Tripadvisor® 2024 Travelers’ Choice® Award Winners!
Arctic Convoy Museum Wins Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Award 2024 We are pleased to announce that we have been recognised in Tripadivsor’s® Travellers’ Choice® Awards for 2024. The award honours businesses that consistently earn great reviews, placing them among the top 10% of listings around the world on Tripadvisor. As the world’s largest travel guidance […]
Change of Name
The Board of Trustees of the Russian Arctic Convoy Project, the charity which owns and runs the museum, have decided to adopt a trading name for the museum. Henceforth, the museum will trade under the name Arctic Convoy Museum. We have informed the Scottish Charity’s Commission (OSCR) about this and they have agreed to it. […]
We Have Been Awarded Working Towards Accreditation
We are pleased to report that the Arctic Convoy Museum has been awarded “Working Towards Accreditation” by Museums Galleries Scotland. This means we have surmounted the first hurdle to becoming an accredited museum. The Accreditation Scheme helps museums do things the right way by making sure they manage their collections properly, engage with visitors, and […]
EVENT: Russia and the Hebrides
Russia and the Hebrides: A Talk by Donald S. Murray. 25th June 2024, 7pm, Poolewe Village Hall. Free Entry, donations welcome. Download Event Poster. In 2023, Donald published his book ‘Red Star over the Hebrides’, in which he uses prose and poetry to explore the links between Russia and his native Lewis. This evening, Donald […]
EVENT: Arctic Convoys, Bletchley Park & The War for the Seas
We mark the beginning of the 2024 season with an online talk given by Dr David Kenyon, Bletchley Park’s research historian. 7.00pm on 26 March by Zoom TO BOOK VISIT: Eventbrite ARTIC CONVOYS: BLETCHLEY PARK AND THE WAR FOR THE SEAS. Dr David Kenyon Bletchley Park’s Research Historian, discusses his new book Arctic Convoys, Bletchley […]
RACP Newsletter December 2023
Wishing all veterans, visitors, followers and supporters a very Happy New Year! Our Winter 2023 Newsletter can be downloaded here. The RACP Team
Arctic Convoy Museum Appoints Inaugural Curator
The Russian Arctic Convoy Museum on the shores of Loch Ewe has appointed its first Museum Curator. Loch Ewe was the point of departure for many of the convoys taking supplies to Russia during WW2, under the constant threat of attack from enemy aircraft and U-boats. Many wartime buildings, gun emplacements and anti-aircraft batteries survive […]
Tripadvisor® 2023 Travelers’ Choice® Award Winners!
The Russian Arctic Convoy Museum Recognised as Tripadvisor® 2023 Travelers’ Choice® Award Winner The Russian Arctic Convoy Museum’s Great Traveler Reviews Earn it a Place Among Travelers’ Favorites Wester Ross, Aultbea, 11th August 2023 – The Russian Arctic Convoy Museum today announced it has been recognised by Tripadvisor as a 2023 Travelers’ Choice award winner. […]
Christmas 2022 Newsletter
Download the Christmas Newsletter here. RACP newsletter December 2022
Specimen Tree Planting at Inverewe Gardens
The weather tried its best but didn’t stop a rather special tree from being planted at Inverewe Gardens on Wednesday 26th October 2022. A new specimen tree, Davidia involucrata ‘Sonoma’, was chosen by Head Gardener, Kevin Ball. Also known as the ‘handkerchief tree’, A deciduous, conical tree to 15m tall with broadly ovate, sharply-pointed, red-stalked, […]
