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There are currently 49 collections recognised by the Scottish Government as being Nationally Significant to Scotland. Cared for by museums and galleries across the country. We’ll soon be announcing the 50th Recognised Collection, which is an incredible reflection on the important collections in Scotland’s museums and galleries.

This month we supported our friends at the Scottish Museums Federation in spotlighting our sector on Scottish Museums Day. Just weeks before that at our closing event for the Skills for Success programme, Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop, heard first-hand of the sector’s life changing work in diversifying the cultural workforce.

As the Skills for Success Programme (SFS) comes to a close we're taking time to look back over the past 12 months and find out more about people's experiences. Markus Offer, Programme Manager for Skills for Success, tells us about what it's like to coordinate an award winning vocational programme.

Listen to our Skills for Success Learners as they reflect on their experiences on the vocational training programme

In the run-up to International Musuems Day (#IMD2019), we want to spark the imagination of social media users and the press alike. We want to reflect the fun, inclusive, and personal nature of museums, highlighting their positive place in people's lives.

What if you museum collection needs working knowledge of medical instruments to really understand what these items actually do? How do you overcome that barrier to allow the public to really engage with your collection? It's a problem the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow have been seeking to solve in this video case study.

In 2008 the entire collection of Aberdeen Gallery and Museums was designated as a Nationally Significant Collection by Museums Galleries Scotland. This Nationally Significant Collection ranges from fine art, to celebrating Aberdeen’s industrial heritage.

Festival of Museums is the perfect excuse to get a bit closer to that lost era of style and opulence, and introduce our visitors to Style at Sea: A Night of Cocktails, Dancing and Glamour.

2009 was an important year for the Scottish Football Museum. In October the collections held by the museum were Recognised as being Nationally Significant. Four months earlier the museum embarked on a one year pilot project, using images from its collection to support people living with dementia.

“Without promotion something terrible happens… Nothing!” …and with that piece of wisdom from the circus maestro P.T. Barnum, we kick off this blog on taming the lion that is promotion. Get this right and your event will be Big Top rather than Big Flop, so invest some effort into this early on and those punters will step right up without any last minute clowning around.