holiday lets The Cider Barn Apartment
A chance to get behind the scenes and take a closer look at objects and artwork in our collection
Details
- 1 April 2023 - 2 December 2023
- Various
Meet the Collections gives you the opportunity to see some of the fascinating items in our collections that are not usually on display at one of our sites. With a different theme each month, our collections team will be selecting some of their favourite objects to show you and will be on hand to tell you about these objects, where they came from and what they can tell us about our Island’s history.
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- Saturday, 1 April
- Saturday, 13 May
- Thursday, 1 June
- Wednesday, 26 July
- Wednesday, 9 August
- Saturday, 9 September
- Saturday, 7 October
- Saturday, 4 November
- Saturday, 2 December
That's Entertainment
Saturday, 1 April / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
We’ll be exploring local entertainment, from the days when tourism was at its peak and high profile celebrities, bands and entertainers came to Jersey to perform. We’ll have material from our archive and objects from our museum collection on display.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am.
This event is free of charge.
Occupation and Liberation
Saturday, 13 May / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
To coincide with Liberation Day earlier in the week, join us at the Sir Francis Cook Gallery and see a variety of objects and documents from this momentous period in our Island’s history, including Red Cross parcels, homemade household items and crystal radio sets.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am.
This event is free of charge.
Meet the Collections
Thursday, 1 June / 9.30am to 1pm / Hamptonne Country Life Museum
We’ll be bringing along some of our collection connected to farming and rural life and giving you the chance to ask questions about the Island’s farming history.
Archaeology
Wednesday, 26 July / 9.30am 1pm / La Hougue Bie
As part of the Festival of Archaeology, we’ll be showing some of the archaeological treasures from the collection as well as some recent finds.
Meet the Collections
Wednesday, 9 August / 9.30am to 1pm / Jersey Museum & Art Gallery
Come and explore the Bouan Appetit exhibition, and see even more objects relating to Jersey’s history of food and food production.
Deportees
Saturday, 9 September / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
In September 1942 over 1,000 people who were not of Jersey birth were deported from the Island to internment camps in Germany. Join us at the Sir Francis Cook Gallery where we will be showing some of the objects, art works, diaries, letters and photographs that were created by the deportees and tell us the story of their experiences.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am giving you an opportunity to see many more of the objects in our collection connected to the Second World War.
Health and Medication
Saturday, 7 October / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
Learn how medicine has progressed over the years. We’ll have doctor’s and dentist’s tools, medicine bottles, pharmaceutical objects and more for you to take a look at.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am giving you an opportunity to see many more of the objects in our collection connected to health and medicine.
Wierd and Wonderful
Saturday, 4 November / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
We have all sorts of unusual objects in our collection, come along and see some of the strangest things our staff have picked out just for you.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am giving you an opportunity to see many more of the objects in our collection that are weird and wonderful.
Technology & Gadgets
Saturday, 2 December / 9.30am to 1pm / Sir Francis Cook Gallery
See how technology has changed over the years, with an array of objects from typewriters to telephones to cameras.
Tours of our social history store will also run at 10am and 11am giving you an opportunity to see many more of the objects in our collection.
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1 January 2023 - 31 December 2023The free Visitor Centre will help you to understand and explore Jersey.
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Searching for Jersey’s Celts
1 March 2023 - 31 October 2023The world's largest Celtic hoard was discovered in Jersey, this exhibition explores why people might have buried it there.
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