Events

Free marketing and reopening advice for museums.

Join this free online event to talk with people in similar roles, share your volunteer organiser insights, ask questions and pick up practical tips.

Join this session to discuss the findings of National Museums Scotland's recent evaluation of their Digital Schools Sessions

Your website has never been more important for your tourism business. It’s probably the first stop for the majority of your customers in their journey towards spending money with you. So how can you make that customer experience and journey better for everyone?

As Google constantly updates the way it presents information in search results, it’s more vital than ever to understand how to get your tourism business showing in the right way at the exact time your visitor is looking for it.

Join Ruthanne Baxter, Museums Manager and Prescribe Culture Lead at University of Edinburgh, to get an overview of social prescribing.

This free SURF Awards workshop provides an opportunity to explore successful approaches towards linking creative arts and culture into regeneration initiatives. The winning and highly commended projects from the ‘Creative Regeneration’ category highlighted in the 2020 SURF Awards process will provide comment on their experiences and transferable learning.

If you joined part one of this two part series you will have learnt how search engines work, and how to find the keywords people are searching for.

This session will be of particular interest in considering representation, rapid and contemporary collecting, narrative approaches, and health, wellbeing and social impact.

Throughout the pandemic demand for loan boxes has increased across the museum and heritage sector. Emily Nelson from Leeds Museums and Galleries will lead this GEM & MGS knowledge exchange session looking at how to ensure that your loan box service is Covid Secure.

The SURF’s 2021 SURF Annual Conference will focus on Post-Covid Recovery, Place-Based Regeneration and Climate Change.

In this bitesize session we will go through the Accreditation requirements for documentation policy (5.1) and the Spectrum primary procedures (5.2) including documentation planning, signposting to further guidance and examples online. The session is suitable for beginners or those in need of a refresher.

These facilitated sessions are designed for the museums workforce, and will consult around the 6 themed areas of the consultation for Empire, Slavery, and Scotland’s Museums: Collections and Interpretation; Education (curriculum); Participation; HR/Workforce; Research; and the Museum Proposal.

These facilitated sessions are designed for the museums workforce, and will consult around the 6 themed areas of the consultation for Empire, Slavery, and Scotland’s Museums: Collections and Interpretation; Education (curriculum); Participation; HR/Workforce; Research; and the Museum Proposal.

This programme is for learners who are new or aspiring leaders. It is designed to support learners to develop key leadership skills in order to work productively with those around them and lead in an effective and authentic way.

This session will take a scenario approach to explore a variety of disposals issues and themes including collections management and documentation, legal and ethical considerations.