Marketing and Public Relations (PR)

Find a list of Scottish regional and destination marketing contacts for your local area.

Evaluation helps you understand who comes to your museum. Learn more about evaluating your audience to help inform your content, interpretation, marketing, strategy, and planning.

You need visitors for your museum to be a success. Understanding your visitors and who you’d like to attract is essential: who they are, where they come from, their likes and dislikes. This can help you build a stronger museum that appeals to more people.

When social media is used effectively, it can play a key role in supporting your museum’s marketing and engagement objectives. This guide will help you develop a digital presence that's right for you and your audiences.

Our Marketing Toolkit will help you with your marketing activity. It includes information on knowing your audiences, where and how to market, developing your branding, and improving your photography.

We've developed a PR Toolkit to help you with your PR activity. This includes advice on which channels to use, how to write a press release, and how you can work with influencers.

This Knowledge Exchange event explored how museums and galleries can work with influencers to effectively promote their venues.

This webinar will help you define what ‘diversifying audiences’ means for your organisation. There is value in clarifying what diversity means. Approaches to and the understanding of ‘diversifying audiences’ are changing. It’s distinct from equality and inclusion. 

This webinar explores how you can engage with digitally excluded audiences. Many of us have had to, or chose to, move to a digital-only approach to marketing. It’s important to remember that this doesn’t work for everyone and that we have the right tools to reach people.