Forty-five of the 594 community & public entries curate heritage as a named capability — 17 heritage sites, 9 museums, 11 guided-tour operators, eight WWII Occupation specialists cutting across. Governance splits eight States entities against nine independent charities, with a single Silver-Accredited sole trader in Tours of Guernsey. —
Twenty-one sites across the Bailiwick — the oldest founded 1640, the newest opened 2017; five in States hands.
Eleven museums and heritage centres — six in St Peter Port, five run by the States, with a WW2-occupation cluster of six.
Eight trusts and societies — National Trust (1960) to Little Chapel Foundation (2016), maritime and fortification stewards between.
Four collections — Island Archives (1986), Toucan Press (1964), Festung Guernsey (2005), and a 2023 digitisation partnership.
Three institutions in St Peter Port — La Société Guernesiaise (1882), Priaulx Library (1889), the Société's Family History Section (1987).
Three heritage tour operators — two focused on WWII Occupation fortifications, one on a restored Victorian kitchen garden.
One firm per niche, picked for editorial depth.
National Trust farmhouses and outbuildings; 15th to mid-19th Century
Museum and art gallery in Candie Gardens; permanent and temporary exhibitions
Charity safeguarding heritage; over 2,000 members, founded 1960
Volunteer-run initiative preserving German WWII fortifications built 1940-45
local history centre; preserving records, artefacts, and books since 1889
Volunteer-run restoration of a Victorian walled kitchen garden; established 2006