Curlew taxidermy specimen.
It's also #worldcurlewday today, which gives us a chance to showcase recent bird collection work by our Natural History Collections Assistant Dr. Gareth Squire & photographer Rebecca Marr. They've photographed 4,500 specimens so far this year! The images will on our online catalogue soon.
Dr Antonia Thomas is chairing a panel at the EARTH Scholarships Impact Symposium in Glagow tomorrow, Wednesday.
White glazed Stromness teaset with blue Per Mare crest decoration and Souvenir: cup + saucer with arms of Burgh of Stromness. "Florentine China".
We hear it’s #nationalteaday, which we find is best served in a Stromness ‘Per Mare’ (‘by the sea’) tea set 🫖 ☕️
People litter picking at Garson Shore in Stromness.
People litter picking at Garson Shore in Stromness.
People litter picking at Garson Shore in Stromness.
Huge thanks to everyone who helped us Bag the Bruck with Greener Orkney on Sunday afternoon, picking up harmful litter from Garson Shore, Stromness. 11 folk helped us gather 13 black bags full of waste!
Join us tomorrow for Bag the Bruck at Garson Shore, Stromness at 3-5pm ♻️
Taxidermy Puffin standing on rock with egg between its feet. Black and white bird famous for its colourful beak.
Happy #WorldPuffinDay! Puffins are known locally as "tammie norries” and arrive at their breeding colonies in Orkney from late April to August. May and June are the best puffin-spotting months.
Engraving of a puffin, standing in side profile on the edge of a cliff by water.
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the puffins, for today is their special day!
To celebrate World Puffin Day, here is an engraving of a puffin from 'Animated Nature Vol. 2' (1821) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#WorldPuffinDay #PuffinDay #RareBooks
Thanks to all who came to the #Shooglyholm floating sculpture launch. After a speech by artist Jenny Pope, songs by Sarah Jane Gibbon and Emma Grieve and poetry by Silus Dowdy the sculpture was attached to its mooring by Mark Shiner and Flo Ungaro.
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Orange buoy with Shoogly Holm written on it with permanent marker.
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Join us TODAY at 3pm at Stromness Museum pier for the Launch of the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture. Everyone’s welcome, expect a chat about the project, singing, a poem or two and cake, and to see the sculpture up close. 🌊 🍰 🎶 #stromness #resilience #climatecrisis #floatingsculpture
That’s terrifying! Were they trying to scare kids out of making hoax calls?!
Join us for the #shooglyholm floating sculpture launch this Sunday 12 April at 3pm on Stromness Museum pier. There’ll be sharing, singing, reciting and feasting! 🌊🎶🥃 🍰
Thank goodness for that….
Edit: whoops! The last exhibition day is actually Saturday 18 April 2026.
Edit: whoops! The last exhibition day is actually Saturday 18 April 2026.
Green Hydrogen car parked on the end of a road with a grass verge behind it. A stationery helicopter can be seen beyond it on the horizon. Colour photo taken at the H2Orkney Conference 2006 in Stronsay by Ian Cooper.
Set your SatNav to Stromness Museum while the Powered by People exhibition telling Orkney's Renewable Energy story is still on display, until Sun 19 April 2026: shorturl.at/OqPzu
🕰️ We're open 10am-5pm on Mon-Sat & 11am-4pm on Sun.
📷 Hydrogen car, 2006 in Stronsay, photo by Ian Cooper.
Colour photo grid of 10 single Orkney birds eggs against a black background.
Happy Easter! 🐣 We're open until 4pm today and 10am-5pm Easter Monday.
🪺 We have many Orkney birds' eggs, collected by Victorian collectors and past members of the Orkney Natural History Society. Collecting was popular into the 20th century, but collecting wild birds' eggs became illegal in 1954.
Colour photo: Hydrogen racing car at the Renewable Realities Conference 2023 in Stromness. A laughing lady sits inside a small red and white racing car on the road outside Stromness Academy School, surrounded by several smiling onlookers.
🏎️ Race on over to Stromness Museum while Powered by People is still on display. Our exhibition telling Orkney’s Renewable Energy Story is here until Sun 19 April 2026: shorturl.at/OqPzu
⏲️ We're open 10am-5pm on Mon-Sat & 11am-4pm on Sun.
🐣 Open as usual on Easter Sun & Easter Mon.
Now craving an emotional support lamb, as well as more rooms!
We need more Emily-focused content! 😍
Intricate black and white cityscape
This year, various exhibitions in Scotland call attention to the climate crisis.
Read how Scottish artists are confronting a fragile future 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/after-t...
🧑🎨 Ade Adesina (b.1980) © the artist. 📷 RSA
Tempted to say, "Get a room." But you've already got one.
No but Orkney Fudge & Tablet is made locally, which is delicious... www.jollysoforkney.co.uk/collections/...
Orkney voles have made it into The Guardian's Week in Wildlife...
Boxes: Anvil Caramels tin and Cadburys cocoa essence box
🍫 😋
Orkney Natural History Society secret voting wooden box with two options: AYE or NO
We have a similar one! 🗳️ And aye, we will be scoffing Easter eggs this Easter! 🐣
Graphic that reads: STROMNESS ENERGY SAFARI. A UNIQUE PUZZLE-SOLVING WALKING TRAIL THAT REVEALS STROMNESS’ EXTRAORDINARY ROLE IN THE STORY OF ENERGY - SOLVE PUZZLES, UNCOVER HIDDEN FACTS AND FIND UNIQUE RUNES. AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE AT STROMNESS MUSEUM TRAIL COSTS £3. CAN YOU COMPLETE THE TRAIL AND CRACK THE CODE?
Get out and about this Easter holiday with our Stromness Energy Safari! 🐣 Puzzle-solvers of all ages can walk the trail to discover Stromness’ incredible energy story and become certified Stromness Energy Explorers. Guides are in our shop for £3 each. Happy hunting! 🔍 ⚡️ 🥾
ℹ️: shorturl.at/tbTL6.
Join Culture for Climate Scotland for a local assembly centred on community, connection and resilience. With a range of collaborators, facilitators and speakers to build strong community networks for creative climate action!
More details and tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/cultu...
Poster that reads: Shoogly Holm Floating Sculpture Launch Event. Sunday 12 April at 3pm th Stromness Museum Join artist Jenny Pope to launch the sculpture with cake, poetry, song and a toast. Stromness Museum, 52 Albert St, Stromness KW16 3DH Tel: 01856 850025 / Email: custodian@stromnessmuseum.org.uk www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk
The #ShooglyHolm mooring, an underwater hotel welcoming Stromness sea-life since last autumn, will be topped with a floating sculpture designed by artist Jenny Pope during an uplifting launch event on the Stromness Museum pier, on Sun 12 Apr at 3pm. ℹ️: shorturl.at/CE1EH
An Orkney Vole sits nibbling a blade of grass
📢 Some great news from Orkney!
A new report shows Orkney Vole abundance last spring was the highest it's been since efforts to remove invasive non-native stoats began.
This small, elusive vole is found nowhere else and is threatened by the arrival of stoats (in 2010).
📷: Adam Hough
