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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.

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The Power to Act: Sharing Climate Pledges
How can museums and galleries amplify the voice of climate action in their communities? Get inspired to make a difference by reading these pledges shared by museum workers at a recent MGS climate action workshop.
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Focus On: Financial Resilience
This guide is full of resources to help you develop the financial resilience of your museum or gallery. It includes advice on fundraising, retail, grants, and training.
A screengrab of a website. Large, black words saying “Supporting Scotland’s Museums and Galleries” and two purple, square buttons sit above a banner of five images of different orientation and size. The images show different views of inside and outside different museums
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Can you build values and inclusion into a website redevelopment?
Our new website was created to help launch Scotland’s Museums and Galleries Strategy. But, did you know we built inclusion and anti-racism into all stages of the development? This blog shares how we did it and has helpful tips to make your own website more inclusive. 
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Focus On: Skills & Confidence
Explore the resources in this guide to find out how you can build the skills and confidence of the workforce at your museum or gallery.
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An Inclusive Approach to Marketing
Louise Storie, MGS Marketing and Communications Manager, shares her team's ongoing journey to inclusive marketing, along with valuable insights gained.
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Resources for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month
Did you know that June is Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month? We've collated some resources and event prompts to help museums and galleries commemorate this annual event.
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Climate work in action
Alex Smith, former Climate Officer at MGS, wrote about his trip to see some of the work museums in Scotland are undertaking in order to increase their sustainability and tackle the climate crises.
An edited text panel. Text "Surviving and Thriving" has a red line through it and is replaced with "Enslaving and Profiteering". Underneath is text "Copy of panel text in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow stories gallery. This portrait shows John Glassford of Dougalston," Red text begins "one of the most prominent Tobacco Lords in Glasgow." A red line is through the text "with his thrid wife Lady Margaret Mackenzie, and some of his children. Glassford was able to build a fortune from his American tobacco trade and had three houses around Glasgow." Text in red replaces it with "Glassford's name is synonymous with Glasgow link to the slave trade, he immensely profited from slaved labour and was also a slave owner himself. To the left of the portrait you can see the silhouette of a enslaved child, his name, age and origin is unknown." Black text " Today this painting hangs in the Peoples Palace Museum."
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Decolonising museums by exhibiting accountability: a changemakers’ concept
This blog by Kulsum Shabbir is the second in a set of three commissioned blogs from the Our Shared Cultural Heritage Changemakers program to share their reflections in the light of the Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums recommendations.
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Introduction to Fair Work: Respect
This blog series by Lizzy and Frankie introduces Fair Work. This refers to all aspects of working for your organisation, from creating a job spec and developing a positive organisational culture to the day-to-day experience of working and progressing in your organisation. In this blog we explain 'respect'.