World War I – Air and U-Boat Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. The Royal Navy built air stations and kite balloon stations to provide the Grand Fleet with aerial intelligence. Houton Air Station, with the interned German Fleet in the distance. […]
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World War I – Vanguard, Opal, Narbourgh Another tragedy struck the fleet at Scapa Flow the following year. On 9 July 1917 HMS Vanguard was lost when her magazines exploded whilst the ship was peacefully at anchor. 843 men lost their lives. The launch of HMS Vanguard, 22nd February 1909. HMS Vanguard, a 19,560 ton
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The Newark Project, 2019-2022 Newark Bay, Deerness. The Newark Project Storm damage to sandbags at Newark Bay. You may also find this Deerness site of interest too. http://www.deernessorkney.co.uk/index.php/friends-of-st-ninians Photography courtesy of Sarah Brunea. Stay connected to Orkney Museum for the latest news, stories, exhibitions, events and visitor information. Join The Mailing List
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Corrigall Farm Museum, Harray Outside Corrigall Farm Museum Author [Brian Flett] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. The barn, with the round kiln on the
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World War I – Introduction Map of Scapa Flow by Murdoch Mackenznie, 1750 Scapa Flow consists of 125 square miles (324 square kilometres) of water surrounded by islands. Used as a safe anchorage since Viking times, its military use began during the Napoleonic Wars. The Vikings named it Skalpaflói – the bay of the long
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New Connections Across the Northern Isles [Author, Tom Muir] Daisy, an Orkney South Isles Yole The Orkney and Shetland Museums worked together on a project that celebrated the maritime heritage of both island groups. The project was put together by Catherine McCullagh and involved local heritage groups, enthusiast and the Orkney resident Shetland born artist,
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Working Stone [Author: Tom Muir] The 2017 summer exhibition at the Orkney Museum, ‘Conversations with Magic Stones’, was the culmination of a project that researched Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age stone artefacts and the collectors from Orkney who gathered them. The project was led by Professor Mark Edmunds and Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Ann Clark and
Mizzle and strife and all things nice [Author: Clare Gee] It all started with a nose bleed. A scary nosebleed that would not stop. A friend drove me to A&E at the Balfour where it did eventually stop and I went home again and tried to make sure it didn’t happen again. It was the
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Orkney’s Iron Age Hood The woollen hood found in a Tankerness peat-moss in the 19th century has been found to date to the Late Iron Age, thanks to carbon dates obtained by the National Museum of Scotland. It seems to have been made sometime between the third and seventh centuries AD. The replica Orkney Hood in
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Carved wooden crucifixion plaque from St Magnus Cathedral Dr. Alison Sheridan of National Museums Scotland visited the Orkney Museum to undertake a condition assessment of artefacts on loan from NMS ahead of our Medieval Gallery refurbishment. The note begins just as Principle Gordon’s article in Archaeologia Scotica (1972, Volume 1, pages 256-268) reads: “In this cathedral
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