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- New Archaeological Toys on Display
- What's on at our heritage sites this summer
- New Collections Manager appointed at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Spirit of Places - a selection of works for sale by Ron Sandford
- World War II Audio Recordings from Shetlanders
- Opening event of Ron Sandford’s new exhibition draws a big crowd
- VE80 - a night to remember
- Ron Sandford’s ‘Spirit of Places’ opens this weekend at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Memories of VE Day 80 years ago
- Treasure Trove Coming to Shetland this May
- VE Day Celebration at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Remembering Christina Jamieson this International Women’s Day
- Up Helly Aa 2025 Round Up
- Expressions of Interest - Lease of Café at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Shetland Museum unveils ‘Seen Furt’ in new photographic exhibition inspired by Shetland’s outdoors
- Viking Age Sword Pommel - an exciting addition to our collection
- Shetland Amenity Trust’s unveils Up Helly Aa 2025 events
- Up Helly Aa events at the Shetland Museum
- Film: Taking a closer look at Allover
- Winter preparations at the Crofthouse Museum
- Holiday Greetings from Shetland, 1942
- Public view sought on redevelopment of Shetland Museum and Archives’ galleries.
- Rounding up a busy week
- Fun Friday night at our Skekler Social
- Shetland Amenity Trust secures successful funding for maritime heritage project
- Museum Shop Sunday
- Hay's Dock by the Dowry announces closure
- Can you help us identify the last unknown person photographed in Chris Morphet’s Allover Exhibition?
- Explore Thomas Irvine's sheep book on our online archive catalogue. Woollies - this is one for you!
- New exhibition coming soon: ‘Allover’ – a photographic journey into 1970s Fair Isle knitwear by Chris Morphet
- The Crafts of Foragers - new display
- Shetland Museum unveils Twenty Shades of Blue in new art exhibition inspired by Shetland’s Seascapes
- New photographic exhibition capturing 1970s social history
- ‘All About Everything’ featuring the creative work of Eric Gray students
- Marion Ninianson’s Roup
- New summer exhibition Ebbe and Flow to open this weekend
- Shetland Amenity Trust celebrates collaboration with Shetland Family History Group in acquiring Gilbert Goudie’s Notebook
- Wonderful woolly evening at the Shetland Museum
- New book of Shetland Fine Lace Knitting launched
- Shining a light on Ann Harriet Pottinger this International Women's Day
- Profound new exhibition, Polar North, captures the fragility of the Arctic landscape
- Shetland Museum and Archives launches series of ‘Thursday Lates’ heritage talks
- Old style islands courtships
- Be My Valentine
- Shetland Museum celebrates Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2024
- A Fragment of Viking-Norse Life
- The Eyjarskeggjar
- Shetland Amenity Trust’s heritage sites open for this year’s Up Helly Aa
- Shetland's War Memorial - constructed by William Horne
- Christmas in Shetland - 1923
- Research project commissioned to encourage locals to grow more aets!
- ‘Logical Confusion’, a retrospective exhibition of Mike McDonnell opens at the Shetland Museum
- New poetry book - ‘Love in Human Herts’
- The funny story behind some of Lerwick's street names
- Film celebrating the achievements of Johnnie Notions launched by Shetland Museum and Archives
- Keep a look out for Skeklers this Halloween
- Pre-school Activity Mornings
- National Poetry Day
- October Holiday Workshops
- Treasure Trove Comes to Shetland
- Bold exhibition featuring photography by legendary Diane Arbus opens at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Shetland Museum and Archives Launches New Online Archive Catalogue
- A celebration of Shetland’s maritime heritage at the museum
- Alanbrooke and the Kearton Brothers
- Preparing for the herring – photos from the archives
- Online Survey: Have your say on our learning and outreach activities
- FILM: Lighthouse Lives
- Summer Maritime Programme
- Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry - taking inspiration from Shetland's herring industry
- Shetland Museum to host ARTIST ROOMS exhibition of legendary American photographer Diane Arbus
- From Shetland to Everest – 70 years on
- Coming soon: An evening with Craig Easton, Fisherwomen and Friends
- Talking Toevakuddis
- Memories from the archives
- Fisherwomen exhibition is now open
- A Royal Display
- Bold new photographic exhibition celebrates the significant role of women in the fishing industry
- Celebrating the Buggiflooer Beanie launch
- The Coronation
- Our bog butter is going 'home' for the season!
- A tribute to Ian Bairnson
- Help shape the future of the past at Old Scatness
- Research team examines Shetland's Hanseatic ceramic collection
- Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2023
- Immersive new art installation pays tribute to Shetland’s wadmal
- First Shetland Heritage Conference a great success
- CLOSED: Friday 12 noon - Sunday 12 noon
- Celebrating World Book Day with Shetland's Oldest Known Book - Boece
- Shetland heritage conference – shaping the future together
- Love letters from the past
- Don't Stop Me Now - Up Helly Aa 2023
- The ‘Harriet’ unveiling honours phenomenal fundraising effort
- New watercolour exhibition at Da Gadderie inspired by the Shetland landscape
- Special UHA 2023 Events and Extended Opening Times
- Festive Opening Hours
- 30th anniversary of the Braer oil disaster
- Shetland Museum and Archives closed
- Straw Crafts Club Update
- End of an era - last orders at tearooms
- Remembering George P.S. Peterson
- Art’s Cool Exhibition Review by Paul Bloomer
- Shipwrecks in Shetland - the latest
- School talent on display in new ‘Art’s Cool’ exhibition in Da Gadderie
- Shetland Museum open evening kicks off traditional straw crafts winter club
- Robert Barclay, East India Company
- New exhibition celebrates the artwork of John Johnson: Hobby Artist at Sea
- Who's afraid of the njuggel?
- Bringing biodiversity and history into the (outdoors) classroom
- October Workshops Programme
- Archaeology is rubbish
- Crofthouse Museum and Shetland Museum closed Monday 19 September
- HRH Queen Elizabeth
- Alexander Wallace
- Archivist Brian Smith receives distinguished service award
- The Elvira
- Shetland Museum closed Saturday (6 Aug) afternoon
- Da Wadder
- Maggie Helen Under Sail
- Finland
- Temporary diversion at the Museum as the Maggie Helen is on the move
- Land of Straw Art Exhibition
- The Laurel
- Join the guest list for BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Shetland's jubilations (Part 2)
- Join our team! Visitor Experience Assistant vacancy
- Shetland's jubilations (Part 1)
- Johnnie Notions Project
- Hay’s Dock by the Dowry now open
- Crofthouse Museum open for the summer
- Restoration work to begin on Maggie Helen at historic Hay's Dock
- Letters on Shetland
- Gunnister Man Coins
- We are hiring - Cultural Heritage Manager
- The Dowry set to open café/restaurant at Shetland Museum’s historic Hay’s Dock
- World Book Day
- Shackleton's Shetland Pallbearers - A Talk
- Highlights from two centuries of Shetland fine knitted lace on display
- 550 Years Ago: how Shetland became part of Scotland - part 2
- A reminiscence of a traditional Shetland wedding
- Shetland Festival of Care 2022 - Tending the Light
- Shetland Museum and Archives reopens to the public
- 550 Years Ago: how Shetland became part of Scotland
- Up Helly Aa - the Venues
- Origins of the Up Helly Aa Song
- Update on temporary closure of Shetland Museum and Archives
- A historical walk to Culsetter
- The New Year, 1872 and the Truck Commission
- A Lerwick Christmas One Hundred Years Ago: 1921
- Shetland Museum and Archives awarded funding for Year of Stories
- Kirk artefacts to be saved by Shetland Museum
- Accounts with Women Labourers
- New exhibition - to excite young readers and art lovers
- The Maiden
- October Holiday Events
- The Tolbooth Jail
- A Day in Bigga
- Floss
- Bold new art exhibition celebrates Shetland nature
- The Fenian Raid on Unst
- Celebrating Volunteers' Week
- We're hiring - Visitor Experience Assistants
- Where is Shetland?
- The real story behind the Shetland wulver
- Witchcraft in Shetland
- Beltane Festival
- Visit the Fair Isle Chairs exhibition from the comfort of your own armchair
- Shetland Footballer - James Hunter Thomson
- The Man Behind the Lowrie Stories
- His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Why burn peats?
- The Bohemian Girl
- Celebrating International Women's Day: Britta Laurenson
- Shetland Amenity Trust reopens Shetland Museum and Archives
- Get Your Skates On!
- A present from Lerwick?
- Why hunt whales?
- St Sunniva's Tableware
- Winter Sports
- Northwest Passage
- Why hunt fowl?
- Missing Crowds
- Up Helly Aa has a most interesting history
- The Shetland Archives - behind the searchroom
- 'Fair Game’ a major new online exhibition launched as part of the Between Islands project
- Museum and Archives to remain closed
- New Baltic ware collection on display for the first time at Shetland Museum
- New winter opening times at the Shetland Museum and Archives
- Fair Isle Chairs on display in Da Gadderie
- Tears of joy and appreciation for peerie hansels
- Unveiling the Shetland War Memorial, 6 January 1924
- Appeal: A Peerie Hansel Fae Hame
- VJ Day in Shetland
- Inspired by Shetland's Historical Textiles
- Peter and Olla
- Shetland Museum and Archives - Reopening Plans
- James A Teit: Tackling racism in the late 1800's
- Captain Lawrence Irvine
- Our commitment to equality, inclusion and diversity
- The adventures of Ninian Neven
- The hundredth birthday of John Alexander Cruickshank
- Face Veils: a Victorian Fashion Accessory for the New Norm?
- Victory in Europe
- Shipwrecks in Shetland Part 2
- Reading in the Archives
- Social Networking in the 1940s
- Da Croon o Da Ura
- Deep into the Past
- Events Postponed
- 80 Year Anniversary of the Radar Station that saved the British Home Fleet in Orkney during WW2
- One Piece at a Time
- Shetland Wool Week 2020 Patron & Hat Pattern Launched
- Shetland Amenity Trust closes key sites
- BBC Radio 4's Any Questions Postponed
- Shetland Boat Week puts out call for traditional boats
- Shipwrecks in Shetland Part 1
- Exciting Line-up for Shetland Boat Week
- 'Men in Tights' - the themes behind the costumes
- Viking Toys and Games
- Shetland Amenity Trust kicks off Up Helly Aa with a series of fiery events
- Memorial Lecture - Viking Genes, Jim Wilson
- Last chance to see Grayson Perry exhibition and hear from leading expert in contemporary art
- The Seductiveness of Fine Knitted Lace Blouses
- Grayson Perry: Behind the Scenes
- Looking back at the history of the 'North Star'
- Festive Events at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Grayson Perry: A Potted Biography - Events and Activities Programme
- Winter Lecture series at Shetland Museum and Archives
- Grayson Perry: A Potted Biography - Opens at Shetland Museum & Archives
- A call for ‘Pre-loved’ leaflets
- Shetland Needleworkers Pieces in Time Exhibition
- A Rose by Any Other Name
- The mystery of the three kirks uncovered
- Two Earls and a Bishop
- Oh So Fine and Simple : the Crepe Shawls
- Your Shetland Wool Week Stories
- Shetland Ponies: Choosing the best from the rest
- Shetland Nature Festival
- Ready, Set, Click!
- The Eagle's Last Stronghold
- ‘The Arthurs’
- The Burnous
- Emma Louise's Coffee Shop opening at Hay's Dock
- Getting ready for the Summer Season
- Drum roll please...
- From this Day Forward – Wedding Exhibition
- Road trip to Orkney
- What's in a name?
- Welcoming tenders for Hay’s Dock Café
- The Fine Detail of Fine Knitted Lace
- Now for the scientific bit….
- The mystery of the three Kirks
- Lace Project Begins
- The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2018
- Holbein Comes to Shetland
- The BIG Takeover - Shetland 2018
- Oasis inspired by Shetland Museum Textile Collection
- Boats on the Move
- Aith Junior High Pupils curate new exhibition at Shetland Museum and Archives
- 10th Birthday Celebrations
- Mathewson Lecture
- Shetland Museum and Archives goes virtual
- Rare and Unique - Shetland's rare book collection
- Littoral Art Project gives pupils a new perspective on beach litter
- Supporting Dementia Friends
- Anniversary Events
- A Summer of Anniversaries
- Shetland Boat Week Launched Today
- New to Us Exhibition
- New Website Launched
- Reid Tait Collection transferred to Shetland Archives
- Photos in a Flash - Instant Photo Printing
- P&O Flag flies at Bod
- Take a Virtual Tour of Fethaland
- BBC Sound Booth comes to Shetland Museum and Archives
- Archaeological Artefacts Return
- Shetland's Sunken Treasure - Unveiled!
- Breaking The Mould
- Essential repairs commence on Nil Desperandum
- Gold Standard Maintained
- Young Ambassador Project
- Writing The North Project Concludes
- ARTIST ROOMS 214 Tour: Don McCullin
- Textiles Collection Announced as Recognised Collection of National Status
- Grant Award for Migration Study
- Shetland Museum & Archives Receives Research Grant
- Writing the North
- Visitor numbers boosted by Divine Cat visit
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