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15-07-2025
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Gold award for Jersey Museum exhibit about island
A museum exhibit looking at life in Jersey throughout the years has won an award. Jersey Museum's La Tèrr'rie d'Jèrri - which translates to Being Jersey - received a gold award in the Interior Design Galley category at the Better Future London Design Awards 2025. The exhibit opened in September last year and includes displays of prehistoric mammoth skulls, royal charters and items from 1781's Battle of Jersey between Britain and France and the Nazi occupation during World War Two. Louise Downie, director of curation and experience at Jersey Heritage, who runs the museum in St Helier, said a lot of hard work had gone into setting up the exhibit. Ms Downie added: "The gold award from the London Design Awards is the icing on the cake and is richly deserved by everyone involved in the project." More news stories for Jersey Listen to the latest news for Jersey Follow BBC Jersey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to Liberation: 80 years since the Germans left Jersey Battle of Jersey: Events to mark 244th anniversary Victorian Christmas brought to life at museum Story of Jersey exhibition to close after 31 years Jersey Heritage
BBC News
15-07-2025
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Gold award for Jersey Museum exhibit about island
A museum exhibit looking at life in Jersey throughout the years has won an Museum's La Tèrr'rie d'Jèrri - which translates to Being Jersey - received a gold award in the Interior Design Galley category at the Better Future London Design Awards exhibit opened in September last year and includes displays of prehistoric mammoth skulls, royal charters and items from 1781's Battle of Jersey between Britain and France and the Nazi occupation during World War Downie, director of curation and experience at Jersey Heritage, who runs the museum in St Helier, said a lot of hard work had gone into setting up the exhibit. Ms Downie added: "The gold award from the London Design Awards is the icing on the cake and is richly deserved by everyone involved in the project."
Yahoo
05-07-2025
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'Unique' contract from 1397 returned to Jersey
A family contract dating back to the 14th Century has become one of the earliest records held in Jersey's public archives. The de Gruchy-Pallot family papers were transferred to the archive at the family's request from the University of Alberta in Canada. The collection, which documents the life of Charles and Annie Pallot (née Giffard) and their six children, includes an inheritance contract that has been dated to 1397. Jersey Heritage archivist Jane de Gruchy, who is also a distant relative of the family, said: "We are absolutely delighted that this unique and important family collection has returned home to Jersey after so many years." More news stories for Jersey Listen to the latest news for Jersey Jersey Heritage said the collection first came to its attention when Herb Reynolds, a Canadian descendant of the Pallots, contacted the archive last year. His family had emigrated to Canada with a number of documents relating to the Pallot, de Gruchy and Giffard families in Jersey. In the 1970s they were donated to the University of Alberta alongside more recent family material relating to Canada. Other highlights from the collection include the 1502 will of Mathieu de Gruchy of Trinity, records relating to Adèle Haarseth, nee Pallot, from her military nursing career, a biography of the three Pallot brothers' time as pioneer settlers in Canada in the 1900s and correspondence that gives a "vivid sense of the gathering of the clouds before the Second World War and the Occupation". Mr Reynolds said the family was encouraged to return the collection to the island after meeting Jersey historian Guy Dixon, who has researched the de Gruchy family. He said it led his family to understand their history and "ignited our interest in returning the records to Jersey where we feel they will be better cared for and appreciated". Follow BBC Jersey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to New devices provide virtual tour for heritage site Heritage releases historical Jersey records Jersey Heritage
BBC News
08-06-2025
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Community art sessions hosted to reimagine Occupation tapestry
Islanders are being invited to paint or colour in their own version of a tapestry marking the Heritage said it was taking its Occupation Tapestry back out into the community in the form of colouring sheets and a large original, hung at the Maritime Museum, was unveiled in 1995 to mark the 50th Liberation Day - with 12 panels of hand-embroidered pictures to depict island life. In 2015, a 13th panel was added to the collection mark Liberation Rodrigues, JH Outreach Curator, said the designs of the original 12 panels had been made into canvases. She said: "We have 12 different panels which represent each parish and they all tell a very interesting story of the Occupation. "It's an opportunity for people to come in and learn a bit about the tapestry, the history as to why it came about and they get an opportunity to paint and engage with the actual panel in their own way." Ms Rodrigues said the sessions were for all ages and abilities."We can get creative, [if] anyone wanted to bring along some material and do a bit of collage, it's a complete open creative session, so it's whatever anyone wants to bring to the table."Workshops will be held at the parish halls in St Saviour, Trinity, St Clement, St Peter and St Lawrence until Thursday 31 July.
BBC News
25-05-2025
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Film brings to life 600-million-year story of Jersey
A campaign video has been launched as part of Jersey's bid for worldwide recognition of the geological significance of its Heritage is hoping to gain accreditation as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global successful, Jersey would be added to the list of more than 200 Geoparks across the video named A Symphony of Creation features the story of an island forged by fire, ice and sea. Visit Jersey said the film brought to life the raw, elemental story of Jersey's formation. Geosites featured in the campaign included La Couperon, Les Blanches Banques, Plémont, Le Pulec, Devil's Hole and Le Pinacle. Each tells a chapter in the island's 600-million-year story, Visit Jersey said. 'Build community' Paul Chambers, head of Jersey Island Geopark, said: "The campaign aims to raise awareness and build community support as Jersey enters the next stage of the submission process for UNESCO designation. "The film takes viewers on a visual and auditory journey through the Island's deep-time creation story – told not with words, but through the universal languages of music and nature."Visit Jersey said the benefits of becoming a UNESCO Global Geopark included sustainable tourism, environmental advocacy, education and engagement and global recognition. The campaign was led by the Jersey Island Geopark team and supported by Visit Jersey and ArtHouse Jersey.
