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.
Summary of recent research offers insights into how the pandemic has impacted museums and galleries, what museums need, and how Art Fund support can be adapted over the coming weeks and months.
Watch the latest 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.
22 March 2021
Many organisations are struggling to attract income during the pandemic. Merrin Kalinowski and Nathaniel Hepburn explore how crowdfunding can help support your museum.
10 March 2021
Art Fund has long campaigned to improve the export licence system that protects our national treasures from being sold overseas. Sarah Philp, Art Fund’s director of programme and policy, reflects on the journey to get new measures in place, and what this means for our museums.
8 February 2021
To help us improve the funding we have offered during these difficult times, we’ve launched a new survey to understand the financial, marketing and professional support that our network of museums and galleries would find most useful in 2021.
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