Open for applications for additional allocation 2023

Grants from the supplementary allocation are only available to recognized museums.

See the application form here: https://safnarad.eydublod.is/Forms/Form/23-UMS-AUK-UMS

INFORMATION

The following grant categories are available:

a) Digital promotion grant

1. • 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.
   • The emphasis is on the grant strengthening the museum as a destination for visitors or promoting 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

1. • Recognized museums can submit at any time one application about grants in a category b) Continuing education for museum employees and received at most one grant.
   • Continuing education grants for museum employees can be used, for example, to attend courses or conferences in Iceland or abroad.
   • Each scholarship and application is maximum of 300,000 krónur.

c) Exchange of funds between museums

1. • Recognized museums can submit one grant application per category at a time. c) Exchange of funds between museums and received at most one grant.
   • Exchange of funds between museums is intended for peer education of museum employees and shall be used for travel and subsistence grants.
   • 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

1. • 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

1. • 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.

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General

1. • Grants from the second additional allocation are classified as project grants with emphasis (see Article 3 of the Museum Fund's Allocation Rules).
   • The fund will be distributed before the end of 2023.
   • Grants from the second additional allocation in 2023 must be used before the end of 2024, no further deadline will be given for the use of grants from the additional allocation in 2023 – the deadline for submitting the utilization report is March 1, 2025.
   • 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.