Old Haa Museum
A 17th-century merchant's house in Burravoe on Yell, displaying island life, shipwreck finds and folk traditions, with a tearoom.
The Old Haa was built in 1672 as a merchant's house in Burravoe on Yell. It is now a community museum with exhibits on island family history, fishing and knitting tools, shipwreck relics and old photographs. The tearoom on the ground floor serves homemade cakes. Not far outside stands a memorial to the Catalina flying boat that crashed here in 1942. Admission is free (donations welcome), and it is open roughly April to September. It is a good place to stop on Yell on the way to Unst.
Opening hours
About Apr–Sep, Tue–Sun 10:00–16:00
Nearby sights
- Muness Castle
- Weisdale Mill & Bonhoga Gallery
- Unst Bus Shelter
- Shetland Museum and Archives
- Isle of Noss
- Fort Charlotte
- Lerwick Old Town & Commercial Street
- Up Helly Aa