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See our open funding programmes, including our new Respond and Reimagine grants to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to the immediate challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis.
See our open funding programmes, including our new Respond and Reimagine grants to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to the immediate challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis.
These new grants aim to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the future.
These grants help professional networks to develop and share knowledge, skills and resources.
These grants provide funding to help museums, galleries and other visual arts organisations realise adventurous projects, up to £10,000, across a range of activities to benefit their audiences.
This programme provides funding for museums and galleries to borrow works from national collections, encouraging the sharing of works more widely across the UK.
We give grants of over £4m every year to help UK museums and galleries acquire objects and works of art for their collections.
Curators can apply for funding towards travel and other costs, to enable collections and exhibition research projects in the UK or abroad.
A new funding partnership with the Museum Development Network (MDN) to reach museums across all nations of the UK who have not yet received emergency grants or smaller museums fulfilling specific cultural or local needs.
Launching soon with more information available via the MDN.
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If you're a curator or museum professional, explore our training and career development opportunities to further your skills and expertise.
If you have an idea for a way we could work together, we'd love to talk to you. All our funding programmes begin with a conversation.
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