Maths in Museums

Date: 28th May

Time: 10am – 3pm

Organiser: National Museums Scotland

Venue: Online

Cost: Free 

This free online training event will help you find the maths stories in your museum collections and create maths-focused programming and events for your school and family audiences.

This training is organised in conjunction with Maths Week Scotland, an annual week of activity celebrating maths. This year, Maths Week Scotland will take place from 22 September to 28 September 2025 with the theme Wild Maths, looking at maths in the natural world.

We want museums across Scotland to take part in Maths Week Scotland. You do not need to have a maths, science, technology or engineering collection to take part. Every collection has a maths story somewhere. Join this training and we can help you find it!

The training will include:

• Presentations and exercises led by Tom Briggs, Mathematics Educator and Museum Learning Consultant
• Case studies from museums who have taken part in Maths Week Scotland before
• Opportunities to meet peers from other museums and share learning.

The training will enable you to:

• Gain awareness of maths topics and levels in the Curriculum for Excellence
• Learn how to find the maths stories in your collections and create maths-focused programming and events
• Engage with others in the sector and find out how they’re integrating maths in their programming
• Know how to get involved in Maths Week Scotland and where to go for further information, advice and support.

This training is for people who:

• Work or volunteer in a museum, gallery, library or other type of organisation that holds a public collection in Scotland; and
• Want to gain knowledge, skills and confidence in how to create maths-focused programming and events, particularly for schools and families