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MGS Standards Support Officer, Lesley Scott, talks about her work with The Firth of Forth Lobster Hatchery and how museums can effectively communicate with their audiences online.

It’s high time for some good news. In amongst the torrent of news stories over the last month, there has also been many examples of museums and galleries responding to the situation with care for the communities they are part of, support for each other, and some much needed humour.

Markus Offer and Helen Raggett, our Mental Health First Aiders at MGS, have pulled together some tips on ways you can look after your mental wellbeing in lockdown.

MGS has partnered with a small Edinburgh business, KnotStressed Therapies & Wellbeing Centre to deliver 4 wellbeing sessions via Zoom over the coming weeks. KnotStressed Director, Onie Tibbit, writes for us about the importance of prioritising our own wellbeing during lockdown.

University museums are more visible, more open and more successful than ever before according to Steph Scholten, the new director of Scotland’s oldest public museum, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Our Modern Apprentice, Robyn Evans, writes about her experience on her first ever away day with Museums Galleries Scotland to view the redevelopment work at Paisley Museum.

As part of our wider approach to wellbeing at work, we asked MGS team members Helen and Markus to share their experience participating in Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid two-day training course and becoming workplace Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs).

Museum Accreditation is a national standard that shows the rest of the UK you have achieved a recognised standard of care and expertise for your museum, collections, visitors and staff. Our Accreditation Team here at MGS have been creating a series of tool-kits to help make planning your returns much smoother.

The Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee is seeking opinions on how to achieve community wellbeing. The MSPs on the Committee are keen to hear more about what people think affects ‘community wellbeing’ so this can guide and inform their future work.

The International museum conference, MuseumNext, returns to Edinburgh this March after nine years. For those who've never attended the conference before we asked Mark McLeod, Project Manager - Dunfermline Digital Tours, at Fife Cultural Trust and a regular MuseumNext attendee to tell us more about his experiences.