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Shetland's strong sense of identity shows itself through the network of Community Museums, Heritage Centres and History Groups to be found all over the islands. Their diverse and intriguing breadth of collections are a showcase to Shetland's long, interesting and complex past.
A number of these organisations have come together to form the Shetland Heritage Association (SHA), in order to facilitate and support heritage provision in Shetland.
Shetland Amenity Trust supports this extensive network of heritage organisations in various ways: by providing financial assistance, premises and working on collaborative projects in the field of place name studies and archaeology. The Trust also publishes a suite of interpretive leaflets, both geographic and thematic, which promote Heritage facilities throughout Shetland.
Through the Museum and Archives service they also provide:
- A Heritage Hub for Shetland - encouraging visitors to explore the islands further and see first hand what other heritage organisations have to offer.
- Facilities for heritage organisations to use.
- A Community Museums Officer to liase with local organisations.
- Curatorial advice to community museums.
- Items from their collections for display at other registered local museums.
- Exploration of joint training initiatives.
- Unkans - a heritage community newsletter.
Shetland Amenity Trust has recently developed a Shetland Heritage and Culture brand, which can be applied throughout the heritage and cultural community. This brand has been piloted through the Trust's activities and is now available to any Shetland heritage and/or cultural organisation to use.
This branding can be applied to interpretive materials, such as signage, publications, websites and interpretive panels. It has been designed in a way that it can either be used as the main brand on these materials or as a sub brand alongside any existing brand/logos. It is hoped this initiative will help to raise the profile of Shetland's heritage and culture and become a recognisable symbol through which visitors can negotiate the impressive network of Shetland sites and services.
Local groups or organisations wishing to find out more about branding can contact the Shetland Amenity Trust on 01595 694688.
Community Museum News
Photos on show at mill (April 2008)
THE QUENDALE Mill is to display a series of photographs taken in 2006 during a community art project.
Queen of Norway pays tribute to brave seamen at Scalloway (June 2007)
AFTER attending the opening of the new Shetland Museum, Queen Sonja of Norway parted company from the British royals for a visit to Scalloway. [more...]
Textile museum celebrates success (September 2006)
THE TRUSTEES of Shetland Textile Working Museum and members of the Spinners, Weavers and Knitters Guild gathered recently to welcome other guests and celebrate another successful exhibition held at the Textile Museum at Weisdale Mill. [more...]
Dellin inta da past... (July 2006)
IT HARDLY seems possible that the archaeologists working at both Old Scatness and in Unst have come to the end of their 2006 season of excavation. [more...]
Easthouse Crofthouse (June 2006)
EASTHOUSE crofthouse is now open to the public after undergoing extensive restoration. [more...]
KEEPING THOSE WAR MEMORIES ALIVE (August 2005)
WHEN Andy Robertson returned from active service in south east Asia to his native Shetland in September 1946, he could not know how deeply the war experience was to form his personality and his later life. [more...]
BOBBY'S MEMORIAL UNVEILED (July 2005)
AROUND 100 people gathered in the warm sunshine at the Old Haa, Burravoe, on Saturday morning for the unveiling of a memorial to the late Bobby Tulloch, a man renowned for his love and knowledge of wildlife, especially birds. [more...]
NORSE BROOCH GOES ON DISPLAY (April 2005)
THE NORSE brooch unearthed by Channel 4's Time Team in late August 2002 will be on display in Fetlar museum from tomorrow until the museum closes at the end of September. [more...]
EXHIBITION TELLS THE STORY OF WOMEN AT WAR (April 2005)
THIS year Shetland Textile Museum is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two with an exhibition - Shetland Women in Wartime 1939-1945. [more...]
Click on the location of the museums to visit their websites
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