Stromness Museum

02/06/2026

Our Chair Anne Shorter was on BBC Radio Orkney this morning talking about our Unlocking Potential funding award from Museums Galleries Scotland 📻 “The trustees are really delighted that we’ve been given a grant to help us work out how we can make Stromness Museum better!” 🔗 listen from 3.30 mins in: https://shorturl.at/WS4fI

01/06/2026

Very happy to share that Stromness Museum is an awardee of Museum Futures funding!

31/05/2026

After a lovely mention in yesterday that described Stromness Museum as “an old school treasure trove”, we’re sharing one of the objects that was a highlight for journalist Phoebe Taplin: a pair of snowshoes ❄️ Read the article here: https://shorturl.at/q5juA

30/05/2026

We’re in a feature about car-free Orkney sightseeing in The Guardian! 🗞️ “Stromness Museum….is an old-school treasure trove. Exhibits cover 5,000 years, from a rare neolithic figurine to Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown’s rocking chair. There are harpoons and snowshoes, painted chests and carved whalebones. In a glass case of Victorian stuffed birds, I’m finally able to ID the colourful birds I’ve seen…”

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A new cap on bus fares in the Highlands and islands makes exploring this stunning archipelago in Scotland a breeze

28/05/2026

At around four and a half thousand years old, Buddo is entering their blue period! Our bone china Buddo mugs featuring the Neolithic figurine are now available in turquoise as well as ochre, from our shop and online at: https://shorturl.at/ZERvK

Designed by Orcadian illustrator Iain Ashman, they’re guaranteed to add a spoonful of cheer to your cuppa! 🫖

27/05/2026

The Cloud Appreciation Society are in Stromness this week, and have been getting crafty with a cyanotype workshop on our pier. ⛅️

24/05/2026

There’s treasures to be found directly outside as well as inside Stromness Museum! 🎨

Beach combing at Stromness in my sketchbook

As long as there’s something to find we’ll always look for the washed up treasure.

Explore my art https://www.mallettspallette.co.uk/

Thanks for the support

23/05/2026

Look who cycled to Stromness Museum! 🚲 Timmy Mallett is a big fan of the arctic explorer Dr John Rae.

23/05/2026

Welcome to Orkney Timmy Mallett, we hope you're having an utterly brilliant cycling adventure! Please don't use our sailmaker's mallet to bonk people on the head with, it could end badly.

22/05/2026

Tickets are now available for Museum Tours this summer. Enjoy Stromness Museum guided by one of our team. Connect with people from our past through the stories behind the artefacts. Tours are scheduled each Tue and Wed from June, for groups of 2-8 people at £20 per head. 🎟️ Book online at: https://www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/whatson/2026/book-museum-tour