GEM Training Courses

GEM is invested in continuing professional development those working in learning within museums, heritage and cultural settings.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) benefits both the individual and the employer, and of course it benefits our sector too.

Whether you’re looking to improve your abilities, develop your contacts and networks, update your skills or keep up to date with the sector’s latest developments and best practice, then you are in the right place.

GEM is working towards professionalising the museums and heritage learning workforce. The learning workforce is crucial in ensuring that museums are engaged with their communities.

GEM’s threefold approach is to:

• Embed its competency framework for the heritage learning workforce in all its professional development work.
• Offer training at three different accessible levels that support the development of the core competencies outlined in the framework.
• Use its professional membership scheme to formally recognise the professional knowledge, skills and expertise of GEM members, and provide a focus and incentive for members’ CPD.

Our former education officer, Holly Bee, tells us more about the courses developed as part of GEM’s Learning & Sharing Centre project in 2017 (funded by ACE).