Professional development
Explore free training opportunities, online learning events and other sector resources to support our arts professional community to build skills, share new ideas and make connections for the future.
AAMC International Engagement Programme
Applications open
This programme is a collaboration between Art Fund and the US-based Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation, to enable UK curators to travel, network and deepen international relationships through creating opportunities for genuine exchange and learning.
Local/Digital: Discovering Creative Communities
Watch this webinar from Art Fund exploring how museums are adapting to closures and restrictions, and reaching audiences in fascinating new ways.
Case studies
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.
Reaching audiences digitally during the Covid-19 crisis
Ditchling Museum of Arts + 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.
More learning resources for arts professionals
News and 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.
New Collecting Awards will help curators expand UK’s collections
19 January 2022
From enabling the Museum of the Home to collect objects that reflect the true diversity of London to raising the visibility of trans identities through the acquisition of new works for the V&A, collecting projects supported through the latest round of Art Fund’s New Collecting Awards will help grow UK collections.
Museum Bulletin
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