Events
Shetland Museum and Archives are proud to offer a range of events for adults, children and famlies, covering a variety of themes throughout the year. Our own events are detailed below, or see the 'What's On' Calendar for all public events and exhibition listings for the building.
Visit our Box Office to view event listings at our heritage sites
Shetland Museum Socials - drop-in
Learning Room, Shetland Museum & Archives
Come along to our informal Shetland Museum Socials running fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons from 2pm - 3.30pm. Each session will have a heritage theme as the focus. Enjoy a cuppa, have a chat and learn something new!
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An Afternoon of Shanty Music
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Shetland Museum Boat Hall
Come and enjoy an afternoon of shanty singing, music and stories with the Shalder Shanty group, the crew from the Sørlandet, and Shirley & Elsbeth, in the Shetland Museum Boat Hall.
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Concertina Sketchbook Workshop with Helen E Acklam (for children)
10:00am - 12:00pm
Shetland Museum
Join artist Helen E Acklam to make your very own concertina sketchbook! Have fun experimenting with colours, patterns and marks, then turn your creations into a folding book you can open up and share. Suitable for children aged 8 - 12.
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Concertina Sketchbook Workshop with Helen E Acklam (for adults)
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Shetland Museum
Explore experimental mark-making and painting techniques with artist Helen E Acklam, then bring them together in a handmade concertina sketchbook.
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Slander, Theft and Violence in early seventeenth-century Shetland: a talk by John Shaw
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Auditorium, Shetland Museum & Archives
How people slandered each other reveals a great deal about a society. It speaks to their fears and anxieties and to the preoccupations of the elites that ran the legal system. In this lecture John Shaw will examine how slander was treated in the Sheriff Court operated by Earl Patrick Stewart and how this related to crimes like theft and assault.
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