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
Lunch & Learn: Developing a strong grants application: impact
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 develop a strong grant application.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
- Location: Online
Taking the museum home: Creating a family friendly museum shop
Nearly two thirds of families said that visiting a museum shop was an important part of a visit. Join retail consultant Polly Redman for practical tips on stock selection, merchandising and creating a retail offer that works for family visitors.
- Price: £6 - £42
- Organiser: Kids in Museums
- Location: Online
History in Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time
People with physical impairments lived, worked, and participated in communities throughout premodern Europe, yet their experiences remain absent from history. This hybrid talk will explore case studies, and introduce the Visible Disabilities in Premodern Europe project.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- Location: Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
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
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