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Museums Galleries Scotland: Museum Development Fund
Created: 12/05/2026
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
The Museum Development Fund is designed to support accredited museums to make strategic steps towards becoming more resilient organisations. They will fund support museums to deliver medium sized, strategic sustainable development projects in line with your own business plans and Scotland’s museums and galleries strategy.
This fund can support a wide range of project activity. You must demonstrate how you will meet the grant outcomes:
- Funded organisations will be more resilient
- Funded organisations will be more environmentally sustainable
- Collections will be better cared for and managed and more accessible
- The museum workforce will be more skilled, confident, and diverse
- A wider range of people will be engaging with and represented in museums
- Museums will enhance quality of life for people by improving wellbeing, supporting learning, or contributing to place-making
Who can apply?
Any organisation that runs an Accredited Museum in Scotland can apply. They will accept applications for partnership work where the majority of the project benefits will be for Accredited museums.
How to apply
Application forms are available via the fund website. Expressions of Interest are not mandatory but encouraged.
The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on Wednesday 17 June 2026.
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