Education & Learning

Guidance to support museums to develop and deliver engaging, play-based cultural experiences that are responsive to young children’s needs and interest for children under five.

Marseum is a free learning resource and lesson plan designed to help young people develop transferable skills, while learning about museums and galleries.

This Blether Together event was organised by Museums Galleries Scotland and Education Scotland and focused on museum's learning resources for schools and communities that have been developed around the Curriculum for Excellence and decolonising the curriculum.

Emily Nelson, Learning and Access Officer at Leeds Museums and Galleries has written this guide on creating loan boxes for schools.

This page contains resources that give examples, advice, and share news and reflections on developing anti-racist practice with young people in museums and galleries. 

We have pulled together a list of online learning resources from various museums and galleries across the UK which help to support learning for young people.

Discover how to place learning and teaching at the heart of your museum with this guide to the education priority area of Scotland's museums and galleries strategy.

Join Sacha Coward and MGS in looking beyond the more usual ways of exploring LGBTQ+ narratives in our museums, and ensuring the stories we tell reflect the communities we live in and amongst.

In this Knowledge Exchange event from Museums Galleries Scotland, speakers discuss increasing connection and engagement of Scottish heritage organisations with STEM education, using their collections, inside and outside of their venues.