Exciting new season at Candie Museum

Friday 25 January 2019

Guernsey Museum at Candie reopens today, following its busiest ever year in 2018, with a varied selection of new exhibitions for 2019, including a 1970s style toyshop in the Discovery Room.

That is based on Bakers Bazaar - a shop which used to be in Le Pollet and which some people may remember from their childhoods.

The 'Timewarp' will take visitors back to the 1970s, with historic toys, like the trainset above, on show in the 'cabinets of curiosities'.

125 Years of Guernsey Football is being celebrated in the museum foyer, with memorabilia, trophies and images from the island’s footballing past. That display was proposed by the GFA to mark the anniversary of its foundation in 1893, and their members have been helping to collect all of the objects now on show.

In the Brian White Gallery, the ever-popular Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition returns to Guernsey Museums. The competition is now in its 54th year and for 2018 there are 100 images, all recording the beauty and fragility of the natural world.

‘Achtung Baby’, artworks by Jenni Snell, will be open in the Guernsey Arts Commission’s Greenhouse gallery from today while a new addition to the Rona Cole Art Gallery is The Music of the Mountains work by Glenn Brown, which is on loan to the Museum beside the stunning Resurrection by Damien Hirst.

Pictured: Guernsey Museum, at Candie. 

The Museum re-opens today, having been closed since the end of 2018.

Towards the end of last year, Guernsey Museums said it had been the site's busiest year since the early 1990s when such records first started being kept. That was in part down to the popularity of Discovery Pass cards which allow entry multiple times for one price.

From today the museum is open between 10:00 and 16:00 with normal admission rates applying. That means Discovery Pass holders and accompanying children are allowed in for free.

Otherwise, prices at Guernsey Museums are staying the same for 2019, although the cafe is currently closed for renovation work.

Pictured top: Bakers Bazaar and toys of the 1970s are the focus of one of the displays at Guernsey Museum this year.