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Research team examines Shetland's Hanseatic ceramic collection

March 14th 2023

During the global pandemic, we saw the impact that change and disruption caused to international trade and supply of goods, but it was ...

April 1st 2022

Over 70 years after his discovery in a Northmavine peat bog, Gunnister Man continues to intrigue. Last week Shetland Museum curator, ...

May 6th 2021

We're all familiar with calendar customs. Those we have in Shetland today (with one notable exception in late January!) are identical ...

March 22nd 2021

As part of the Between Islands project, Shetland’s new online exhibition, ‘Fair Game’ examines three customs that are now ...

February 15th 2021

Some artefacts are interesting for what they tell us, and others are simply nice to look at. Here's one that's both. On the face of ...

February 15th 2021

Pilot whales were important to islanders’ survival, providing many useful products. Subsistence whaling was unpredictable, because ...

January 28th 2020

December 4th 2019

We caught up with Curator of the Shetland Museum and Archives, Dr Ian Tait, to find out just what's involved in bringing the work of a ...