Our reports into key areas of concern within the museum sector offer insight and practical advice you can use in your own organisation.
Supporting museums
Art Fund supports the vital work of museums and galleries across the UK.
We give grants to help museums acquire and share works of art, support the professional development of curators, and inspire and engage new audiences.
Art Fund programme
As museums and galleries negotiate the challenges caused by the pandemic, we’ll continue to be here for all our partners. We know times remain uncertain and so, whether you want to discuss a new application, or you’re a current grant holder and need additional flexibility, please do get in touch.
Apply for funding
See our open funding programmes to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis.
Professional development
Explore training and career development opportunities for curators and other museum professionals, and how to apply.
Digital services
Use our free digital services to help with audience engagement, crowdfunding and online ticketing, which can help with capacity and timed entry during reopening.
Join the network
Joining the National Art Pass network of venues helps you attract visitors, access funding and raise the profile of your museum with our marketing support.
Case studies
Reaching audiences digitally during the Covid-19 crisis
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft turned to Art Fund for a small project grant to help realise #CreateToRelate – an online programme of talks, workshops and events led by artists, craftspeople and art historians aimed at audiences unable to visit during lockdown.
How an international visual arts festival went digital
Glasgow International
Glasgow International is the largest annual festival for contemporary visual art in Scotland. Each edition welcomes around 250,000 visits to exhibitions at venues across the city. In response to the Covid-19 crisis, Glasgow International took the difficult decision to postpone the festival five weeks before it was scheduled to open.
Building a network for queer heritage
National Trust
A new formal membership network providing peer support for people in the UK working with LGBTQ+ collections and histories, developed by a collective body of organisations, led by the National Trust.
Latest blogs
Looking Ahead: Survey for museum directors 2022
15 February 2022
To help us continue to improve the funding and support we offer, today we are opening our third annual survey for museums directors.
New research into UK touring exhibitions published
2 February 2022
Today we are publishing new research, commissioned in partnership with Creative Scotland, providing an overview of the current practice and future potential for touring and sharing exhibitions and visual arts programmes across the UK.
Announcing the latest UK museums and networks receiving £1.14m in Reimagine grants
26 January 2022
From a new mindful audio guide for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter, co-created with local people, to a reinterpretation of Europe's largest collection of Jacquard silk handlooms at the Silk Museum in Macclesfield, today we announce the projects Art Fund is supporting in the latest two rounds of Reimagine grants.
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