Welcome

Our mission is to safeguard, enhance, and promote Shetland's heritage, ensuring it is accessible to be enjoyed by all.

Shetland Amenity Trust constantly strives to preserve and enhance everything that is distinctive about Shetland's cultural and natural heritage, promoting access to it whether physical or intellectual.

The Trust was created in 1983 and has since delivered an extensive range of high quality heritage and culture projects, in partnership with a range of local, national and international agencies.

We continue to be pro-active in seeking new opportunities and identifying new funding sources, to further enhance the heritage and culture experience for local Shetland people and visitors to our islands.

We are part of a community which takes great pride and pleasure in our cultural and natural heritage, embracing traditions, dialect and our physical environment in all of our activities.

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• 12Oct

  New Exhibition: Gathered, Here

  Gathered, Here is an artist-led collaborative exhibition developed by Zya Community as part of the Delivering Change: Community Catalysts programme. Delivering Change is a Museums Galleries Scotland programme that seeks to address the exclusion of the histories and lived experiences of many of Scotland’s people and communities from museum spaces.

• 22Sep

  Kirstan Hol

  The current J.D. Rattar exhibition includes this of a fourareen inside the entrance to Kirstan Hol, perhaps the most well-known cave in Papa Stour.

• 21Sep

  The Final Foghorn Sounding of 2026

  Mark your calendars for Sunday 4 October, when Retained Lightkeeper Brian Johnson will bring the mighty foghorn engines at Sumburgh Head roaring into life from 12 noon.