Contractors are not the only ones who have been hard at work on the redevelopment of the Scapa Flow Museum - local pupils from North Walls Community School have been undergoing training with a range of professionals to help them fulfil the role of Junior Curators at the Museum when it reopens.

This month has seen the Council’s Museums team welcome Nick Hewitt as Team Leader - Nick already has a special link with some of Scapa Flow Museum's most significant artefacts - read on!

Local contractors Heddle Construction and Orkney Builders Contractors Ltd have successfully eased 100-year old naval guns from their plinths at the Scapa Flow Museum under the watchful eye of the Council’s Museums team.

Sharp-eyed folk passing the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum at Lyness next week may see the unusual sight of big guns flying through the air.

A Museum charting how the remote island of Hoy in Orkney became the hub of the UK’s largest Naval base in WWI and II is working with local school children to fire the imagination of young people who visit, as it undergoes extensive refurbishment.