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.
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
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Intangible Cultural Heritage – Community Support Hub Inscription Surgeries
A chance to discuss the process for listing living heritage practices on the inventory, ask questions, and talk about any challenges you’re facing around the ICH listing process.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Climate Action Accelerator Programme
Delivered by VisitScotland, in partnership with Climate Springboard at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI), this innovative programme aims to accelerate climate action within tourism and events businesses.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, VisitScotland
- Location: Online
Makaton awareness: Taster session for museums
Learn more about Makaton and how it may be used in different settings to support language development and communication and learn approximately 30 useful everyday signs and symbols, alongside 12 more words which have been tailored for museum settings.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Lunch & Learn: Collaborate with business, with C&B Scotland Fund
Culture & Business Scotland explain how to secure an investment for your organisation if you're working in collaboration with a business.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
MGS Marketing Support Surgeries
Join members of the MGS Marketing Team for free marketing support surgeries. They’re a chance to discuss marketing plans for the season ahead, ask questions, and talk about any challenges you’re facing around marketing and PR.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Just Enterprise
- Location: Online
Make Your Mark Inclusive Volunteering Conference 2026
Make Your Mark is a campaign to increase the number and diversity of heritage volunteers in Scotland. This conference will explore how co-creation and collaboration are transforming volunteering, both within the heritage sector and beyond.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Make Your Mark
- Location: Edinburgh, Online
Young people’s social justice projects: Afternoon Cuppa Session
Join Kids in Museums for an informal virtual session to hear inspiring case studies from the three organisations who were shortlisted for the Best Museum Youth Project: Social Justice category, as part of the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award 2025.
- Price: Free (booking essential)
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Adaptation & Climate Resilience in the Tourism Sector
Delivered by VisitScotland, this webinar will feature industry speakers and experts in climate adaptation, concluding with a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges the sector faces, as well as the benefits that adaptation can bring to your business.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: VisitScotland
- Location: Online
Cultural Enterprises Conference & Trade Show
Hear from a range of speakers and gain insights on how to maximise your cultural enterprise's income.
- Price: £265-£820
- Organiser: Association for Cultural Enterprises
- Location: Birmingham, The International Convention Centre
Lunch & Learn session: Museums and Galleries Technician Modern Apprenticeship
In this session, you will learn about the Museums and Galleries Technician Modern Apprenticeship.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Planning and running family workshops
Find out more about how to plan and facilitate family museum workshops, so they are suitable for a range of ages.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
Unlocking museum audience insights: Making the most of data
How to use research, consultation and evaluation to better understand users and non-users, and what to do with this data.
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Living Heritage National Inventory – information session 2
Information session for groups interested in submitting an example of Living Heritage in Scotland for inscription on the National Inventory
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
How To Day - Content That Works
Explore how to create adaptable content that has impact across different platforms, for all our audiences using practical tools and skills that you can apply right away.
- Price: £70 to £175
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Location: Online