Blog
Read our latest blogs from MGS and across the sector, including useful guidance and tips on working and volunteering in Scotland’s museums, project updates, examples of best practice, and much more.
Public transport meets active travel for a great museum adventure
For World Car Free Day MGS Climate Officer Lucy Neville visited the Museum of Scottish Railways by trying out the Inner Forth Bike Bus. In this article, Lucy recounts her journey and highlights the benefits of active travel.
Focus on: education in action
We spoke with four museum sector workers to find out how they're focusing on education by engaging with learners to co-curate displays, develop skills, and explore topics of migration and empire.
Focus on: collaboration in action
Business partnerships, forums, and shared engagement activities: three museum sector workers offer insights into how they’re achieving the collaboration aims of Scotland’s museums and galleries strategy.
Our new social media strategy
Robyn, Rosie, and Joe from our communications team explain our plans to enhance our engagement with the sector through a new social media strategy.
Exploring museums: a week of adventure and inspiration
Lucy Neville, MGS Climate officer and Emily Chandler, MGS Grants Officer write about their trip to explore various museums and exhibitions across Dundee and Montrose.
Focus on: inclusion in action
From creating space for LGBTQ+ voices to handling human remains with respect, this spotlight on museum sector workers showcases how museums and galleries are putting the inclusion aims of Scotland's museums and galleries strategy into practice.
The final frontier: understanding our museums and galleries as meeting places of knowledge
Learn how organisations can co-curate with Gypsy/Traveller communities to share their knowledge through museum spaces.
New repatriation working group seeks sector views
Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen, explains some of the context for setting up a new group which focuses on supporting repatriation in Scotland's museums and galleries.
Focus on: Fair Work in action
Find out how Scotland's museums and galleries are putting Fair Work into practice with this focus on insights and interviews from across the museum sector workforce.