copyright Caterina Turroni and Lion TV Professor Mary Beard To Open Ness Of Brodgar Exhibition This summer’s flagship Ness of Brodgar exhibition at the Orkney Museum will be officially opened by Professor Mary Beard next month. Mary is an Emerita Professor and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS, with […]
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A quick note to advise Kirbuster Museum will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 27 March, for more work on the new shop. And it will also be closed Sunday 31 March. For those visiting or new to Orkney, Kirbuster Museum is the last un-restored example of a traditional ‘Firehoose’ in Northern Europe. The house has a
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Joseph Sloan Artist’s Prints The Orkney Museum’s gift shop has a unique collection of prints for sale, but hurry as numbers are limited. The wood engravings by Joseph Sloan are a limited edition of original artists’ prints from the 1977 book ‘A Faraway World: an Orkney Boyhood’ by W. Towrie Cutt. Joseph Sloan The book
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Three of Orkney’s council-run cultural heritage attractions have been awarded a 2023 Traveller’s Choice Award by TripAdvisor. The Orkney Museum, Scapa Flow Museum and St Magnus Cathedral have all been recognised in the awards, which celebrate attractions that have consistently received great reviews on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months. The awards place the three
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Walter Traill Dennison’s Donation: Part 2 Walter Traill Dennison’s great-grandson, Duncan MacLaren, with Orkney Museum curator Ellen Pesci displaying a fob watch belonging to Walter’s father. In part 1 we looked at some of the artefacts belonging to the writer and folklorist, Walter Traill Dennison (1825-94) that had been kindly donated by his great-grandson, Duncan
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Walter Traill Dennison’s Donation: Part 1 Walter Traill Dennison’s great-grandson, Duncan MacLaren, with Orkney Museum curator Ellen Pesci displaying a fob watch belonging to Walter’s father. When it comes to Orkney’s folklore and folk tales there really is only one true master. No, not me, I merely follow in the footsteps of the great man.
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The Newark Project: the story so far. Summer exhibition 2022 The summer exhibition for 2022 was meant to have coincided with the finish of the Newark Project, looking at the eroding cemetery in Deerness, which was in use from around 600-1400 AD. Originally excavated by Don Brothwell from the Natural History Museum in London between
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Sylvia Hays, “An Unappropriated World”: Recent Paintings. Orkney Museum 6th-27th November 2021 Sylvia Hays exhibition provided a much needed splash of colour to a dull, November morning. These photographs do not do the paintings justice, but they give you an idea of what there is to be seen. Below is her artist’s statement. Sylvia Hays
A Family Ba’ Reunion On Saturday 14th August we had a special visitor to the Orkney Museum. Katrina Clitherow is the granddaughter of Barbara Clitherow, nee Yule, the winner of the first Women’s Ba’ on Christmas Day 1945. When Barbara passed away in 1999 it was her wish that her Ba’ should return to Orkney. Her
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Orkney Coat of Arms Old Seal – Community of Orkney ‘Communitas Orcadie’ An impression of the ancient seal of the ‘Communitas Orcadie’, c1425. It shows the Norwegian Royal Arms being supported by two men. These figures are likely to be ‘Best Men’, members of the Orcadian aristocracy who would have sat in the public law
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