Learning and Events

Join this live training to learn how to reduce the environmental impact of temporary and touring exhibitions.   You’ll discover practical strategies, explore a real-life case study, and gain confidence in making environmentally informed decisions.

Members-only event. The Exhibitions Group Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief (MGETR) session with Mo Suleman will take place online (Zoom) on Monday 9 November 2026, 12:00 - 13:30.

This CPD-accredited, training provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical aspects of copyright.  You’ll explore what copyright protects, how long it lasts, who owns rights, and how to manage risks and opportunities when using or licensing creative works.

Our popular, free, annual Online Share Session takes place 12:00 - 13:00 on Tuesday 24 November 2026.

This training will help participants ensure their exhibitions programmes are strategic: delivering for organisational aims, audience development and their own aims as creative programmers. 

Join colleagues nationwide for networking and inspiration at the UK’s principal event for the cultural exhibitions sector.

This training will help participants develop confidence and skills in leading and supporting community engagement in museums for exhibition making.

Join us for our free annual Sector Thought Leader Webinar, Innovations in Programme Funding: Small Changes - Big Impact on Friday 25 September 2026, 12:00 - 13:00. The webinar will focus on institutions who have taken really interesting approaches to engaging new funding partners for their programmes, with the goal of financial sustainability for the organisation as a whole.

This training will increase the confidence of participants to work in partnership and negotiate key areas of a partnership agreement.

This virtual training explores why and how you might commission a contemporary artist to create new work as part of a temporary exhibition or touring project.

This live virtual training guides participants through the lending and borrowing process when borrowing from UK public museums and galleries.

This virtual, interactive training helps museum professionals build their skills and confidence in undertaking in-person and virtual courier trips, as well as preparing to receive in-person or virtual couriers at their own organisation.

Power Hour sessions are information-based mentoring sessions focused on a challenge you are experiencing in relation to an area of your exhibition, touring or partnership work.

We offer consultancy and bespoke training to support your touring work. Please contact us if you or your organisation needs advice or strategic support not covered through our regular professional development programme.

We can come to you! Building on its successful professional development programme in the UK, The Exhibitions Group now offers training internationally.

Join colleagues nationwide for networking and inspiration at the UK’s principal event for the cultural exhibitions sector.

Virtual training for anyone new to, or who wishes to start, producing and/or receiving local, regional and national UK touring exhibitions.

This workshop explores the economic and partnership models that venues can utilise to tour nationally.

Thanks to Art Fund support, in 2021 The Exhibitions Group hosted a series of Sector Support Webinars.

In previous years, we have exhibited, delivered talks, and hosted networking sessions. We are also proud partners on the M+H Awards 'Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year' category. More information on our involvement in the next M+H Show will be shared here soon.