Date: Thursday 22 October 2015
Location: John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Organiser: Museums Galleries Scotland
Deadline for submission: Monday 16 March
Purpose: To offer a cost effective platform through which Scotland’s museums and galleries can network and engage with practical and relevant content, helping the sector to develop and work towards delivering against the National Strategy aims and objectives.
Theme/title: “Fighting Fit: Ready for Anything” (working title) will focus on developing the long-term resilience of the museums sector in facing challenging funding and political environments. The day will be organised around three sub-themes:
- ‘Robust’: organisational health – governance, business planning and change management
- ‘Resourceful’: creativity, enterprise and innovation
- ‘Responsive’: organisational agility and adaptability
All sessions should showcase creative and efficient solutions to challenges faced. The conference will create opportunities for knowledge exchange between museums and galleries and other sectors.
Programme: The day will consist of a mix of presentations, keynote and parallel sessions. We would welcome submissions from people outside the museum sector, keen to share knowledge relevant to the conference themes, as well as from those within the sector.
There will be a ‘marketplace’ of organisations that can support the museums sector.
Deadline for offers of papers:
Proposals should submitted on the offer of papers form and sent to conference@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk by 5pm on Monday 16 March. All contributions will be acknowledged and then evaluated by a panel.
If you would like to discuss anything prior to submission please contact Heather Doherty, Research and Evaluation Manager by e-mail or on +44(0)131 550 4127.