Roundtable: What's next for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland?
Event information
Date: 17th November 2026
Time: 10am – 4pm
Organiser: MGS
Location: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AP
Cost: Free
Intangible Cultural Heritage – or Living Heritage – in Scotland is vibrant and growing in visibility. The NLHF-supported ‘Protection Through Connection: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland’ project – managed by the ICH Scotland Partnership – has piloted an approach to safeguarding ICH at community level.
This roundtable event seeks to bring practitioners and supporters of ICH in Scotland together to build connections and collaborative opportunities, and to address the following questions:
- How has ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention impacted ICH in Scotland thus far?
- How effective is the Protection Through Connection model?
- Where should support for ICH be focussed?
- What support exists presently?
Protection Through Connection: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland’ is made possible thanks to the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players. The project is managed by the ICH Scotland Partnership, which consists of Museums Galleries Scotland, TRACS (Traditional Art & Culture Scotland), Historic Environment Scotland, and Creative Scotland.