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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 Council’s Museums team.
30 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.
12 November 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 visit, as it undergoes extensive refurbishment.
27 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.
13 May 2021