Qualla: Isles of Scilly Museum https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Isles of Scilly Museum https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum Isles of Scilly Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit Burmesedays, CC BY-SA 3.0. Atlantic storms made this museum. In 1962, heavy weather scoured the tiny uninhabited island of Nornour, on the eastern fringe of the Isles of Scilly, and washed out a collection of Romano-British artefacts that had lain undisturbed for some 1,800 years. A group of islanders, suddenly custodians of a small archaeological treasure, decided the finds needed somewhere to live. They opened a seasonal display in the Wesleyan Chapel in Hugh Town. By 1967 they had raised the money for a purpose-built museum on Church Street, with residential flats above. Queen Elizabeth II visited it on 8 August 1967, just three weeks after opening. The museum lasted on that site for half a century. Then, in 2019, the ceiling was condemned.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Isles of Scilly Museum: What the Storms Brought https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit Public domain. Nornour is barely an island, a few hectares of granite rising out of the Eastern Isles. Yet the storms of 1962 exposed what is now understood to be a Romano-British shrine site, dense with brooches, coins, and votive figurines. The finds suggested that sailors and traders working...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-museum-what-the-storms-brought.mp3 0:06 2 full Isles of Scilly Museum: A Diverse and Stubborn Collection https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit John Grenfell Moyle, Public domain. The museum has always described its holdings as extremely diverse. Material from many wrecks. A wildflower display in summer. Romano-British finds. Stuffed birds. Local art and much more. This is a profoundly Scillonian list, the kind of inventory you only assemble when you live ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-museum-a-diverse-and-stubborn-collection.mp3 0:06 3 full Isles of Scilly Museum: The Day the Ceiling Failed https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit Andrewrabbott at en.wikipedia, Public domain. In June 2019 the Council of the Isles of Scilly announced that an engineer had inspected the Church Street building and warned that the ceiling posed a risk to staff and visitors. The museum closed. By September, the council had decided the building was beyond practical and econo...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-museum-the-day-the-ceiling-failed.mp3 0:06 4 full Isles of Scilly Museum: A Town Hall Reborn https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit Andrewrabbott at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The plan now is to reopen the museum permanently inside the 1889 Town Hall, a Grade II listed neoclassical building of squared granite that sits on The Parade in the middle of Hugh Town. In December 2022, the National Lottery Heritage Fund made an initial grant towards developing...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-museum-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-museum-a-town-hall-reborn.mp3 0:06 5 full Isles of Scilly Museum: Why a Museum Matters Here https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly-museum/ Photo credit David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Isles of Scilly carry an unusually deep archaeological record for an archipelago of their size. There are more Bronze Age entrance graves on these few square kilometres than anywhere else in the world. The seabed around the islands holds wreck after wreck, from the 1707 fleet...

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