Tender for Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums Project Evaluation

Empire, Slavery & Scotland’s Museums is a Scottish Government-funded project which explores how Scotland's museums can contribute to our understanding of the legacies of historic slavery, empire and colonialism. MGS is currently coordinating a national consultation to establish public and expert perspectives on this subject. An independent Steering Group, which is representative of relevant interests and diverse in its membership, will then make concrete and sustainable recommendations to the Scottish Government on how the Scottish museums and galleries sector can better address the legacies of historic slavery, empire and colonialism at every level.

The recommendations will also investigate how to ensure people in Scotland are aware of Scotland’s involvement in historic slavery, empire and colonialism and how that manifests itself in our society today. This will include how to reflect, interpret and celebrate the wide-ranging and positive contributions that the full diversity of the Scottish population has made, and continues to make, to Scotland. These recommendations will investigate the best mechanism of delivery of our shared past.

The recommendations will be provided to the Scottish Government in May 2022 and MGS seeks to appoint a contractor to undertake a project evaluation following conclusion. The successful contractor will work with MGS and the Steering Group to evaluate the approaches taken within the project as a whole, assessing the efficacy of the approaches taken by the Steering Group, project team, and external advisors to delivering the work.