Focus on: collaboration in action
Business partnerships, forums, and shared engagement activities: three museum sector workers offer insights into how they’re achieving the collaboration aims of Scotland’s museums and galleries strategy.
Joint statement on unethical sales from collections
The 2015 joint sector statement that warns against the disposal of collection items for financial purposes has been updated and reiterated for 2024.
About MGS
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for Scotland’s museums sector. We support museums and galleries, through strategic investment, advice, workforce development and advocacy.
MuseumNext: Digital Collections Summit
The Digital Collections Summit brings together museum sector workers from around the globe to share case studies, actionable strategies, and new ideas on the digital side of museum collections.
Our response to the Scottish Parliament's pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26
Our submission to the pre-budget scrutiny highlights museum sector workforce reductions and warns of an urgent need for investment in museums and galleries.
Our new social media strategy
Robyn, Rosie, and Joe from our communications team explain our plans to enhance our engagement with the sector through a new social media strategy.
Delivering Change: Museum Activists Programme
Information on the Delivering Change: Museum Activists programme, open to anyone in Scotland who works or volunteers in the museum sector.
Delivering Change: Museum Transformers Programme
Delivering Change: Museum Transformers is an organisational change programme for 16 museums that aims to help all people to access culture.
Delivering Change
Delivering Change is a three-year programme, which supports museums and galleries across Scotland to make changes to help all people to access culture.
Annual Review 2023-24
Read about our impact, funding, finances, and work on Scotland's Museums and Galleries Strategy in this review of our activity for 2023-24.
Our statement on racist violence across the UK
Lucy Casot, CEO condemns the racist violence taking place across the UK and highlights the urgency of continuing the work to ensure museums are welcoming and safe spaces for all.
Grassroots Support Groups
Grassroots Support Groups (GSGs) include regional, Scottish national, and UK-wide, groups. GSGs tend to be structured around peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and support around areas of shared interest or identity.