddock to Plate: A history of food and wine in Orange and district exhibition, which will open in April, 2018.

Orange City Council services policy committee chairman and councillor Ron Gander said the exhibition would have a strong hands-on focus.

“The Orange Regional Museum is a community museum and that means it aims to be as inclusive and accessible as possible,” he said.

“In return sponsors will receive advertising online, in print and via council’s social media network, as well as a raft of other incentives that can be negotiated with the museum.

“Orange Regional Museum is able to offer a wide variety of community exposure prior to and during the exhibition that will help create a mutually beneficial partnership between the sponsor and museum.”

More than 23,000 people have visited the current exhibition Journeys: People, Place, Stories since it opened in November.

Further details on sponsorship options can be found here.