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Additional Museum Skills workshop

An additional FREE workshop in the autumn Museum Skills programme has just opened for booking. On Social Networking and why it is important for museums, this is a must for anyone who doesn't understand social networking or thinks it isn't relevant for museums. The workshop will take place on 29th October at Chippenham College (across the road from the railway station).

Click here for more details or to book, go to the Museum Skills Programme 2010 link in the blue column on the right.

£500 bursary available

Understanding British Portraits bursary 2010/11 for South West Region museum staff and volunteers

The South West Regional Museums Hub, a key partner in the UBP network, is funding a bursary for one member of staff or volunteer working in an Accredited Museum in the South West region to carry out portrait based research. £500 is available. Applications have to be submitted by 5pm on 10th September, so apply now.

The portrait shown here - Mr Morton, Works Manager by Stanley Spencer - is reproduced with kind permission of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and was the subject of Helen Bottomley's research in 2009.

What's the economic impact of your museum?

The Association of Independent Museums' (AIM) toolkit Economic Value of the Independent Museum Sector is now available to download. It enables you to calculate the value of your own museum in your own local area, providing a useful advocacy tool and enabling you to make your case to economic, political and tourism stakeholders. Useful indeed in these times of cuts.