Supporting Scotland's Museums and Galleries

Discover the wide range of opportunities and support available to the sector to help deliver the new strategy for Scotland’s museums and galleries.

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A large gallery with a curved ceiling and wide first-floor balcony. A two-storey wooden structure stands in the middle of the gallery. The structure has an entrance displaying the text "The Stone of Destiny".

A child with medium-light skin and long straight brown hair sits next to a display case and writes on a clipboard.

An adult with light skin and tied-back wavy red hair and an adult with light skin and medium length dark brown hair sit on stone steps in a garden. A child with light skin and short brown hair jumps between them.

Two adults wearing sunglasses and baseball caps - one with light skin and a brown beard, and one with light skin and long straight brown hair - pose for a selfie on the deck on a sailing ship.

Two adults are sitting at a table and laughing together. The adult on the left has medium skin tone and dark hair which is tied up. The adult on the right is an older person with short white hair and light skin tone.

Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the national development body for Scotland’s museum sector. We support 455 museums and galleries through strategic investment, advice, workforce development, and advocacy.

455

Museums and Galleries

supported by us in Scotland

257

Accredited Museums

across Scotland meet the UK Museum Accreditation Standard

£1.7 million

In MGS Grants Funding

awarded to museums and galleries in 2024/25

72

MGS Learning Opportunities

provided to the sector in 2024/25

Resilience

Museum Futures

Museum Futures is a pioneering programme of funding and support which seeks to accelerate collaboration and innovation and embed organisational sustainability across the museum sector.

This programme, which is backed by £4 million of Scottish Government funding, was developed in partnership with the Scottish Government, Museums Galleries Scotland, and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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