News - Scapa Flow Museum
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23 June 2022
Redeveloped Scapa Flow Museum shortlisted for award
Orkney Islands Council’s Scapa Flow Museum has been shortlisted for a national industry award.
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17 June 2022
Scapa Flow Museum 'Favourite Object' blog - a sign with a sad story - Nick Hewitt
Scapa Flow Museum 'Favourite Object' blog - Nick Hewitt
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23 December 2021
Sneak peek at Scapa Flow Museum's Virtual Reality installation
The scale and spectacle of the Royal Navy’s largest base during the World Wars is being brought to life in a new virtual reality display at the Scapa Flow Museum in Orkney.
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9 December 2021
It's personal - Ellen's links with Scapa Flow Museum
Ellen Pesci is Curator of social history with the Council's Museums team. Here she talks about her special links with Scapa Flow Museum, both with the historic Pumphouse where her grandfather worked…
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2 December 2021
North Walls pupils graduate as Junior Curators for Scapa Flow Museum
Contractors are not the only ones who have been hard at work on the redevelopment of the Scapa Flow Museum.
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30 November 2021
Museums team welcomes Nick
This month has seen the Council’s Museums team welcome Nick Hewitt as Team Leader.
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30 November 2021
Labour of love as 100 year old naval guns are dismantled for conservation at Scapa Flow Museum
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…
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12 November 2021
Big artefacts go under cover at Scapa Flow Museum
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.
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27 May 2021
Pupils plot future Scapa Flow Museum education space
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…
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13 May 2021
Scapa Flow Museum refurbishment picking up pace
Work to expand and refresh Orkney’s flagship Scapa Flow Museum with a bespoke series of new galleries and café is well underway, with the full form and extent of the new extension now visible.
