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The Museum Development Fund is designed to support accredited museums to make strategic steps towards becoming more resilient organisations. They will fund support museums to deliver medium sized, strategic sustainable development projects in line with your own business plans and Scotland’s museums and galleries Strategy.

This fund can support a wide range of project activity. You must demonstrate how you will meet the grant outcomes:

1. Funded organisations will be more resilient
2. Funded organisations will be more environmentally sustainable
3. Collections will be better cared for and managed and more accessible
4. The museum workforce will be more skilled, confident, and diverse
5. A wider range of people will be engaging with and represented in museums
6. Museums will enhance quality of life for people by improving wellbeing, supporting learning, or contributing to place-making

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Geographical areas funded: Scotland

Fund type

Type of funding:

Grant

Type of cost:

Capital, Revenue

Fund award sizes

Minimum:

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Who can apply

Any organisation that runs an Accredited Museum in Scotland can apply. They will accept applications for partnership work where the majority of the project benefits will be for Accredited museums.

When to apply

Round 2:

• Applications open: 20 August 2025
• Expression of Interest deadline: 17 September 2025.
• Application deadline: 1 October 2025

Next deadline: 17 Sep 2025

How to apply

You must first submit an expression of interest by the EOI deadline for the round you wish to apply for.

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Activites funded: Advocacy Arts and culture Education and training

Beneficiaries funded: General public

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