What you'll hear inside Orkney Museum:

• 1
  Baikie Library

  Preserved within the Orkney Museum, this historic room holds 487 titles and, alongside the Drawing Room, gives a real sense of 19th-century Baikie family life.

• 2
  Baikie Drawing Room

  This carefully preserved room within the Orkney Museum recreates domestic life at Tankerness House in the 19th century, and now also displays a recently donated painting.

• 3
  Archaeology Collection Gallery

  Holding some 100,000 artefacts spanning over 5,000 years, this nationally recognised collection ranges from Mesolithic tools to Viking boat-burial finds from Scar.

• 4
  Contemporary History Galleries

  Several rooms exploring Orkney's social history over recent centuries, including a small research area where visitors can browse old photographs, film footage and historical documents.

• 5
  Broad Street Entrance Archway

  Dating from 1574, this cobbled archway off Broad Street is the main entrance to the Orkney Museum, leading through to a quiet courtyard before the building itself.