Tales of the Titanic | Maritime Museum

This half term discover the truth about one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time. Join us for this must see event at the Maritime Museum. There is free passage for Jersey Heritage members.

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Discover Design | Jersey Museum

Discover Design at the Jersey Museum. By looking at the textile exhibition in the Merchant’s House by Karen Le Roy Harris, learn some amazing facts about design in art and paintings. See how design is all around us and how you can design something amazing yourself.

Discover Sailors | Maritime Museum

Discover how sailors lived and worked. Find out about famous sailors and lands they have discovered and ships they have sailed and why being a sailor was incredibly dangerous. Learn all about the life of a sailor and make some sailing crafts.

Discover Battle of Jersey | Elizabeth Castle

Discover the Battle of Jersey at Elizabeth Castle. The soldiers who were stationed at Elizabeth Castle were involved in the Battle of Jersey so find out about them and the French and English sides of the Battle. Discover the armour and weapons used by armies throughout history and make some battle crafts

Discover Dinosaurs | La Hougue Bie

Discover Dinosaurs at Mont Orgueil. Find out how you can be an explorer and try to find buried bones and identify your finds. Discover more about dinosaurs and fossils and what they tell you about history. Take part in the Dinosaur trail around the site and have a go at making your own dinosaur.

Discover Kings and Queens | Mont Orgueil

Discover fantastic facts about Kings and Queens. Make your own crown to wear and dress up and have a go at some other royal crafts. Find out about Kings and Queens who have been to Jersey. Follow a fun trail around the castle to find some Kings and Queens and learn about the monarchs and rulers of and their power and privileges.

Discover Farming | Hamptonne

Discover farming at Hamptonne. Learn about how Jersey Farms used to work and what crops and animals were important. Find out about what was needed on a farm and make some fantastic farm crafts and go on a trail around Hamptonne.

Discover Dragons | Mont Orgueil

Discover dragons and mythical creatures at Mont Orgueil. Find out about the legends of dragons and other mythical beasts and whether these creatures really existed and what they might have looked like. St George, one of the most famous dragon slayers, celebrates his feast day on 23 April and Mont Orgueil has a Chapel dedicated to St George. Design your own fantasy creature and find the hidden dragons around the castle.

Discover Springtime | La Hougue Bie

Discover springtime at an ancient site of celebration. The Spring Equinox is the first day of spring and occurs when the length of daylight and nighttime is exactly the same - 12 hours. La Hougue Bie is accurately aligned so that the rising sun shines into the passage grave. Come and learn all about the magic of the equinox, spring and Easter. Take part in a spring trail and celebrate the season by making some spring time crafts.

Fete des Dolams | Other

Jersey Heritage invites you to delve into the Island’s history, get on board the Dolmen bus and take part in the Fête des Dolmens. This day-long Island tour with a difference, will explore the Island’s megalithic monuments and will stop at dolmens from east to west. The morning will be spent in the eastern parishes, after a picnic lunch en-route, time travellers will head west to explore dolmens in the West.

Drawn to Paint | Jersey Museum

- a celebration of work by Adult Education students. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by thirty-two talented students, ranging in age from seventeen to over eighty, who are taught by local artist Michelle Le Cornu. All the artwork has been completed during the Autumn Term 2011, at the Philip Mourant Centre and Highlands College. It includes oil paintings and drawings in a variety of media – charcoal, pastel, ink and collage – depicting still life, landscape and life models.

A Night at the Museum | Mont Orgueil

Museums at Night is an annual national campaign which seeks to encourage visitors into museums, galleries and heritage sites by simply opening up late or putting on special evening events. Jersey Heritage is taking part in this event by opening its doors at night. This event is to be confirmed.

Creative Christmas | Jersey Museum

Make home-made decorations, Christmas cards and gifts in the craft workshop. Kick off your Christmas with a visit to the Jersey Museum. Come and make some fantastic cards, decorations and gifts for the holidays. We may even have a special visit from Father Christmas during the day.

Sounds and Cider | Hamptonne

New to La Faîs’sie d’Cidre this year, from 6pm to 11pm join us for Sounds and Cider where we’ll be celebrating cider making into the night, with live music, a hog roast and plenty of ciders and Perry from the CAMRA tent and La Robeline trailer

Time Team at Mont Orgueil | Mont Orgueil

This new exhibition digs deeper into the recent archaeological excavations at Mont Orgueil Castle by Channel 4’s Time Team. Time Team arrived in Jersey in May 2010 and spent three days exploring the outer defences of the castle.

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All our Yesterdays, the People’s Exhibition, 1950s to 1980s | Jersey Museum

Do you remember what song was number one in 1958 or which celebrities appeared in Jersey in the 1960s? What fashion was worn in the 1970s and where could you go for a good night out? Who remembers the earliest mobile phones or a Spectrum 48K computer from the 1980s?

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TB Davis The Only Sailor in the Fleet | Maritime Museum

This new semi-permanent exhibition will tell his story, from humble beginnings as a 13-year old fisherman to becoming a qualified extra master under sail. His history will be traced through the years when he made his fortune in Southern Africa to the glory of owning the racing schooner Westward. Sponsored by Coutts.

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La FaÎs’sie d’Cidre | Hamptonne

La Fais'sie d'Cidre is our annual event celebrating Jersey's rich heritage of growing apples and making cider. The highlight is the traditional cider making and tasting – but there are plenty of other things to do including a local craft market, children’s activities and crafts, Jersey wonders, live music throughout the day, apple experts and Jerriais group, breadmaking and cider to buy from CAMRA and La Robeline.

Big Advent Calendar | Jersey Museum

The first recorded Advent Calendar as we know them today was made in 1851, today Jersey Heritage continues the long tradition by creating a large scale Advent Calendar. Over the past four weeks, local Churches and Sunday Schools have been busy drawing pictures of the real Christmas Story and what it means to them. 24 fantastic pictures have been chosen to tell the Christmas story and a new picture will be revealed each day until Christmas eve. The Advent Calendar will remain in the Jersey Museum courtyard until 6 January and pictures that were submitted will be displayed in the Jersey Museum concourse until 31 December.

Hidden Treasures Modern Masters | Jersey Museum

Hidden Treasures – Modern Masters in association with Moore Stephens, provides a rare opportunity to experience world-class examples of modern art at the Jersey Museum.

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