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A heartfelt thank you to our volunteers
Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1–7 June each year. It’s an opportunity to recognise the incredible contribution volunteers ...
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Celebrating Outwith: A Programme of Talks, Poetry and Film (Sat 20 June)
Join us on Saturday 20 June for three special events marking the close of Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay.
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Repacking our human remains collection
Jenny, our Curator of Archaeology, has been busy this month repacking our human remains collection with Dr Jess Thompson from National ...
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New exhibition celebrates 200 years of RSA art
Shetland Museum and Archives is marking the Royal Scottish Academy’s 200th anniversary with a special new exhibition celebrating the ...
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Shetland Stemovators
We were delighted to be part of Shetland’s Stemovators event which was held at the Shetland Museum on 23rd April
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Baptist Rest Hut - new photos in the Archives
The Shetland Archives recently acquired two volumes of photographs from the period 1934-1936. The photographs feature the work of the ...
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The White Wife has found a new home
102 years since she came ashore in Yell, the White Wife has been restored and installed at the Old Haa Museum in Burravoe.
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Shetland's Weather Signs: Birds, Clouds and Borrowing Days
The last three days of March are known as Shetland’s Borrowing Days. According to folklore, the weather on each of these days offers ...
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Opening Highlights: Outwith Exhibition in Pictures
Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay is now open at Shetland Museum and Archives running until 20 June 2026.
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Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda’s Whalsay story brought to life in new exhibition at Shetland Museum and Archives
Shetland Museum and Archives will open its new exhibition ‘Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay’ to the public this Saturday (28 ...
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Easter Holiday Events
Join us this Easter for a special programme of family activities inspired by our upcoming exhibition Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and ...
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A Tribute to Wendy Gear
The life and work of Wendy Gear reveal how a single family story - rooted in loss, memory, and the upheavals of 19th-century Shetland ...
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Celebrating Valda Grieve this International Women’s Day
Valda was an incomer to Whalsay in 1933, when she moved there with her young son Michael to join her husband. Born in Cornwall in ...
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Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay - Event Programme
The story of Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda in Whalsay continues to inspire nearly a century on. Discover their legacy through a vibrant ...
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We are hiring!
If you’re passionate about Shetland’s cultural heritage and want to make a real difference helping to protect, celebrate and share ...
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