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Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Museum / Museo / Museu / Musée
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
The Barbados Museum and Historical Society is a non-profit organization established in 1933. Its origins are as a community museum, forming through the civic care of the natural history collection of a St. Lucy rector and the efforts of antiquarian and genealogist Eustace Shilstone to provide public access to the island’s history. The mandate of the museum is to collect, document and conserve evidence of Barbados’ cultural, historical and environmental heritage; and to interpret and present this evidence for all sectors of society. In addition to the seven permanent collection galleries, the museum currently integrates community interest in its exhibition programming and project development. It is one of the protected buildings in the UNESCO World Heritage site Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison.
Barbados, Diaspora, Caribbean, International
African, Archaeology, Art, Audiovisual, Ceramics, Decorative Arts, Ethnography, Furniture, Library, Maps, Numismatic, Photographs, Silver, Slavery, Social History
Barbados nationals, visitors
1933
Director - Alissandra Cummins
NGO | ONG
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The Barbados Museum & Historical Society was established in 1933 by an Act of Parliament. The Museum began as a historic society founded by Mr. Eustace Maxwell Shilstone. At that time, the mandate of the historic society was to “to study and put on permanent record the history of the Island, its leading families and public men, old buildings and other matters of interest to antiquarians in Barbados and overseas”.

By June 23 of that year, a temporary exhibition was opened by the Acting Governor at Queen's Park House. Three months later the Society secured the 99 year lease of the former military prison, which became the permanent home of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.
Barbadian Nationals - Free Entrance; Visitors - Paid Entrance
Permanent collection care & Acquisitions; temporary exhibitions; co-curated exhibitions with Jewish and East Indian communities; maintenance of offsite collections; professional heritage consultation; Junior Curator's programme; Heritage Champions programme; Annual Journal; Genealogy Group; History Group; digitization projects; Local offsite community projects; International strategic partnership projects; Special events; museum gift shop; Shilstone Memorial Library
Main collection | Colección principal | Colecção principal
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Fine Art
This gallery features a wide collection of 17th to 19th century art and craft, including paintings by Agostino Brunias donated by Sir Peter Moores, and a major collection of West Indian prints donated by the late Sir Edward Cunard and Victorian shell craft donated by Eileen Maremont, along with mahogany furniture for which the island is famed.

Some of the finest West Indian prints are those by military artists Lieut. J. H. Caddy whose depictions of coastal and interior landscape scenes of St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Dominica and St. Kitts are skilfully executed in a picturesque series of coloured aquatints; and Lieut. J. M. Carters’ series of ten lithographs which deal exclusively with Barbadian landscape typically of buildings, landscapes and street scenes mainly in and around the Garrison area.

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Collection 2 | Colección 2 | Colecção 2
Collection 3 | Colección 3 | Colecção 3
Contact | Contacto | Contacto
http://www.barbmuse.org.bb
info@barbmuse.org.bb
+1 (246) 538 0201
Location | Ubicación | Localização
St. Ann's Garrison
St. Michael, Barbados
West Indies
Monday to Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sundays 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669