- Wikidata identifier:
- Q4713711
- Also known as:
- Alderney Society Museum
- Instance of:
- museum; history museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 652
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q4713711/
Collection-level records:
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Collection history (Collection development policy)
The collections of the present Museum, which was established in 1970 has resulted from the amalgamation of several collections, including:
- The geology includes the plutonic rocks and sandstones and also imported limestone for the Victoria harbour and fort building.
- Archaeological displays show Mesolithic and Neolithic tools, an early copper- bronze axe and other Bronze Age and Iron Age tools, examples of Iron Age pottery and rotary querns, and there is a large collection of pots shards, flints and other stone finds from Bronze Age to recent.
- Displays and stored items include tools from past trades and occupations, domestic equipment and early tourist items from the twentieth century and some of the 18th century Governor’s porcelain.
- Garrison and Militia items from the late 18th century to WW1 include several sets of campaign and other medals.
- Displays and stored items from the period of Nazi occupation of Alderney and the return of Alderney Islanders post WW2.
- Coins from the Roman, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and commemorative coins.
- Artefacts from an Elizabethan period wreck.
- Drawings, paintings, prints, maps and plans showing the activities of garrisons, the harbour and fortifications.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2021
Licence: CC BY-NC
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Collection overview (Collection development policy)
All collections are closely related to the island of Alderney, its geology, archaeology, pre-history, history (social and political) and Natural History and the sea and the seabed around it, and all periods.
The collections may include a small proportion of items that have little connection with the island other than having been collected by islanders. It is recognised, however, that these objects have important historical value in their own right and it is the Museum’s policy to retain them.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2021
Licence: CC BY-NC