Summer Holiday Activities
Join us this summer for family-friendly events and workshops, with free drop-in activities and bookable sessions for all ages.
Maritime Family Fun Day
Thursday 9 July | 10am - 2pm | Free drop-in
Activities, Trails, Crafts, Artefacts, Demonstrations
Pictish Prints Workshop
Wed 15 July | P4-7 | 2.30pm - 4pm | Tickets £5 - BOOK
Be inspired by Pictish symbols and create colourful artwork by carving and printing your own design while discovering how the Picts lived in Shetland.
Mural Day - My Museum
Wednesday 22 July | 10am - 1pm | Free drop-in
Get creative and help us design a colourful collage celebrating our heritage, history and museum treasures
Build a Broch
Thursday 23 July | P4-7 | 2.30pm - 4pm | Tickets £5 - BOOK
Discover Shetland’s Iron Age Brochs and the people who built them, then create your own air-drying clay Broch inspired by objects in our galleries.
Build a Broch
Wed 29 July | P1-4 | 10.30am - 12noon | Tickets £5 - BOOK
Discover Shetland’s Iron Age Brochs and the people who built them, then create your own air-drying clay Broch inspired by objects in our galleries.
Photography Family Fun Day
Friday 31 July | 10am - 2pm | Free drop-in
Activities, Trails, Crafts, Artefacts, Demonstrations
Pictish Prints Workshop
Wed 5 August | P1-4 | 10.30am - 12noon | Tickets £5 - BOOK
Be inspired by Pictish symbols and create colourful artwork by carving and printing your own design while discovering how the Picts lived in Shetland.
Mural Day - Crofting
Wednesday 12 August | 10am - 1pm | Free drop-in
Get creative and help us design a colourful collage celebrating our heritage, history and museum treasures
Crofthouse Museum, Dunrossness
Family Fun Day
Friday 14 August | 10am - 2pm | Free drop-in
Step back in time with a range of family-friendly activities inspired by traditional crofting life.
Have a go at butter making, create a straw duckie using Shetland oat straw, enjoy crofting toys and colouring, and follow a nature trail around the crofthouse and garden.Take a tour of the 19th-century crofthouse and learn how families lived, worked, and made a living from the land. Peek inside the box beds, discover traditional furnishings, and hear stories about life in a typical Shetland croft. Bring a picnic and spend some time exploring the crofthouse garden and surrounding area.
