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.
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.
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.
Watch this webinar from Art Fund exploring how museums are adapting to closures and restrictions, and reaching audiences in fascinating new ways.
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.
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.
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.
4 October 2021
Today we announce the 22 museums, galleries and networks to benefit from the first round of 'Reimagine' grants, which aim to increase creativity and stability in the museum sector.
21 September 2021
Firstsite in Colchester is announced as the winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 at a ceremony held at the Science Museum in London and hosted live on the BBC.
28 July 2021
Relevant funders, including Art Fund, alongside sector bodies have updated their co-ordinated approach in response to urgent situations when museums, archives, historic sites or collections are at risk. This joint statement sets out this commitment.
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