Current exhibitions

na Dorsan

The exhibition entitled ‘na Dorsan’ charts the history of Galson from prehistory to community buyout in 2007. It will showcase Iron Age and Viking artefacts discovered on the Galson coastline - on loan from National Museums Scotland and Museum nan Eilean, Stornoway. People have settled around Galson for thousands of years. Clues to the area’s prehistory survive in the form of objects found in excavations or as chance discoveries. These will be used to weave a story from the first farmers in the area, some 6000 years ago, through to the area’s contacts with the Viking world.

The launch of ‘na Dorsan’ is the first in a series of events to commemorate the centenary of the re-settling of Galson in 1924.  The events are the result of a collaboration with Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn, Airidhantuim Community Council, Galson Grazings Committee, National Museums of Scotland, and Museum nan Eilean. This will culminate in the unveiling, by Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn, of a stone monument named 'na Dorsan' in the Autumn of 2024. 

The exhibition will run until March 2025. 

Time and Tide by Moira Maclean

Born and brought up in Lewis, Moira Maclean is an Honours and Masters Fine Art graduate from Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. Her paintng's are evocations of her upbringing and the Island environment: A child-scape of houses, machair, beaches, islets, and villages. In the past, she has ‘raised’ abandoned Island croft houses, accumulating artefacts and old wallpaper; as materials to explore transience and diaspora from a female, domestic persepective.

Her exhibitions include An Lanntair, Stornoway, Rendezvous Gallery Aberdeen, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, Merchant City Glasgow and Mariehamm Finland. She has also undertaken numerous commissions including for the National Theatre for Scotland, Gandolfi Fish restaurant and for private clients.