The finalists for 2023's Art Fund Museum of the Year have been announced. Encompassing galleries across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, the winner will receive £120,000. 🥂Congratulations Scapa Flow Museum, @burrellcollect @TheMACBelfast @NHM_London @LeightonHouse_ 🥂

News | Art Fund reveals Museum of the Year finalists. Congratulations to: @burrellcollect @LeightonHouse_ Scapa Flow Museum @TheMACBelfast @NHM_London Read: https://t.co/XVGzdm1JCQ

🥁It's time to reveal the finalists for #MuseumOfTheYear 2023. 🥁 🎉@burrellcollect, @LeightonHouse_, @TheMACBelfast, @NHM_London & Scapa Flow Museum💫 🏆 Congratulations!

@TheMACBelfast @burrellcollect @LeightonHouse_ @NHM_London @artfund

We are delighted to share the news that our newly redeveloped Scapa Flow Museum has been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 #MuseumoftheYear #scottishislandspassport Congratulations to our fellow finalists @TheMACBelfast @burrellcollect @LeightonHouse_ @NHM_London

Really very very proud that our first visitors were pupils from North Walls School, and that they were there to tell us what we should be doing and how we should be doing it.

We are recruiting for a Curator!!! 15 hours p/w permanent post. Primarily social history and fine art with a focus on the Scapa Flow Museum development

Great to be able to attend #Museums2020 virtually all this week

Sadly our museums are closing from 5pm tomorrow (Friday). If you want to see our current temporary exhibition - Mizzle and Strife and all things Nice by @claregeeorkney then please go to the Orkney Museum today or tomorrow

This evening 7-9pm!!!

Opening tomorrow (Saturday) at Orkney Museum, our new exhibition Orkney Sailing Club - 130 years of sailing, runs until 30 November

Our Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards Scheme is now open, offering #grants of between £500 and £1500 to support individual #artists and craft makers develop professionally and creatively in #orkney - https://t.co/uXy2f3nqba

It's Tuesday and in #Orkney we're all waiting for this #heatwave we keep hearing about on all the news channels, social media and weather apps. 😎 Here is a fabulous photograph from the Archives of the anemometer and sunshine recorder in Deerness, taken by Tom Kent.

Corrigall Farm Museum is closed today due to staff illness. We apologise for the lack of notice and any inconvenience caused. Kirbuster Museum is open for visitors as normal.

There’s a call out for artists for this project in Orkney that looks really interesting -

Museums folk in Scotland - remember to feed into the consultation of the @MuseumsGalScot 3rd National Strategy Delivery Plan

Excited to be speaking about the launch of the @NorthernNousts Virtual Museum tomorrow on @bbcorkney & @bbcshetland grateful to share about this active #research with people & places more widely @hw_irc @ThinkUHI @NordicUHI @ShetlandMandA @OrkneyMuseums @SGSAH_ #PhDLife

My final outing on the @sgsah blog, discussing the exhibition I worked on in March @NordicUHI @UHI_Research @OrkneyMuseums @ThinkUHI

Totally chuffed that we’ve successfully gone through @NatSignifColls 5 year review and had our full #MuseumAccreditation @ace_national status confirmed for another 5 years too. Well done to every single one of the team for all the hard work and dedication

Quick reminder to all the rune aficionados out there: Today and tomorrow are your last chance to see the temporary exhibition on runes in Orkney at @OrkneyMuseums - on Monday all the loans will go back to their kind loaners. And I may cry a little.