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
Ticketing Conference 2026
Join the Association for Cultural Enterprise for their annual ticketing conference focusing on smart strategies, creative thinking and essential contacts to help you maximise commercial opportunity.
- Price: £52 - £104
- Organiser: Association for Cultural Enterprises
- Location: Online
AMA Conference 2026: Together
This year’s theme is Together. Your experiences as cultural marketers will be placed front and centre. Together, we’ll learn from each other, grow our skills and inspire new ways of working.
- Price: From £70 + VAT
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Location: Edinburgh
Innovation Panel: Building Financial Sustainability
Join us for a discussion with three museum workers whose innovative approaches to energy, technology, and visitor experience have transformed the financial sustainability of their organisations.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Knowledge Exchange: Anti-Racism and Decolonisation with Maya Sharma
Maya Sharma will join us to talk about anti-racism and decolonisation, and explore the opportunities and challenges as museums navigate their role bringing together communities.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Lunch & Learn: Introduction to Sponsorship
We are joined by Alice Samtoy, Corporate Partnerships lead for National Museums Scotland, for a practical introduction to corporate sponsorship and how it can work for your organisation.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
GEM Scotland Museum Learning Development Day
Join GEM Scotland for an engaging day of professional learning, connection and inspiration across the museums and heritage sector.
- Price: £5 - £10
- Organiser: GEM Scotland
- Location: Glasgow
Developing My Leadership 2026
Become a more self-aware and confident leader through this six session online course from MGS and Social Enterprise Academy.
- Price: £250 to £450
- Organiser: Social Enterprise Academy
- Location: Online
Playable Heritage: Creating a collaborative framework for collecting video game culture
This conference will explore challenges and opportunities for collecting video game culture across the UK.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: National Library of Scotland, National Museums Scotland, National Videogame Museum, Ukie (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment)
- Location: National Museum of Scotland
Charity Finance Essentials
Museums Galleries Scotland has partnered with SCVO to deliver a free finance training session for trustees, board members, and senior leaders as part the Museum Futures programme.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Getting to grips with Heat Pumps
Hear from sector colleagues about their years of experience in the world of heat pumps from the well-known air and ground source to experimental river heat exchange systems and even how heat pumps can work on a historic ship.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Introduction to Museum Accreditation
This session is open to any museum in Scotland that is interested in applying for Accreditation as well as those with Working Towards Accreditation status.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Collections Management Cohort
Museums Galleries Scotland has partnered with Collections Trust to deliver a series of workshops and peer support on core collections management issues. This opportunity is open to a cohort of six museums, each with two members of the workforce in attendance.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: Collections Trust, Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online