Gareth Squire | 22nd April 2025
Stromness Museum holds a collection of 400 specimens of pressed seaweed collected between 1839 and 1962 by several key Orcadian naturalists. These specimens are a vital source of information for science and are an important historical record and archive.
Sheila Garson | 7th April 2025
Stromness Museum's 2025-26 temporary exhibition is on the theme of renewable energy in Orkney.
Stromness Museum | 20th November 2024
Local historian Bryce Wilson has been honoured with the title of Curator Emeritus by Stromness Museum trustees, recognising over 40 years of dedicated service to th
Janette Park | 23rd October 2024
In September 2022 Cree beadwork artist, Cynthia Boehm visited Orkney, held a beadworking workshop and gave a talk in Stromness.
Ruairidh McCallum | 3rd November 2023
I have visited Stromness almost every year of my life and yet I had never visited the Museum until the summer of 2023.
| 17th October 2023
Double win for Stromness Museum with ‘Climate Cafés’ initiative taking the Calling Out Climate Change award and Excellence in Interpretation at the AHI 2023 Engaging People Awards
Stromness Museum | 13th June 2023
Museum’s community ‘climate cafes’ shortlisted for AHI 2023 Engaging People Award.
Anna Tallach | 7th February 2023
Learn to make a right use of your eyes; the commonest things are worth looking at – even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals.
| 9th March 2022
Guest blog from Mary Grieve from the Mòti collective.
The ‘Mòti at the Museum’ exhibition opens 30th March 2022 and runs until 30th April 2022.
Louise Barrington | 22nd February 2022
Guest blog from Louise Barrington from the Mòti collective.
