Museums Matter illustrates how public investment in museums of all sizes and scope enables them to contribute to key public policy priorities across the UK.

Working Internationally: Can museums and galleries save UK diplomacy?: Soft power in turbulent times.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2020 Working Internationally Conference on Thursday 12 March at Leeds Art Gallery.

The 2020 Working Internationally Conference will examine the variety of ways in which museums and galleries create and influence soft power. 

A bold new report from the English Civic Museums Network, The Future of Civic Museums: A Think Piece examines the particular importance of civic museums in the 21st Century.

NMDC supports and promotes museums working in partnership across the UK to deliver a huge range of projects including exhibitions, training, conservation, research, learning and community engagement.

NMDC works to make the case to Government and major funders for continued investment in museums, highlighting museums' key contribution to tourism and the economy as well as to health and well-being, education, society and local communities.

NMDC supports and promotes museums' international work, including as co-organisers of the annual Working Internationally Conference.

Highlights of the events and exhibitions of NMDC member museums and galleries for 2019, from exhibitions on the Cold War and the 80s to a history of the Jolly Roger.

Our monthly newsletter includes updates on NMDC activities and policy news from around the UK museum sector and beyond.

See the NMDC jobs board for all the latest vacancies at NMDC's 45 museum, library and archive members across the UK.