Between Islands Project: Native Tongue Alex Macdonald, coordinator of the Between Islands Project writes: Just to say that our latest Between Islands short film is now online. It features poetry on the subject of our native languages, and many thanks to Roseanne Watt, Kevin Macneil, Alison Miller and Calum Fraser for taking the time to […]
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 3, Part 4 HMS Vega HMS Vega. 1st Battle Squadron in April 1915. A much larger force than Vice Admiral Fremantle commanded in 1919, his squadron comprised the battleships Revenge, Resolution, Ramillies, Royal Oak and Royal Sovereign. 1st Battle Squadron in
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Why, Where and How?: Investigating small mammals remains – Part 2 An Orkney vole. A word of introduction for Part 2 By Andrzej A. Romaniuk (PhD in archaeology, MSc in osteoarchaeology) This blog post follows directly Why, Where and How?: Investigating small mammals remains PART 1. In the first part I explained a little bit about
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Why, Where and How?: Investigating small mammals remains – Part 1 An Orkney vole. A word of introduction for Part 1 By Andrzej A. Romaniuk (PhD in archaeology, MSc in osteoarchaeology) Having a chance from the Orkney Museum, I would like to present here a blog entry about my PhD research. While the results have
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Rare Orkney Chair We are resuming more regular blog posts once again, now that the summer exhibition about Newark is up and running and the new Scapa Flow Museum has opened its doors to the public. Towards the end of last year we were offered a very special Orkney chair, made by the man who
Beside the Ocean of Time: The Centenary of George Mackay Brown [Tom] The Orkney poet, George Mackay Brown, was born in Stromness on 17th October 1921. This, being his centenary year, the Orkney Museum are celebrating his life and work in the exhibition, ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’, named after his last novel. I thought
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Inspired by the Huntscarth Clothing, Orkney Museum. Poems by Lydia Harris The Orkney Museum is not only the islands’ treasure house that holds precious artefacts from prehistory and historical times, but is also a valuable resource for creativity. Many pieces have been reproduced as jewellery, artists sketch them, musicians drawn on a story as inspiration
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Hoy and Walls Wartime Trail The Hoy and Walls Wartime Trail was written by Ian Collins and Gavin Lindsay and is available as a leaflet at Orkney museums and other places. To get the information to as many people as possible it is being published here, online so that everyone can see it and learn
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GEORGE EDWARD MANNERS DSM – A NAVAL HISTORY – by Mary Grace Manners George Manners. [Tom Muir] I received a message from Mary Manners about her father’s war record, and a piece of World War II history that is not well known these days. I suggested that she send me any information and images that
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The Swan Sketchbooks: John Cumming, 5th April – 29th May 2021 Giddek. The work for this show has been significantly influenced by circumstances during the past year. Denied the opportunity to travel and research subjects, I turned instead to the sketchbooks I have filled over the past decade. Sketches which might have become prints or
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