Events
Choose from a wide range of in-person and online events, organised by MGS and other sector organisations. Includes workshops, talks, and Knowledge Exchange events.
Accreditation Mentor Gathering
An opportunity for Accreditation Mentors across Scotland to get together and ask questions with the MGS Accreditation team and peers.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Let’s Evaluate! | A Guide to Evaluation and Monitoring
This comprehensive course explains what outcomes and indicators are and how they can help you to explain the difference your work makes. It will give you clarity on the building blocks of evaluation and includes lots of time for working on your own projects.
- Price: £240 + VAT for C&BS members | £380 + VAT for non-members
- Organiser: Culture & Business Scotland
- Location: Online
Bluesky 101 for the Heritage Sector | May SHSMG Event
For the Scottish Heritage Social Media Group’s May event, we’ll be hearing from Justin Parke, Industrial History Curator at North Lanarkshire Council. Justin is one of the contributors to the NorthLan Heritage Bluesky account, which already has over 4,000 followers.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Scottish Heritage Social Media Group
- Location: Online
Scotland & Medicine Conference 2025: From Artefacts to Insights: Unpacking
Scotland and Medicine's 2025 conference will explore the dual dimensions of medical collections: the tangible objects that form the foundation of museum practice.
- Price: From £10
- Organiser: Scotland & Medicine
- Location: Edinburgh
Employability Advice Surgeries
Are you looking for tips and tricks to boost your employability skills? Join us for a free online session where you will receive personalised advice from a member of our team.
- Price: Free
- Location: Online
Sponsorship Matters | Managing Ethics and Risk
This session, led by sponsorship expert Alice Samtoy, provides support to fundraisers with concerns about ethics, due diligence and risk management around sponsorship.
- Price: £85 + VAT for C&BS members - £125 + VAT for non-members
- Organiser: Culture & Business Scotland
- Location: Edinburgh
Gift Aid vs VAT
In this Sector Insight, Culture and Business Scotland will explain how Gift aid and VAT rules apply to cultural bodies, dispel common misunderstandings, and highlight ways to achieve optimum results for both taxes.
- Price: Free for C&BS members - £35 + VAT
- Organiser: Culture & Business Scotland
Essentials of AI for Marketing
This brand-new online course will explore the basics of using AI, from creating prompts to using AI for image generation or data analytics.
- Price: From £200 + VAT
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Location: Online
DeCoGLAM Community of Practice: Launch Event
Join DeCoGLAM at The Mitchell Library for a gathering of like-minded individuals passionate about Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. This in-person event will be an opportunity to network, share ideas, and plan how this new community can support the efforts of all stakeholders interested in decolonisation.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: DeCoGLAM
- Location: Glasgow
The Cold War in Museums
In this online event, National Museums Scotland and partners will introduce 'The Cold War in Museums toolkit' and share experiences on collecting, interpreting and displaying Cold War history.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: National Museums Scotland
- Location: Online
SMF Conference 2025: Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future
How can heritage thrive in a complex world? Join Scottish Museums Federation for expert-led sessions on finances, audiences, and resilience at their annual conference.
- Price: From £10
- Organiser: Scottish Museums Federation
- Location: Dundee
Fundraising Matters | Individual Giving Essentials
This course explores the key role individual giving can have within your fundraising strategy and how to create a donor-centric giving programme.
- Price: £120 + VAT for C&BS members - £190 + VAT
- Organiser: Culture & Business Scotland
- Location: Edinburgh
How to Queer Your Historic House: Toolkit Launch
This session offers tools to explore broader social and cultural contexts, drawing meaningful links between historic spaces, collections and queer experiences of the past to tell a more complete story of a historic house.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Queer Heritage and Collections Network
- Location: Online
MHH Conference: Air Faire
A workforce summit for those working in rural heritage, exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the sector today. There will be sessions on fundraising, inclusion, digital volunteering, wellbeing, working with young people and more.
- Price: From £35
- Organiser: Museums and Heritage Highland
- Location: Wasps Inverness Creative Academy
Generative AI, Digital Heritage, Racialised Gender, Race and Ethnicity
Workshop on Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration of the Intersections of Racialized Gender, Race and Ethnicity and their Impact on Digital Heritage.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Milena Dobreva
- Location: Glasgow