Events
Choose from a wide range of in-person and online events, organised by MGS and other sector organisations. Includes workshops, talks, and Knowledge Exchange events.
Employability Advice Surgeries
Are you looking for tips and tricks to boost your employability skills? Join us for a free online session where you will receive personalised advice from a member of our team.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: MGS
- Venue: Online
Basic Collections Techniques (online)
This four day training is aimed at those just starting to work in natural history collections or those who would like to update their knowledge.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Venue: Online
Scotland's Museums and Galleries Strategy Symposium 2025
Join us in person and online for this event exploring the museum sector's progress on Scotland's Museums & Galleries Strategy.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: MGS
Members Together Online: Climate Justice
This event is for Museums Association members to come together and discuss MA's Museums for Climate Justice campaign.
- Price: Free for members
- Organiser: Museums Association
- Venue: Online
Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference: Volunteer-centred support
Make Your Mark is a campaign to increase the number and diversity of heritage volunteers in Scotland. This conference will focus on how to support a range of volunteers with varying abilities and needs.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Make Your Mark
- Venue: Online
Making space for creative climate action
Discover how your museum collections can inspire and engage communities in hopeful conversation and creative climate action.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: National Museums Scotland
- Venue: Online
Shipping Workshop (online)
This is a one-day training session on shipping specimens internationally in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Venue: Online
The Exhibitions Group 40th Anniversary Sector Thought Leader Webinar
Join sector thought leaders online for a discussion on exhibition making and touring, where we've come from and where we're going.
- Price: Free
- Venue: Online
Making museums safe and welcoming places for people living with dementia
What are the challenges for people living with dementia in visiting a museum or joining in with museum activities? Why do we want people living with dementia to come to our museums and our museum activities? In what ways will they benefit? What can we do to make a visit successful? Come along to find answers to these important questions.
- Price: Donations encouraged
- Organiser: Groam House Museum
- Venue: Online
Leadership and Innovation Training Programme
Existing and aspiring heritage sector leaders from the Greater Glasgow area are invited to attend this free training on strategic thinking, confident decision-making, and leadership skills.
- Price: Free
- Organisers: City of Glasgow College, MGS
- Venue: Glasgow
Marketing Campaigns Series: Accessible Campaigns
This webinar will explore how to create campaigns that are more accessible to your audiences.
- Price: Free for members
- Organiser: Arts Marketing Association
- Venue: Online
Using Social Media as a Tool for Advocacy
Find out how to harness the power of social media to promote advocacy work at this online event from the Scottish Heritage Social Media Group.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Scottish Heritage Social Media Group
- Venue: Online
What is Repatriation, actually?
What is repatriation, actually? Is an event for Black people, people of colour, and/or those who identify as part of the Global Majority, to come together to discuss and reflect on some of the big questions museums are faced with today.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: MGS
- Venue: Glasgow
Introduction to Museum Accreditation
An introductory session for any museum in Scotland looking to find out more about the Accreditation scheme.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: MGS
- Venue: Online
Towards Digital Collections
Providing a set of learning materials for GLAM professionals who work with digital collections or have future plans to do so.
- Price: Free
- Organiser: Towards Digital Collections
- Venue: Stirling