Professional development
We work with partners to offer training and career development opportunities for curators and other museum professionals.
Explore opportunities to further skills and expertise, and share knowledge across the sector.
We work with partners to offer training and career development opportunities for curators and other museum professionals.
Explore opportunities to further skills and expertise, and share knowledge across the sector.
To do this we’re carrying out research into how we can create and deliver online learning specifically for art and museum professionals.
Please help us understand how we can best meet your learning needs by completing our short survey.
If you're an arts professional working in a UK museum or gallery, you can buy a Curators' Art Pass for just £20. The pass offers all the benefits of the National Art Pass, and helps you support your colleagues across the sector by contributing funds towards our work.
3 July 2019
We speak to some of the people behind each of the museums shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 about their highlights of the past year, and what makes their museum so special.
17 June 2019
Today we announced a new fund supporting the conservation of works in museum and gallery collections, as well as further investment for smaller projects.
13 June 2019
Applications are now open for the third round of funding from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund, which helps museums and galleries nationwide to borrow major works of art and objects from the UK's national collections.
28 May 2019
This month's curator explains the unique experience of curating at a learning institution and describes how acquiring key works was a highlight of her career.
5 March 2019
Current Art Fund curatorial trainees Kate O'Donoghue and Eleanor Hutchison update us on their respective placements at the Walker Art Gallery and Compton Verney.
30 April 2019
Assistant curator at Ceredigion Museum, Alice Briggs talks about the satisfaction of running community projects and offers insight into curating the museum's current exhibition, Sheep.
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