Three Jersey Heritage sites have won prestigious national awards that recognise the UK’s top visitor attractions.
The Jersey Museum, Art Gallery & Victorian House has won a ‘Gold Accolade’ for overall excellence in the VisitEngland Visitor Attraction Accolades 2024-2025.
Other notable attractions awarded the prize were London’s Imperial War Museum and The National Gallery.
Jersey’s Maritime Museum also received the ‘Welcome Accolade’, whilst La Hougue Bie Tearoom was awarded the ‘Quality Food and Drink Accolade’.
Jersey Heritage also revealed that all six visitor sites – Jersey Museum, Maritime Museum, La Hougue Bie, Mont Orgueil, Elizabeth Castle and Hamptonne Country Life Museum – attained VisitEngland’s ‘Quality Rose Marque’.
The prizes were announced at the annual VisitEngland awards ceremony this month. The assessment process was carried out independently at each site earlier this year.
Morgan Ward, Jersey Heritage’s head of visitor services, said the accolades “mean a huge amount to our team”.
“Our congratulations go to all our staff for the high standard they maintain at our sites, which continues to impress the VisitEngland assessors,” he said.
Mr Ward said that Jersey Museum’s win was “especially pleasing” as several changes have been made to the attraction this year – including a new permanent exhibition and new visitor information centre run in partnership with Visit Jersey.
“Winning the ‘Gold Accolade’ is confirmation that these changes have benefited our visitors and enhanced their overall experience,” he added.
“The ‘Welcome’ award for the Maritime Museum is testament to the time and effort put in by our staff. They are great ambassadors for a site that remains a firm favourite with our visitors.
“As we are now running La Hougue Bie Tearoom, we are delighted to have won the ‘Quality Food and Drink Accolade’ for this site as well.”