Exhibitions
There are a number of exhibition spaces and feature display areas throughout the Museum and Archives building. The artefacts and works on display change regularly and details of our current shows are listed here.
The main exhibition space is Da Gadderie. Shows on display here can be by individual artists, or curated by the Museum's own Exhibitions Officer based on Museum and Archive artefacts, or including touring exhibitions from other musuems, galleries or institutions. Details of some of the previous high profile shows are included on the Our Own Shows Archive page.
Any artist who would like to display work in the building should contact the Exhibitions Officer to discuss.
Download the 2017 Gadderie and exhibitions programme
Download the 2016 Gadderie programme.
Holbein Exhibition
The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2018: 4 May to 15 July. Hans Holbein the Younger - A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, (Anne Lovell?), about 1526-8, oil on oak
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Angela Hunt – ‘Shetland Locations’
Paintings in the exhibition depict landscape and heritage informed by influences from design and fine art perspectives.
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Tom Teasdale - ‘Sunny Intervals’
A photographic exhibition commissioned by the cultural attaché of the European Commission in the UK. The London based photographer is exhibiting a collection of black and white photographs documenting aspects of living on some of the furthest reaches of the United Kingdom in Scotland, focusing on Shetland, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides.
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Shetland Family History Society - Focus Display
This year the Society has been researching the Shetland family name ‘Robertson’. The exhibition in the upper foyer combines their research and a selection of artefacts from the Museum’s collection.
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