While the Isles of Scilly Museum and Cultural Centre team count down to their new home opening in early summer 2027, the Museum isn’t standing still.
As part of Museum on the Move – their ongoing mission to bring the Museum out and about to communities and visitors across the islands while they bringing the Town Hall back to life – the team will be popping up at events on St Agnes, Tresco, Bryher and St Mary’s throughout August.
Here’s where to find them.
Island Fetes
They will be at three off-island fetes this August, each with a small display of artefacts and photographs relating to that particular island, a shipwreck story and objects, and a look at our Nornour brooches, part of a hoard of over 300 Roman-era brooches uncovered on the tiny island of Nornour after a storm in 1962, thought to have been left as offerings at a shrine to a sea goddess.
There’ll also be games and word searches for children.
St Agnes Fete: Saturday 2 August
Tresco Fete: Saturday 9 August
Bryher Fete: Saturday 23 August
St Mary’s Water Carnival
Saturday 22 August
The Museum will be part of this year’s Water Carnival, one of the bigger events in the community calendar. Expect pirate stories and shipwrecks, dressing up, and more.
St Mary’s Gig Club Fun Day
Saturday 30 August
They will also be joining Gig Club’s fun day on St Mary’s — more details to follow closer to the time.
The Museum has also got great exhibitions running all summer in our pop up spaces:-
The Greatest Gull on St Mary’s in the Steamship Office shares the story of Scilly’s largest gull, once hunted as a predator and now protected as an endangered species.
All is Leaf on Tresco in the Garden History Room celebrates the six unique hybrid plants of Tresco Abbey Gardens through original work by artist Gemma Anderson Tempini.
Our Hilda Quick exhibition on St Agnes in the Island Hall includes art work and illustrations by Miss Quick – the island’s famous artist and ornithologist.
All this forms part of Museum on the Move, which has been keeping the Museum’s collection out and about since the building closed. The Museum’s new home – the Isles of Scilly Cultural Centre and Museum at the Town Hall on St Mary’s – is on track to open in early summer 2027, but until then, the team will keep bringing the collection to you.