We went on a trip down to the Jersey Museum to start our year 13 project on Identity and Community. We visited the ‘People make jersey – our stories of immigration’ exhibition to learn more about our communities immigration stories. Lucy Layton put together the exhibition in order to show that every Islander had their own ‘Jersey story’ to tell and the variety of people who make up Jersey’s community. The exhibition starts with Jersey’s first permanent settlers, who arrived around 7,000 years ago and where originally driven by a changing climate to seek a new place where they could plant their crops and raise their families. It then follows the waves of immigrants who have arrived in Jersey over the centuries.
In the exhibition their was a glass table which had displayed many different types of passport cards and there was the Aliens registration cards, which showed lots of French people living in Jersey in 1920.
They also had a wall with many Jersey surnames and describing the history and origins of these names.
In the exhibition they created a wall which shows the current generations holding their older generations registration cards and next to them was a little bit about their family history.
Around the museum they had placed objects belonging to immigrants and people who were sharing their stories. They had many different objects like an old potato grater used to make polish dishes, a Portuguese passport , a old Spanish doll and a old kettle.
