This Saturday, 5 February 2022, sees the opening of  'Ghosts and Stories' at the Orkney Museum, an exhibition of new artworks by Antony Hodgson.

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.

Council Curator Ellen Pesci talks about her special links with Scapa Flow Museum, both with the historic Pumphouse where her grandfather worked and with a painting which will be installed in the redeveloped Museum by her father, renowned illustrator and artist Jim Baikie.

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!