Museums+Tech 2020: Museums in a crisis COVID, content strategy & organisational change Georgina Brooke, National Museums Scotland In January 2020 I moved out of my home in Oxford, north of the border to Scotland, to start a new role as Digital Media Content Manager at National Museums Scotland. I’d done Hogmanay and Burns Night, I’d written a new content strategy, which was about to be rolled out across the organisation. I was beginning to feel like I’d got my foot under the door. By 19 March my mood had changed. The museum was closed, all exhibitions indefinitely postponed, my team was going to reduce by 50%, and all my lovely online audiences were very online, very stressed and very vocal. This paper will look at how the Digital Team at National Museums Scotland developed and adapted an effective content strategy through the lockdown period, including: The content formats and storytelling themes that most successfully connected online audiences with our collections and staff Black Lives Matter – convincing Senior Management to react quickly and commit to a step change in our policies on race and representation within the museums What we learnt and how these lessons are now changing our approach to audience engagement as the museum reopen