Museums Galleries Scotland

Museums Galleries Scotland

Supporting Scotland's Museums

Museums Galleries Scotland is the National Development Body for the museum sector in Scotland. Our role is to work collaboratively to invest in and develop a sustainable museum and galleries sector for Scotland, in line with the aims of Going Further: The National Strategy for Scotland's Museums and Galleries.

We work with a sector of over 400 museums and galleries, supporting and enabling them to meet their objectives in a number of ways including, though strategic investment, advice, advocacy and skills development opportunities.

Guided by the vision of the National Strategy for Scotland’s Museums and Galleries:

“Scotland’s museums and galleries will be ambitious, dynamic and sustainable enterprises: connecting people, places and collections; inspiring, delighting and creating public value".

Our aim is to lead the development, management and implementation of the National Strategy, facilitating and enabling museums and galleries in Scotland to deliver in line with the Strategy’s aims. Our objectives are:

  • To facilitate sector development in partnership with key stakeholders
  • To undertake focused investment in the sector which delivers impact and change
  • To raise museum standards across the sector
  • To develop effective communications with the sector and advocate on its behalf
  • To develop a high quality and robust evidence base for the sector and to inform and support our business operations and service offer
  • To ensure the National Development Body is an organisation fit for purpose to lead the sector

We aim to meet these objectives by:

  • Delivering investment and seeking to diversify funding streams
  • Facilitating skills development and capacity building
  • Maintaining and developing sector standards, including through Accreditation and the Recognition Scheme
  • Signposting to information, advice and resources and sharing best practice
  • Developing networks and brokering partnerships
  • Undertaking and commissioning research and disseminating findings
  • Gathering, monitoring and evaluating sector data to inform continuous improvement
  • Advocating on behalf of the sector to raise its profile and visibility with stakeholders and funders

Our values are:

  • Collaboration
  • Integrity
  • Passion for museums
  • Courageousness

Our priorities for the period 2013-2015 are informed by the needs and development requirements articulated by museums and galleries through consultation as set out in Scotland’s Museums and Galleries: Activities, Needs & Support and outlined in 'From Strategy to Action: A Delivery Plan for Scotland’s Museums and Galleries 2013-15.'

The priority areas are:

  • Knowledge and skills development
  • Funding and investment
  • Sector profile: marketing and advocacy
  • Standards and planning for sustainability, and
  • Collections and engagement.
Address: 
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
United Kingdom
Contact Number: 
0131 550 4100
Contact Email: 
admin@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
Website: 
http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/member/clydebank-museum-and-art-galle...

Venues for this Organisation

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Brander Museum

Housed in the local library, this collection of local history material contains archaeological finds of national importance. Includes a small and varied collection of British and foreign firearms, swords and daggers, shot and powder flasks and a few pieces of armour. 

Buckhaven Museum

A small local museum in a town once described as a full-flavoured fisher town. Buckhaven’s past importance in the East Coast Fisheries is reflected in the displays housed above Buckhaven Library. Free admission, open as Library. 

British Golf Museum

St Andrews, the home of golf, is also home to the British Golf Museum.

The museum has over 16,000 exhibits telling the story of golf from its origins in the Middle Ages to the present day.

Learning at the British Golf Museum

Bell Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews

The Bell Pettigrew Museum is the University's zoology museum.  It is a rare survival of a Victorian teaching museum, and wonderfully atmospheric.

The displays, which include examples of several extinct species, are arranged to allow the evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between animals to be clearly understood.

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Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum

Dunfermline’s fastest growing visitor experience

Quendale Watermill and Visitor Attraction

Restored overshot watermill with threshing machinery and various agricultural artefacts. Set on a working farm. A 10 minute video shows the mill in action. The local history of the area and agriculture is displayed. Craft/souvenir shop. Toilets and tourist information point.

Shetland Crofthouse Museum

The Crofthouse Museum takes visitors back to a time where life’s essentials were of a bare minimum. The House, barn and byre are all accessible under one roof and everything, from the floors to the kitchen appliances, is made with materials found and collected. 

Old Haa Museum

Yell is the stepping stone island to Unst and Fetlar and is also home of the Old Haa Museum. Here, the history of the island, including the whaling years and shipwrecks are summarised along with natural history, genealogy and a picture and sound archive.

Fetlar Interpretive Centre

A dynamic community-run museum on one of Shetland’s remoter islands. Displays on crofting and the sea are complemented by early film and storytelling recordings, and interactive multimedia displays bring to life the island’s natural and cultural history.

Auld Sköll Museum

George Waterson, the former Scottish Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, co-founded the Bird Observatory in 1948. Dr Waterson’s Memorial is a fascinating museum in the former Fair Isle School, which studies local social history and particularly the famous knitting traditions and patterns, plus natural history and archaeology.

Scalloway Museum

Chronicalling the Shetland Bus Operations

Scalloway Museum is owned by a charity, the Shetland Bus Friendship Society (SBFS), and run by volunteers. The charity was formed in 2001, to instate a memorial to those who served and died in Shetland Bus operations during World War II.  The memorial was unveiled in 2003. The group continued, and went on to achieve the museum you see before you today.

Unst Heritage Centre

Visit Unst Heritage Centre in Haroldswick and discover the unique story of Unst, the northernmost island in the UK.

Bearing in mind Unst’s special position as the northernmost outpost of the UK, the centre has a display about the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga, and a range of interpretive displays about geology, crofting, fine lace knitwear, the Shelties, etc.

Shetland Textile Museum

This 18th century fishing böd, located on the outskirts of Lerwick, is the birthplace of Arthur Anderson, co-founder of the P&O shipping company. Two rooms have been restored to how they looked 200 years ago, in the time of Arthur’s childhood. They also contain displays explaining the history of the whitefish industry at that time, when the böd was a fishing station house and warehouse.

Tangwick Haa Museum

Different aspects of life in Northmavine through the years are illustrated by using a mixture of artefacts and photographs. Part of the display has a new theme every year.

Unst Boat Haven

Maritime History of Shetland

The Boat Haven is dedicated to the maritime history of Shetland boats.

The collection consists of original wooden boats of various
types that have been in use over the past one hundred and forty
years.

Old tools, fishing gear, documents etc bring to live the era of fishing at 
the Far Haaf in open boats and the herring fishing at its peak in 1905.

Uig Museum

A community museum addressing many aspects of local history, including crofiting, fishing, Viking occupation, blackhouses, trades and crafts, archaeology and finds, and the Lewis Chessmen, with extensive genealogical information. 

Taigh Tasgaidh Chill Donnain

The Kildonan Centre in South Uist is a heritage and cultural amenity which includes a museum, a 

Taigh Chearsabhagh

Situated literally on the on the seas edge in the village of Lochmaddy, on the Isle of North Uist, Taigh Chearsabhagh welcomes countless visitors each year to experience the arts, culture and heritage of the Uists. The centre is focus for life in North Uist and dedicates itself to a constantly changing programme of heritage and art exhibitions.

Ness Heritage Centre

An impressive archive of documents, genealogical records, photographs, video and audio recordings and artefacts. 

This collection comprises some 500 artefacts illustrating the social, economic, cultural and religious life of Ness. Its strengths lie mainly in the fields of domestic life, social life, fishing and the sea. The material dates from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Museum Nan Eilean, Sgoil Lionacleit

A new museum and archive will create a major visitor destination and a gateway to the Gaelic-rich cultural heritage of the Islands.  Located in a modern purpose built extension to the restored Lews Castle it will open in the summer of 2015.

Exciting new galleries will look at the stories of the Islands and Islanders.  Visitors will be able to

Wick Heritage Museum

Little is known of the early history of this Northern Scottish town but there is ample evidence in the surrounding countryside of Neolithic/Bronze Age settlement and the shelters and defences of succeeding Ages. However, it was the Vikings that gave Wick its name (from the old Norse vik = bay).

West Highland Museum

Situated in the High Street in the heart of the historic town of Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, The West Highland Museum’s collections tell the story of the region and its history. Our most renowned and unusual collection relates to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite cause.

Ullapool Museum and Visitor Centre

Award-winning Highland Museum. Housed within a unique former Telford Parliamentary Church, it provides a stimulating insight into the life of a Highland parish. Large screen audiovisual presentation of Lochbroom. Local archives, records, genealogy and photos. Touchscreens. Exhibitions. Six European languages.

TimeSpan

Timespan Heritage and Art Centre comprises a museum, storytelling room, contemporary art gallery, community workshop and riverside garden

Timespan was founded in 1987 with the main aim of providing the community and visitors with an insight into the fascinating history of Helmsdale and its surrounding area. It has since developed from a small local heritage centre into an award-winning museum and the only (non-private) contemporary art gallery in Sutherland.

Tigh Hughag

Museum run by the Skerray Historical Association.

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