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.
Click on the 'What's On Calendar' above to view monthly listings
For online bookings visit Shetland Museum Box Office
Pre-school Activity Mornings (Thursdays)
Auditorium, Shetland Museum and Archives
Bring your little explorers to the Shetland Museum & Archives for our heritage-filled fun sessions, designed especially for under 5's. Join us every Thursday from 10am to 12pm as we explore a new and exciting theme each week.
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Shetland Museum Socials - drop-in
2:00pm - 3:30pm
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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Whalers' Memory Bank Workshops 11 & 12 May
10:30am - 4:00pm
Shetland Museum and Archives
Help shape one of the biggest untold stories in Scottish social history. South Georgia Heritage Trust and the South Georgia Trust have launched a project called The Whalers' Memory Bank and are seeking help from former whalers and their families. They will be running a series of workshops at the museum on Sat 11 & Sun 12 May.
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How did the witch-hunt end? Explaining two late Shetland witchcraft cases with John Shaw
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Shetland Museum & Archives
The witch-hunt broke in waves over most European countries during the later 16th and 17th centuries. Witch-hunts were not continuous. They rose and fell in peaks and troughs of prosecutions before finally coming to a halt in the late 17th and early 18th century. Most historical investigations try to explain why witchcraft accusations happened and how witch-hunts proceeded. In his lecture John Shaw offers an explanation as to why the witch-hunt in Scotland came to an end. Was it a result of a change in social life, in religious belief, in legal practice or the rise of rationalism?
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