The application deadline is 4:00 PM, Thursday, November 13, 2025.
The Council for the Arts reminds you that applications are now open for the 2025 Special Arts Fund. The application deadline is 4:00 PM on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
In the 2025 supplemental allocation of the collections fund, accredited museums can apply for grants for professional development or for digital outreach. Applications received after the application deadline will not be considered. An application form can be found here.
INFORMATION
The following funding categories are available:
a) Digital promotion grant
- Recognized museums can submit at any time one application about grants in a category a) Digital promotion grant and received at most one grant.
- The purpose of these grants is to strengthen the digital promotion of the museums, whether on social media or on their own websites.
- Emphasis is placed on the grant enhancing the museum as a destination for visitors or introducing the museum's activities.
- You can apply for grants, for example, to create content for publication, to cover publication costs, to obtain external services to promote social media or websites, or to promote the museum's activities, to name a few.
- Each scholarship and application is maximum of 300,000 krónur.
b) Continuing education for museum employees
- Accredited museums may submit one application per funding cycle for category b) Professional development for museum staff, and may receive a maximum of one grant.
- A professional development grant for museum staff can be used, for example, to attend courses or conferences at home or abroad.
- Each scholarship and application is maximum of 300,000 krónur.
c) Exchange of funds between museums
- Accredited institutions may submit one application per funding cycle for category c) Staff exchanges between institutions and may receive at most one grant.
- The inter-museum transfer is intended for peer education of museum staff and shall be used for travel and subsistence allowances.
- It should be noted which museum will be visited and what will be learned.
- Each scholarship and application is maximum of 300,000 krónur.
d) Courses/speakers – Museums apply individually
- Recognized museums can submit at any time one application about support in a class d) Courses/speakers and received at most one grant.
- Each museum can receive a maximum of one grant in this category.
- This category of grant is intended as a grant to the museum to hold courses/symposiums/conferences or to host lectures domestically that could benefit the museum as a whole as well as a larger group of museum members.
- Each scholarship and application is maximum of 300,000 krónur.
e) Courses/speakers – Collaborative projects of recognized museums
- Recognized museums can apply in collaboration for a grant in a category e) Courses/speakers – collaborative projectsIf the collaboration is between at least two recognized museums, additional parties may also participate in these grant applications.
- This category of grant is intended as a grant to the museum to hold courses/symposiums/conferences or to host lectures domestically that could benefit the museum as a whole as well as a larger group of museum members.
- Each museum can be a party to more than one application.
- If museums apply in collaboration, each grant and application can be maximum of 600,000 krónur.
General
- Grants from the second additional allocation are classified as project grants with emphasis (see Article 3 of the Museum Fund's Allocation Rules).
- Assignments from the fund will be made by the end of 2025.
- Grants from the second supplemental allocation of 2025 must be used by the end of 2026. No further extension will be granted for the use of grants from the 2025 supplemental allocation – the deadline for the utilization report is March 2, 2027.
- Please note that it is not possible to apply for grants for projects that have already been completed.
- Applications will not be accepted after the application deadline.