Exciting new loans at Orkney Museum

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 of a loan of nearly 100 objects from National Museums Scotland, including a pair of bronze ‘tortoise’ brooches from the Broch of Gurness and a gold ring from the Stenness hoard.
 
The redevelopment of our Iron Age and Viking Galleries, and the loan of these items, would not have been possible without the generous bequest from our benefactor, for which we are extremely grateful.
 
The Groundwater Galleries reopen on Saturday, the 1st of November, and we’re looking forward to welcoming visitors in to see them.
 
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