Funding boost for archaeological displays

Orkney Islands Council has secured £38,750 of funding from Museums Galleries Scotland to revamp the way it displays its important archaeology collection.

The funding from the Recognition Scheme will allow the council’s museums service to develop a new approach to their permanent exhibitions.

A project officer will be employed to design and pilot a new flexible model of display and interpretation for the archaeology collection.

The collection, owned and managed by the council, includes the assemblage from the Scar Viking boat burial, an insect brooch from Howe, stone mace heads and other Neolithic tools.

The archaeology galleries were established in the 1980s and cover the Neolithic, Iron Age, Vikings and Picts.