Shetland Museum & Archives

Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1–7 June each year. It’s an opportunity to recognise the incredible contribution volunteers make to our communities and to say a heartfelt thank you. At Shetland Museum & Archives, we are fortunate to have three wonderful volunteers who have been supporting collections work in our store week after week. Between them, they have dedicated ...

Join us on Saturday 20 June for three special events marking the close of Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay.

Jenny, our Curator of Archaeology, has been busy this month repacking our human remains collection with Dr Jess Thompson from National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. We do not actively collect human remains at Shetland Museum and Archives, but we do have collections from previous excavations, which span from the Neolithic at Sumburgh cist to the Medieval period and later, such a...

Shetland Museum and Archives is marking the Royal Scottish Academy’s 200th anniversary with a special new exhibition celebrating the connections between Shetland and some of Scotland’s most respected artists.