We've been short-listed

for the National Lottery Awards Best Heritage Project and now we need your help.

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Appeal for items for hamefarin exhibition

Did you or your ancestors emigrate from Shetland?  Shetland Museum and Archives are developing a special exhibition for the 2010 Hamefarin and need your help.

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College student designs new product for Museum and Archives shop

The St Ninian’s Snood, designed and made by local student Angela Irvine, combines traditional fine lace knitting with contemporary fashion to produce a range of highly decorative lace and bead hats. Now for sale in the Museum & Archives.

Focus Display - Walter Scott's Herbarium

Walter Scott collected a total of 888 plant specimens from all over the islands and from all habitats. This display, located in the lower gallery, features samples from this vital archive and reference collection.

Interesting item

This weather vane was awarded by famous London Restaurateur, Madame Prunier, to the Jessie Sinclair, as it was the boat with the largest catch of herring during the 1954 East-Anglian season.

New archive collection

These volumes, containing copies of thousands of letters by John Tait, are of special interest as they contain letters to his son James Alexander, who emigrated to Canada and became a well-known ethnographer and friend of Indians.

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Focus Display - Preacher, postman, soldier, seaman

Located outside the archives, this display showcases recent donations to the Archives, including diaries, school log books, postcards, pharmacy ledgers and correspondence all of which document various aspects of life in Shetland.