Fetlar Interpretive Centre

A dynamic community-run museum on one of Shetland’s remoter islands. Displays on crofting and the sea are complemented by early film and storytelling recordings, and interactive multimedia displays bring to life the island’s natural and cultural history. An in-depth exhibition on Sir William Watson Cheyne and early antiseptic surgery won a Scottish Museum of the Year Award for educational initiative, and includes a schools’ pack and two interactive computer displays. -

Fetlar Museum will have its usual permanent displays available this season, as well as some new displays and artifacts.

Sir William Watson Cheyne
Many of the written and published works of Sir Watson, the noted surgeon and assistant to Lord Lister, are now available as a free PDF download from the Sir Watson website:
http://www.watson-cheyne.com/.

The Time Team in Fetlar
The Time Team, from the popular UK television programme, were on Fetlar from Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th of August, 2002.

Because of the interest this has created, we have set up a few extra pages providing a record of their activity on the island. The sites they have excavated are at Gord, Houbie, where parts of a Viking house have been uncovered, and also a Viking boat burial at Aith. The pages showing the Time Team in Fetlar can be accessed from here.