Welcome to the UK's most northerly music, cinema and creative industries centre. Sited right on the edge of the North Sea on the historic Hay's Dock quayside in Lerwick beside the Shetland Museum and Archives, Mareel offers a stunning setting for performance, production, studying or just relaxing with a coffee enjoying the view and watching the seals and seabirds bobbing just outside the windows.
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Tuesday to Thursday: 9am - 9pm
Friday to Saturday: 9am - 11pm
Sunday: 9am - 9pm
Cafe Hours
PLEASE NOTE: Our cafe bar opening hours will now be the same every week. As we continue to struggle with staff shortages, we will remain on a reduced opening schedule. Our aim with these new hours is to provide consistency for our customers.
Tues: CLOSED / Weds: CLOSED / Thurs: 5pm - 9pm / Fri: 10am - 12am / Sat: 10am - 12am / Sun: CLOSED - Telephone
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Facilities & Accessibility Info
- Cafe
- Live performance auditorium
- Two cinema screens
- Gift shop
- Rehearsal spaces
- Recording Studio
- Education and training spaces
- Digital Media Production Suite
- Broadcasting facilities
- Exhibition Spaces
- Box Office
- Parking
- Free Wifi
- Toilets
- Full disabled access, including disabled toilet.
Mareel is part of Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland, supporting breastfeeding mums in public places. Find out more about the scheme here.
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➤ Mareel, One of the Most Beautiful Cinemas in the World
Mareel, has been listed at number 26 in Time Out's list of "Planet Earth's most heavenly picture houses and movie theatres", sitting beside such glittering venues as Pathé Tuschinski, Amsterdam and Le Grand Rex, Paris.
