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
VisitScotland Business Development Programme 2026-27 - Glasgow City
Whether you operate accommodation, attractions, food and drink experiences, activity providers, transport services, or visitor-focused businesses, this is an opportunity to connect with like-minded organisations, share ideas, build local partnerships, and discover new ways to strengthen the visitor experience across your region.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: VisitScotland
- Location: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art
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: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Introduction to Inclusive Tourism Development
This webinar will introduce practical approaches to inclusive tourism development. You will also gain tips on effectively promoting the inclusive work you are already doing.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: Museums Galleries Scotland, VisitScotland
- Location: Online
Knowledge Exchange: Andrew Given from Queer Britain
Andrew Given, Director of Queer Britain, will join us to share their museum journey as well as examples of inclusive and community co-production practises.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: Museums Galleries Scotland, Queer Britain
- Location: Online
Understanding Treasure Trove
This webinar will provide an introduction to Scotland’s Treasure Trove system and the updated Code of Practice
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Call for proposals: Strategy Symposium 2027
Contribute your ideas and help us shape the programme of Scotland's Museums and Galleries Strategy Symposium 2027.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
How to create a museum access page
Clear access information can make a huge difference to visitors planning a museum trip. In partnership with VocalEyes, this session will explore best practice for creating effective museum access pages and making website information more accessible.
- Price: £6 - £42
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
AMA Digital Marketing Day
Join AMA to explore the future of digital marketing at this hybrid event.
- Price: £55 - £195, bursaries available
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Location: London, Online
Lunch & Learn: Developing a strong grants application: deliverability
Join the Museum Galleries Scotland Grants Team to find out how to develop a strong grant application. In this session, Grants Officers will focus on how to communicate and evidence that your project is deliverable.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
ASVA Conference 2026
The Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA) Conference returns to Perth Concert Hall on the 12th November 2026.
- Price: £135 - £155
- Organiser: ASVA
- Location: Perth, Perth Concert Hall
2026 Survey of Scotland’s Museums and Galleries - Results and Insights
Join MGS and DC Research for a webinar exploring the findings of the 2026 Sector Survey.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Writing a Safeguarding Policy That Works
Whether you are writing a new safeguarding policy or reviewing an existing one, the session is designed to support clearer and more confident safeguarding practice.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Styles & Faal Safeguarding
- Location: Online
Roundtable: What's next for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland?
Join MGS staff for a discussion around the future of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Edinburgh, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
Bog Born: the cultural and material history of peatlands in Scotland and beyond
Join NMS for this free one-day symposium to explore the role peatlands have played in our landscapes and communities, and how we tell these stories in our museums.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: National Museums Scotland
- Location: Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland