Exciting new loans at Orkney Museum We’re excited to share that for the first time in over 35 years, the Burray Hoard, Orkney’s second largest Viking Age hoard, will be on display in Orkney Museum.Discovered in 1889, it hoard dates to 1000 AD, and contains nearly 2kg of silver. Items from the hoard form a part […]
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Orkney’s deep Viking history as an enduring power base for early Norse explorers and rulers has been brought to life in new galleries at The Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. Featuring the UK’s first AI-powered Viking character, Ragna, created by Interpretation Designers Rocketbox Design, the galleries chart the Norse past of Orkney – from the earliest
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In 2014 a collection of paintings by Norwegian artist Hakon Gullvag was brought to Orkney and displayed in St Magnus Cathedral as part of the St Magnus International Festival. Paintings for a Cathedral, on a religious theme, had originally been commissioned for Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway, which had once been the archdiocese to which
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Annular is a work by local Orkney artist Evie Donaldson. It was first shown in St Magnus Cathedral in June 2023 as part of the St Magnus International Festival event called Solstice: Dark and Light. The event featured musicians playing in various parts of the cathedral, as the audience moved between them. There was a
According to his service record, Arthur William Sartin was born on 4 August 1877, in Preston, Weymouth, Dorset. However, that date doesn’t tally with birth and baptism records, which suggest he was born in 1880, in Blandford Forum, Dorset. He joined the Navy in 1897, with his basic training taking place at Portsmouth in HMS
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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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