Museums Galleries Scotland has launched a fund to improve skills and workforce development. The Scottish government is providing £80,000 for the programme, which will help museums to work in partnership to deliver training.
The programme follows the recent publication of a report highlighting the sector’s priorities and resource requirements.
Scotland’s Museums and Galleries: Activities, Needs and Support identified skills development as one of the top resources needed by the sector. Applications for up to £20,000 will be considered and will be assessed on a rolling basis. The fund opens on 1 April.
The Art Fund, meanwhile, is seeking applications for its Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme. The initiative is worth £50,000 a year and aims to help curators working with fine and applied art collections maintain and develop their specialist knowledge and expertise.
The fund is open to individual UK curators, scholars and researchers to undertake travel or other activities to extend and develop their curatorial expertise and knowledge.
Recent awards under the scheme have included £600 to the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, for attending the Frieze Art Fair and visiting London galleries; £750 to the Bowes Museum towards a trip to Paris to visit galleries and the former residence of the museum’s founder; and £500 to Derby Museum towards travel costs to research 17th- and 18th-century cabinets of curiosity. There are two categories of grant: for awards of more than and less than £2,000.
The programme follows the recent publication of a report highlighting the sector’s priorities and resource requirements.
Scotland’s Museums and Galleries: Activities, Needs and Support identified skills development as one of the top resources needed by the sector. Applications for up to £20,000 will be considered and will be assessed on a rolling basis. The fund opens on 1 April.
The Art Fund, meanwhile, is seeking applications for its Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme. The initiative is worth £50,000 a year and aims to help curators working with fine and applied art collections maintain and develop their specialist knowledge and expertise.
The fund is open to individual UK curators, scholars and researchers to undertake travel or other activities to extend and develop their curatorial expertise and knowledge.
Recent awards under the scheme have included £600 to the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, for attending the Frieze Art Fair and visiting London galleries; £750 to the Bowes Museum towards a trip to Paris to visit galleries and the former residence of the museum’s founder; and £500 to Derby Museum towards travel costs to research 17th- and 18th-century cabinets of curiosity. There are two categories of grant: for awards of more than and less than £2,000.
