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Shetland's Weather Signs: Birds, Clouds and Borrowing Days
The last three days of March are known as Shetland’s Borrowing Days. According to folklore, the weather on each of these days offers ...
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Opening Highlights: Outwith Exhibition in Pictures
Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay is now open at Shetland Museum and Archives running until 20 June 2026.
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Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda’s Whalsay story brought to life in new exhibition at Shetland Museum and Archives
Shetland Museum and Archives will open its new exhibition ‘Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay’ to the public this Saturday (28 ...
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Easter Holiday Events
Join us this Easter for a special programme of family activities inspired by our upcoming exhibition Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and ...
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A Tribute to Wendy Gear
The life and work of Wendy Gear reveal how a single family story - rooted in loss, memory, and the upheavals of 19th-century Shetland ...
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Celebrating Valda Grieve this International Women’s Day
Valda was an incomer to Whalsay in 1933, when she moved there with her young son Michael to join her husband. Born in Cornwall in ...
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Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay - Event Programme
The story of Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda in Whalsay continues to inspire nearly a century on. Discover their legacy through a vibrant ...
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We are hiring!
If you’re passionate about Shetland’s cultural heritage and want to make a real difference helping to protect, celebrate and share ...
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Terms of Endearment
February, so far dim and wet, but also the Valentine month, perhaps a chance to seek warmth outwith the weather. Cards and flowers, ...
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Rare Fair Isle smoking cap
We have recently accepted this knitted smoking cap into the collection. It’s a wonderful blend of Victoriana and Shetland design!
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Up Helly Aa 2026 at the museum
What a day - Up Helly Aa always brings an incredible atmosphere, and this year was no exception.
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The Telegrams - Up Helly Aa
Lyndon Nicolson, Guizer Jarl, in the person of Knut the Great, visited the Museum and Archives yesterday. It was a fine occasion, ...
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Up Helly Aa in pictures (1906 - 61)
A series of Archival photographs documenting Up Helly Aa at five-year intervals from 1906 to 1961, recording galleys, Guizer Jarls and ...
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New exhibition celebrates gifted Shetland craftsman, Bobby Simpson
A special exhibition celebrating the life and crafting skills of Robert Gilbert Blance Simpson (1928 – 1974) opens at Shetland ...
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Up Helly Aa 2026 - what's on at the Shetland Museum
Join us at the Shetland Museum & Archives as we celebrate Up Helly Aa 2026 with extended opening times, Origins of UHA tours, a food ...
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