Lead Partner: Scottish Borders Council Museums and Galleries Service
Partners: Scottish Borders Council Libraries and Information Services, Scottish Borders Council Museums, Trimontium Trust, Buccleuch Heritage Trust, Thirlestane Castle, Traquair House, Almond Valley Heritage Centre, West Lothian Council, Hopetoun House, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Scottish Academy, City of Edinburgh Council, Scottish Mining Museum, Rosslyn Chapel Trust, Museum of Communication, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Fife Folk Museum, Crail Heritage Museum, St Andrews Preservation Trust, Scottish Fisheries Museum, University of St Andrews Museum Collections, Midlothian Council, Linlithgow Heritage Trust, Arniston House, University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, East Lothian Council Museums, Fife Council Museums, British Golf Museum, Bennie Museum.
This project is building capacity within a partnership of independent and local authority museums, galleries, historic houses and university collections through a carefully researched training programme to meet priority needs.
In Year One, the project delivered workshops in collections care, customer service, and an exciting programme of Behind the Scenes Visits to partner organisations and the National Museums Scotland. Each event enabled individuals to network and share skills with partners in the East of Scotland. Year Two will see this work continue alongside a Leadership Management Programme.
In addition to delivering the training programme, the project has invested in individual organisations through a Training Support Fund. This fund allows partners to focus on specific organisational needs that are not already addressed through the project activities.
Information and skills sharing is a key element to the project and so a website has been developed to increase partners� awareness of training available. The website includes details of all training provided by the project, a Skills Exchange Database, case studies, factsheets and a forum.
All these project activities are enabling partners to develop significant links with regional, economic and business agendas and to bring in additional capacity to the sector.
Contact: Mary Lewis
T: 01896 833 837
E: [email protected]
W: www.trainingmages.org
Please click on the link to view the press release of the project launch
