What we do

Museum Development East Midlands offers support to museums and heritage sites throughout the East Midlands.

For up to date information, contacts and opportunities download our MDEM information booklet 2015-18

Museum Development offers:

Enquiries and Information Service
Development Programmes
Grants
One to One Support
Forum Support

Enquiry and Information Service

Museum Development East Midlands provides a regular news and information distribution service that aims to keep all museums throughout the East Midlands up to date with news, events, developments, training and funding opportunities, whether locally sourced or nationally relevant.

If you would like to join our mailing list or if you have a question or query, call 0116 305 7796.

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Development Programmes 2015 – 2018

Freelancers are engaged by us, to facilitate key programmes and deliver training and support.

Programmes for 2015 – 2018:

To find out more about our development programmes, please visit Support and Grants.

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Grants

Several grant schemes are available for application. Grants are awarded up to £2,000. Choose from the following to support your projects and ambitions:

Business Development
Small Grants Fund
Collections Access Fund

Please remember that we can only support Accredited museums and those working towards Accreditation.

Find out more on our Support and Grants page.

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One to One Support

Organisations can access expertise and guidance from professional museum freelancers, through our development programmes.

Support can be offered to help diagnose areas of need, or access to support to address a specific area of development (e.g. help with funding applications, advice on new developments, support towards Accreditation – policies and plans etc).

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