Keep up to date with new stories and details of what our researchers are doing to preserve and promote Shetland's heritage and culture.
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.
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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Shetland Boat Week is asking owners of traditional Shetland boats to bring them to Shetland Museum and Archives for display during ...
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Diving into the past Shetland’s Historic Shipwreck Collections. (Part 1) Shetland has some fascinating historic wreck sites and the ...
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The Shetland Amenity Trust and partners are busy getting organised for Shetland Boat Week 2020.
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Here collections assistant Tracey Hawkins discusses the activities both adults and children enjoyed during Viking times – from ...
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The fiery season is on us and the Shetland Amenity Trust is putting together a series of events as well as offering extended opening ...
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The Shetland Museum and Archives will be presenting their annual memorial lecture next week entitled ‘Viking Genes’ by visiting ...
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To mark the close of the remarkable ‘Grayson Perry - A Potted Biography’ ceramic exhibition this Saturday 11 January, Director of ...
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