Events
Choose from a wide range of in-person and online events, organised by MGS and other sector organisations. Includes workshops, talks, and Knowledge Exchange events.
Employability Advice Surgeries
Are you looking for tips and tricks to boost your employability skills? Join us for a free online session where you will receive personalised advice from a member of our team.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Lunch & Learn: Running a museum café: Balancing Hospitality and Heritage
We are joined by ; Caroline Mathers, Stirling Smith Museum, and Sue McVey, Food for Life Scotland.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Kids in Museums Cuppa Session for museum trustees
A free briefing and discussion session for anyone involved in museum governance. Hear why families and young people are important visitors and key trends in audience behaviour since COVID.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Making your museum accessible to low income families
Do you want to understand your audiences that are experiencing poverty better? Do you also want to understand the barriers faced by those experiencing poverty to accessing cultural spaces? This session will help you develop your current offer for low income families.
- Price: £6 - £42
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Knowledge Exchange: Lessons from Global Majority-led heritage professionals
Lessons from independent Global Majority-led heritage professionals with Chamion Caballero (Mixed Museum) and Elma Glasgow
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Meaningful consultation with young people
Do you want to consult with young people to improve your provision, but aren’t sure how to do this in a meaningful way? This session will support you to engage with young people effectively.
- Price: £6 - £42
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Ticketing Conference 2026
Join the Association for Cultural Enterprise for their annual ticketing conference focusing on smart strategies, creative thinking and essential contacts to help you maximise commercial opportunity.
- Price: £52 - £104
- Organiser: Association for Cultural Enterprises
- Location: Online
AMA Conference 2026: Together
This year’s theme is Together. Your experiences as cultural marketers will be placed front and centre. Together, we’ll learn from each other, grow our skills and inspire new ways of working.
- Price: From £70 + VAT
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Location: Edinburgh
Innovation Panel Discussion
The Museum Futures team are delighted to host our first Innovation Panel Discussion where we have invited three organisations to share their experiences.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Knowledge Exchange: Anti-Racism and Decolonisation with Maya Sharma
Maya Sharma will join us to talk about anti-racism and decolonisation, and explore the opportunities and challenges as museums navigate their role bringing together communities.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Lunch & Learn: Introduction to Sponsorship
We are joined by Alice Samtoy, Corporate Partnerships lead for National Museums Scotland, for a practical introduction to corporate sponsorship and how it can work for your organisation.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Getting to grips with Heat Pumps
Hear from sector colleagues about their years of experience in the world of heat pumps from the well-known air and ground source to experimental river heat exchange systems and even how heat pumps can work on a historic ship.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Introduction to Museum Accreditation
This session is open to any museum in Scotland that is interested in applying for Accreditation as well as those with Working Towards Accreditation status.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online