Small gallery with an eclectic mixture of art. Set in a beautiful building overlooking the harbour.

Got a chance to display my work in this amazing gallery! Won't soon forget the experience. Beautiful building and aleays unique and original displays of work.

Such a beautiful space, very wheelchair friendly and really inclusive for kids

A beautiful light, bright space with wonderful sea views. Every time I visit there has been great exhibitions as well as their usual collection. It's a lovely gallery. Echoing someone else's comment: a wish for a cafe - Stromness is so badly in need of somewhere cool and calm for a quality coffee and of course that may bring in even more people...

Good selection of work. Liked reading the reviews of local kids on the different pieces of art.

Beautiful gallery with a fine permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.

Very clean and modern building with a surprisingly good art collection including a pleasant surprise to see works by Barbara Hepworth. Would be really great if it had a cafe since it's hard to get a coffee in Stromness.

This place deserves to be better known. Why is it not shouting about its fantastic collection of modern art? Items from permanent collection always on display and interesting temporary exhibitions. The well written labels give great insight into the character of Margaret Tait who donated her collection as the starting point. Worth travelling a long way to visit.

Great museum. The added attraction of interactive 3D scans of some shipwrecks at the moment. Well worth a visit...and the ticket is valid a week so you can re-visit.

Small but very interesting

Now cost 6 for adults and can go back in one week time. Worth much more and far more interesting than I thought. So many interesting details of local culture, the war even whales hunting history. With some nature introduction on the upper floor. Introducing seaweed, animals, birds, shells …etc. Highly recommend.

It's a small museum but I loved to learn some of the history of Orkney. Found it really interesting, also you can return for free is you're staying for many days in the town.

Superb tells u history of stromness as a town and its folk full of orcadian culture exhibits about john rae etc and stuff on wildlife off orkney and orkneys wartime past really enjoyable time spent in thier

Fascinating museum. So much history of Orkney residents from the past. Well presented, easy to navigate round. Friends staff. Free entrance but donations greatly appreciated,

I spent some time in the museum during my first trip to Orkney. The displays are incredibly fascinating, and I could easily have spent the whole day looking and reading. I was most interested in the lighthouse display and the information on the HMS Hampshire disaster. I will visit again and allow myself more time.

This is a lovely little museum. I love those museums of cabinets packed with artefacts - I am sure I missed plenty of interesting bits, so have lots of reasons to go back! What I did see was interesting and varied. The staff member on duty was brilliant and welcoming. A great place to visit with kids.

This is my favourite kind of museum. Small, but packed full with information and exhibits focusing on specifically local history. There is an entrance fee of £5, but it is well worth it as you can return to the museum using the same ticket and there is so much to take in. Downstairs covers the Scapa Flow stories from the two world wars, merchant navy, and a special exhibition; upstairs is a collection of taxidermy particularly locally seen birds, and the Hudson Bay Company. I was particularly interested in the Cairns exhibition, the current special exhibition. It highlighted the results of recent archaeological research on a number of brochs. It was a fascinating window into a mysterious phenomenon, and outlined new discoveries, theories, and understanding. All this in around 4 metres worth of exhibit.

As I live in Canada , I learned so much about the Hudson Bay Company and 2/3 of them came from Orkney and along the street front the amount of buildings that was connected to Hudson Bay. This is one of the best museums I have ever visited, 2hrs but could have spent 6 hrs

So much history packed into a small space, ranging from Dr John Rae the local artic explorer, the German Fleet scuttling in Scapa Flow WW1, Royal Oak sinking WW2, findings from the Neolithic dig in South Ronaldsay, stuffed birds, a huge turtle, model sailing ships from the 1800s, lighthouses around Orkney, local wedding traditions, and more. Garth at desk was very friendly & informative, drew my attention to the story about John Renton, and the human tooth necklace on loan from the National Museum.

Very interesting museum. Quite a bit of variation, but focused on links to the sea, makes sense considering location.

What's not to like! A lovely, quirky - was previously the Town Hall - museum, stuffed full with interesting artefacts and stories, interactive additions that add even more to your experience. Children's activity sheets mean there is something for everyone. The Curator's Tour is highly recommended, get's your visit off to a great start and you can then spend as much time as you like after the tour taking more time to experience the parts you found most interesting...

Great local museum. Staff are friendly and informative. Got a map of the museum when we entered. Well worth it for a wee place. So much to tell about famous Orcadians and especially John Rae. Great to read about the dig at Cairns but the real reason I loved it was because I got to meet the real Buddo! 😍😍 He is just amazing!!

Stromness is a quaint place, particularly liked the cobbled streets and individual houses that ran from the harbour. The statue was short, which made me wonder if Dr John Rae was, if he lacked height he certainly made up for in accomplishments.

Nice statue. That's about it really. Soz.

Enjoyed crossings so much. Good shop. Efficient crew.

Well,great staff and excellent service, food on board is excellent, extremely clean modern way of travel,

Fab service taking you to wonderful places- what's not to love!

Easy to check in and now sitting waiting to board with my car

Did the Overnight B&B, Which was worth doing, followed by a lively crossing to scrabster. Very clean and well laid out ferry. Staff on board were very good, but staff in both terminals lacking decent customer service skills, hence 4 not 5 star.

This was one of the most pleasant surprises of our trip. The personnel on the ferry is super friendly and helpful. We also stayed for a night in the premium cabin and the cabin itself as well as all the drinks, food and lounge access that was included in the -very reasonable- price was great. A wonderful experience...

Very good helpful women (staff!) I spoke to on the phone & in person. I missed a Pentland Ferry, (other company who sail from mainland North Scottish Highlands to Orkney)as Pentland had sailed slightly earlier than scheduled & I'd been misadvised by a member of their staff that I didn't need to book. I'd driven an hour from North Orkney to get to the south for that Ferry only to see it sailing away early ahead of schedule ! Was so upset & anxious as I simply had to get back, it was urgent ! Also Pentland were fully booked up the next morning & their eailrliest ferry was too late for me so Northlink came to my rescue, so to speak ! 2 ladies at Pentland Ferries staff at St. Margaret's Hope were extremely nice & helpful & told me about other company's timetables so I phoned Northlink & they had availability at first sail @6:30am & booked me on without payment ! I'd pay on arrival but they secured my booking over the phone & I made it back to my destination, late but it worked out reasonably Okay although Northlink are up to £25 more expensive than Pentland & they also go to Shetland whereas Pentland don't, they both go to & from different parts. Pentland's used to go past the 2nd largest & high mountainous island of Hoy & the Old Man of Hoy (famous phalic stone sea stack) but now they've changed their route so you don't see it but the ferry I took with Northlink this time (01 July '22) did ! So pleased to get to see it before left Orkney cos hadn't managed to fit it in !

Clean, friendly staff. Spacious ship with great views. Took the ferry from Stromness to the mainland, about a hour ride. Passed the Old Man of Hoy surrounded in haar. Fun to wander from one side to the other to see the different views. Staff on shore friendly and helpful. Great way to travel and be relaxed.

A really fascinating and important site, brought to life all the more by the brilliant tour Andy gave a group of us. The weather wasn’t kind, but that almost made the experience even more realistic! Highly recommend booking a tour with Andy at nessbattery.co.uk - £6 per person for more than an hour of really interesting information about Ness Battery and the war effort in Orkney is a complete bargain!

Fascinating visit. Great tour. Well worth a visit

Had a really informative interesting tour, £6 each and lasted an hour.

Cool place with a lot of amazing history. Make sure you check tour timings and arrive orlelse you wont make it in. The tour is really informative and feels good to be in a place with such amazing history.

An interesting visit all about the 1st and 2nd world wars,inside the mess hall has painted wall by a soldier

A really excellent tour by Andy Hollinrake. His knowledge about the Battery and wartime Orkney is second to none. The painting inside the mess hall is stunning. A really important WWI & WWII site not to be missed.

Fantastic views over towards Hoy!

This is a fantastic place to visit. While there are lots of battery’s on Orkney, this is the only one with accommodation huts still in place. Try to get on one of the guided tours to see the amazing decoration inside the huts.