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  • Last updated: January 23rd 2023

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Here you will find our latest news stories, as well as contact details for our marketing team if you have a media enquiry.

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Climate Beacons to link creativity and climate change across Scotland for COP26
More than 30 environmental, cultural and heritage organisations are coming together in regions across Scotland to inspire public engagement and positive action in the run up to and beyond the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, taking place in Glasgow this November.
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Reopening Survey Results
Many of Scotland’s museums will be open and ready to welcome visitors this summer, the development body Museums Galleries Scotland has said after a survey of the sector found only a tiny number of respondents did not expect to reopen this year.
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Civic And University Museums Get £800k Funding Boost
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) has confirmed funding awards worth £800,000 in the latest COVID-19 support for museums and galleries.
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Business Training And Support Awarded To 40 Heritage Organisations Across Scotland
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS), and greenspace scotland welcome the 40 organisations who will participate in the 18-month NLHF funded Business Support Programme, ‘Surviving to Thriving’ (StT).
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MGS Appoints Project Manager: Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) welcomes Sheila Asante as Project Manager for Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums: Addressing Our Colonial Legacy, a project to explore how the history of Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire, colonialism, and transatlantic slavery, can be told by Scotland’s museums.
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High Demand for Museum Fund Underlines Scale of Sector Need
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) has received applications totalling £10.7 million to the £4 million Recovery and Resilience Fund, established to support museums through the pandemic.
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Sir Geoff Palmer, OBE, To Chair Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums Steering Group
Today Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) welcomes Sir Geoff Palmer, OBE, as chair of a new independent steering group that will recommend how Scotland’s existing and future museum collections can better recognise and represent a more accurate portrayal of Scotland’s colonial and slavery history.
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Museums Galleries Scotland To Coordinate Consultation On Scotland’s Colonial And Slavery History In Museum Collections
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) welcomes the announcement in the Programme for Government that the Scottish Government will sponsor an independent expert group to recommend how Scotland’s existing and future museum collections can better recognise and represent a more accurate portrayal of Scotland’s colonial and slavery history.
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Lucy Casot (CEO) gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Culture Committee on the impact of the pandemic
Covid-19 is having an enormous impact on the cultural sector. Our Chief Executive Lucy Casot was today (27th August) invited to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Culture Committee on the impact of the pandemic.