The Orkney Museum and Stromness Museum both have new exhibits on display.

The Stromness Museum's display contains a wide range of artefacts including material from the Northern Lighthouse Board, Cree Indian beadwork and wooden bowls from Africa. Other items include metal dinner tokens from Stromness Primary School and the 'slap stick' used for marking pigs in Stromness Mart.

There is also a sad reminder of the horrors of war with the display of an empty case of an incendiary bomb that was dropped on the Brig o' Waithe houses, which has been recently inspected and certified safe. The new displays replace the North Boats exhibition

Recent donations occupy a small room downstairs in the Orkney Museum.

They include models of a Viking longship and a sailing ship as well as children's toys and domestic artefacts. A collection of material from World War I includes naval hatbands, small artefacts from the German High Seas Fleet and a 'death penny' and medal issued to the family of John Wick from Kirkwall, who fought and died with the Australian Imperial Forces.

From World War II there is a medal awarded to the family of A.B. Gunner Robert J. Cannon who was lost on HMS Royal Oak. There is also a gas mask in its original box and a wooden inlaid tea tray made by an Italian P.O.W.

Stromness Museum has an admission charge and is open Monday-Saturday, 11.00 a.m.-3.30 p.m. The Orkney Museum is free and open Monday-Saturday, 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m., 1.30 p.m.-5.00 p.m.