National Hero Museum
Saint John, Saint John, Antigua & Barbuda
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If you walk down Market Street in St. John’s, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, you will come across a grand stone building that was once the court house and now known as the Old Court House. It was built in 1747 on the site of the first city market, and to its pride is the oldest building still in use in the city. The Old Court House was designed by prominent English-born architect, Peter Harrison and financed by a tax levied on Antigua’s slave owners. It has become the perfect home for the national museum communicating the fascinating history of two islands, Antigua and Barbuda.
The museum was opened in 1985 and is operated by the Historical & Archaeological Society, a private non-profit organization. The curator is Michele Henry who warmly welcomed me (Rosemary) during a morning visit in February 2019. I was delivering three Bristol Radical History Group booklets to be donated to the museum’s archive and research room which is located upstairs. The books will be digitized and available for students and historians. [I]
The museum houses a fine collection of Amerindian (mainly Arawak) artefacts including a spectacular canoe carved from a single huge tree. These boats could carry up to 80 people, very impressive indeed! As a visitor I was intrigued to learn of the lives of the indigenous people who inhabited the Caribbean islands before they were invaded and settled by Europeans.
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