Stromness Museum

Take the family to see Scotland’s second oldest independent museum which houses Orkney’s strong maritime and natural history. Since 1837 the museum has curated treasurescollected by Orkney seafarers and adventurers from around the world. The Victorian natural history gallery holds a stunning collection of bird eggs, fossils, sea creatures, mammals, butterflies and moths. The kdis can elarn all about famous ships which sailed into Stromness including Captain Cook’s Resolution and Endeavour and learn of Sir William Franklin’s fateful journey. Arctic explorer Dr John Rae’s links with Canadian native people and whale fishing have special exhibitions and you can see Robert Louis Stevenson’s signature.