The fate of the financially-embattled museum will be decided at the next Ballarat City Council meeting.

It comes after a feasibility study investigated a series of changes for the site.

Councillors were presented with options, including shutting the centre down completely, continuing to run it in its current state or a financial and marketing overhaul of the facility. 

In a speech made in Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, Ms King, who is Federal Member for Ballarat, said if the council voted to abandon its commitment to MADE, she would regard it as a “breach of faith”.

“After having lobbied me, the council secured funding under a Labor Government of $5 million and a further $5 million from state,” she said. 

“If they vote to abandon their commitment to MADE, it makes it very hard to treat any funding requests by the city seriously.”

Ms King said there were many projects competing for funding in 2013 including the Ballarat soccer facility, but council came to the decision that the museum was the priority for the city.

She said while she supported the bid, she made it clear she did not want to hear the council no longer wanted to commit funding to the centre in the future. 

“Sadly, the future of MADE is under a cloud with the Ballarat City Council, the organisation which came to me seeking funds, having commissioned a feasibility study that has not been made public,” Ms King said in her speech. 

“I understand options that have been raised for the centre’s future range from closing completely to significant funding cuts.

“I want to make it very clear that if Ballarat City Council votes to cut MADE’s funding, or worse, to slowly withdraw MADE’s funding altogether, I will campaign against it.

“There will be many others across our community and beyond who will do likewise.”

The museum appointed marketing specialist Rebecca MacFarling as chief executive in October, following the resignation of acting CEO Sarah Masters.