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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.

In 2019 MGS began a Modern Apprenticeship scheme to offer six young people an opportunity to gain a Diploma in Digital Marketing. Five apprentices are based in host museums across Scotland. The final apprentice is based at MGS. Robyn Evans, Digital Marketing Modern Apprentice at Museums Galleries Scotland, shares her first impressions of joining the museum sector and beginning her vocational qualification.

At a time when political and world events are happening at a breakneck speed the act of collecting the contemporary is especially poignant. This month we ran a workshop with speakers from Glasgow Women’s Library, Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, British Golf Museum, and National Museums Scotland looking at their approach to contemporary, or rapid response, collecting.

Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters officially launched on 13 November at the National Museum of Scotland, at an event attended by representatives from the tourism and cultural sectors, including Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop.

We're making changes to our funding programme to continue to adapt to the changing needs of the museum sector. Read more about the introduction of the Subject Specialist Network Bursary.

Rachael Rowley, Business Services Manager at MGS, talks the process creating an organisational a wellbeing policy with staff at MGS and what was learnt whilst developing it.

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.