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Barbados Museum

Museums / Galleries, South Coast


Fodor's Review:

This intriguing museum, in the former British Military Prison (1815) in the historic Garrison area, has artifacts from Arawak days (around 400 BC) and galleries that depict 19th-century military history and everyday life. You can see cane-harvesting tools, wedding dresses, ancient (and frightening) dentistry instruments, and slave sale accounts kept in a spidery copperplate handwriting. The museum's Harewood Gallery showcases the island's flora and fauna; its Cunard Gallery has a permanent collection of 20th-century Barbadian and Caribbean paintings and engravings; and its Connell Gallery features European decorative arts. Additional galleries include one for children; the museum also has a gift shop and a café.

 

INFO

  • Address: Hwy. 7, Garrison Savannah, St. Michael
  • Phone: 246/427-0201; 246/436-1956
  • Web site
  • Cost: $4
  • Open: Mon.-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 2-6

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