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‘All Kinds of Everything Reminds Me of You’ is a collection of recent works by Sheena Graham-George, spanning  mediums and celebrating life and creativity.

This summer, a new series of tours will be launched in St Magnus Cathedral. 

Time will stand still whilst the Cathedral clockwork undergoes a major overhaul and clean this Spring. 

The majestic St Magnus Cathedral will be closed to the public from 3pm-4.30pm on Saturday 22 March for a very royal occasion! 

Broad Street will be closed to traffic this Sunday 9 March to enable routine high-level survey work on Kirkwall Town Hall.

cal folk are being urged to share Orkney’s creativity during the Island Games - by submitting art, sculpture, photos, or words for displays in windows ‘doon the street’ in Stromness.

Anyone can submit work - from bairns and first timers to professionals – for consideration.

‘A Life in Drawing and Painting’ - a retrospective by local artist Robin Bownass - opens on 8 March at The Orkney Museum.

The hidden meanings behind some of Orkney’s iconic grave markers are the subject of the Orkney Museum’s first exhibition of 2025. 

Centuries-old exquisitely crafted weapons owned by Captain James Moodie – known locally for his dramatic murder in Broad Street, Kirkwall - have been gifted to the people of Orkney by his modern-day family and have arrived in the county and into the care of Orkney Islands Council’s Museums service.

The North Isles Landscape Partnership has been highly commended in the Nature of Scotland Awards 2024 for working alongside farmers and other landowners to restore natural habitats for wading birds.