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The Museum and Archives is managed by the Shetland Amenity Trust, a small charity caring for Shetland's natural and cultural heritage. It is free to visit the Museum and Archives and here we share our work with you through our blogs and news. Donations are welcomed to help the Trust care for the collections and our heritage both now and in the future.
Archivist Brian Smith delves into the incredible story of his ten-times great grandfather the accomplished and unruly Ninian Neven. ...
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Today, a rather special one, John Alexander Cruickshank, has his hundredth birthday. He is now the last living Victoria Cross holder ...
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Women, and sometimes children and men, have been covering their heads and faces in public since ancient times. Not so very long ago ...
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Shetland took the news of the end of the war in Europe in much the same way as the rest of Britain, a mixture of relief, reflection, ...
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Shetland has some fascinating historic wreck sites and the remains greatly enhance our knowledge and understanding of international ...
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The Shetland Archives has an extensive collection of manuscripts, books, oral history recordings, maps and many other types of ...
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Anyone reading this blog is used to sharing information and connecting with people online. We take it for granted that, if we want to ...
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One of Shetland’s more remarkable archaeological sites is Da Croon o Da Ura, in Unst, just about the most northerly part of the ...
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I have always been amazed by Mother Nature since I was a child. The shapes, the colours, and the phenomena which surround us are ...
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The Shetland Amenity Trust have announced that its key annual events will all be postponed until next year. Due to the current ...
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The significance of the Radar Station at Sumburgh Head cannot be overestimated. Exactly 80 years ago today this Station was ...
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From teapots to lepidoptera, there is a place for objects, large or small, in Shetland’s Museum and Archives’ collection. Here, ...
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The Shetland Wool Week patron for 2020 has been named today as Shetland knitwear designer, Wilma Malcolmson, who is internationally ...
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The Shetland Museum and Archives and the Shetland Amenity Trust’s head offices at Garthspool, Lerwick have today closed to the ...
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The BBC have taken the decision to postpone their ‘Any Questions’ event until later in the year.
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