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These advice guides describe how to acquire, store, care for, display, and dispose of collections.
Knowledge Exchange: Finding your place
In this Knowledge Exchange event, speakers discuss how museums across Scotland are implementing place-based approaches.
Knowledge Exchange: Queering Historic Houses
In this Knowledge Exchange we hear from Indigo Dunphy-Smith from the Georgian House, Edinburgh. Indigo discusses The Georgian House's research into the site’s connection to LGBTQ+ history and explains how house museums can represent more diverse stories.
Knowledge Exchange: The Museum of Ordinary People: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
The Museum of Ordinary People celebrates the ripples that ordinary people leave behind. Hear the story behind the ethos and development of this activist museum in this knowledge exchange event.
Knowledge Exchange: The Museum of Youth Culture
In this knowledge exchange event we hear from The Museum of Youth Culture, a newly emerging museum. They work to tell stories about youth movements, scenes, styles, and sounds across Britain.
The Treasure Trove Process
Learn how Scotland’s Treasure Trove system works, what the 2026 Code of Practice means for museums, and how to apply for finds, deposit objects, support public engagement and arrange loans.
Welcoming external researchers
Researchers may include school children undertaking a project, a scholar writing a monograph, or researchers specifically contracted by your museum.