Search for Fair Work jobs, volunteering, and tender opportunities based in museums, galleries and heritage organisations across Scotland.

This case study is about working with schools and visitors to make links between the climate crisis and the industrial history of a community.

We deliver both formal and vocational, skills-based courses through our MGS Skills Academy. These are facilitated by MGS and partner organisations.

Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the national development body for Scotland's museum sector. We support 455 museums and galleries through strategic investment, advice, workforce development, and advocacy.

November 27th is Museum Shop Sunday! Museum shops are great places to discover an exciting range of unique and locally-sourced gifts – and vital sources of income for museums and galleries across Scotland. To celebrate Museum Shop Sunday, we’ve selected just some of the many museums and galleries that go the extra mile to stock local, ethical, and bespoke gifts.

In September and October 2022, Kids in Museums worked with SEND in Museums Consultant Sam Bowen to deliver two sessions for museums in Scotland on Welcoming SEND families to your museum.

This blog series by Lizzy and Frankie introduces Fair Work. This refers to all aspects of working for your organisation, from creating a job spec and developing a positive organisational culture to the day-to-day experience of working and progressing in your organisation. In this blog we explain 'opportunity'.

The development of the Delivering Change programme by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) will support the sector to implement fully equitable, human-rights based approaches to represent previously unheard voices in Scottish museums.

Kids in Museums held a ‘Playful Prompts’ training webinar in partnership with Museums Galleries Scotland in August 2022.

This is the second blog in a set of three commissioned blogs from Professor Tommy J. Curry. Tommy is a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. These blogs follow on from Tommy’s lecture series in June 2022. The blogs will assess the challenges before museum educators, curators, and theorists in their quest to decolonise the museum. Read the first blog Decolonising the Scottish Museum: The Stakes of a Decolonial Approach to Scottish History.

Museums Galleries Scotland highlights and celebrates the museum sector’s work over the past ten years with the newly published Celebrating Ten Years of Going Further.

Desray talks about her experience undertaking a Digital Marketing Modern Apprenticeship at The Devil's Porridge museum.