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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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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A Small Norwegian Town: Kirkwall in the Middle Ages St Magnus Cathedral. Raymond Parks. This map from 1766 shows the Peerie Sea linked to Kirkwall Bay with Kirkwall extending along its eastern shore. Orkney Library & Archive. A small Norwegian town grew up in medieval times on a group of islands. It was on almost
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Model Ship from Jack Webster Social History Curator Ellen Pesci with the model of a Tribal Class destroyer. A recent donation to the Orkney Museum has a hidden story that we would like to try to find out more about. Bill Webster has donated a model of a Tribal Class destroyer, which his father, Jack
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Between Islands Project: Latest Updates, Sam Macdonald interview Alex Macdonald, coordinator of the Between Islands Project writes: Sam has both Orcadian and Hebridean family roots, and having grown up in Lewis, moved to Orkney where he taught art for many years. He now works solely as a sculptor and lives in Perthshire. [Sam has also
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 3, Part 2. Von Reuter’s Dilemma SMS Friedrich der Grosse, von Reuter’s original flagship. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter. German postcard pf a photograph taken onboard SMS Friedrich der Grosse, with SMS Baden in the background. Von Reuter’s Dilemma Von Reuter
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 3, Part 1. John Tulloch’s Account SMS Kaiser in Scapa Flow. Orkney Library & Archive. The battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow. John Tulloch’s Eyewitness Account John Tulloch was a small boy living on the island of Cava in Scapa Flow
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