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Connected ceramic pot
Connected ceramic vessel used for ceremonies. Object in the Museo Túcume.
BMHS 2020 Lecture Series: Sir Hilary Beckles
Sir Hilary Beckles on the topic "Barbadians in the UK after 1945"
2020 Lecture Series presented by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, under the theme- "Buhbadus ta de World": Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
BMHS 2020 Lecture Series: Prof. Pedro Welch
2020 Lecture Series presented by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society under the theme "Buhbadus ta de World": Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "Betrayal! Changing British Immigration Policy in the Age of Brexit."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "Betrayal! Changing British Immigration Policy in the Age of Brexit."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "From Notting hill to Albert Hall: Music and Literature."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "From Notting hill to Albert Hall: Music and Literature."
2020 Lecture Series: Frederick Allyene on "Barbadian Migration to Brazil in the Early 20th Century"
2020 Lecture Series, under the theme : "Buhbadus ta de World': Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
BMHS 2019 Lecture: "Coming Home to Mother- Documenting the Migrant Experience" by Claude Graham
This lecture was a part of the 2019 Barbados Museum & Historical Society 2019 Lecture under the theme: "From Invitation to Deportation: 70 Years of Windrush Generation."
Kreol West Indies
Kreol West Indies unveils thousands of objects of Creole heritage by mixing works by renowned contemporary artists. It's also the logo of a fun clothing line ... Come and be surprised ... there are two locations: Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante!
Casa Tornini Museo - Centro Cultural
Casa Tornini, Museo - Centro Cultural ha establecido como misión proteger, conservar, difundir y desarrollar el patrimonio e identidad cultural de Caldera y Atacama, mediante la gestión de instancias de acercamiento a las artes, la educación, las…
Casa-Museo de la Semana Santa Marinera
El museo es el lugar en el que se salvaguardan buena parte de las imágenes procesionales de las distintas cofradías, hermandades y corporaciones de la ciudad, en particular de los Poblados Marítimos.
El espacio museístico se articula en una única…
Centro Cultural Museo y Memoria de Neltume
Presenta un recorrido histórico del territorio forestal y la comunidad cordillerana, formada en torno a diversas faenas de explotación industrial del bosque nativo. Durante el siglo XX, fueron testigos de importantes acontecimientos y procesos…
Centro de Cultura Tradicional Curarrehue
El Centro de Cultura Tradicional Curarrehue tiene como finalidad rescatar y valorizar las tradiciones y elementos característicos que configuran la idiosincrasia de la cultura popular y tradicional de la Región del Bío-Bío.
Centro Interpretativo de Atouguia da Baleia
O Centro Interpretativo de Atouguia da Baleia tem como objetivo o estudo, valorização e divulgação do património histórico e cultural do concelho, proporcionando uma visão integrada da Região Histórica de Atouguia da Baleia. Para tal, abarca…
Ecomuseo del Habitat Rural de Sinarcas
El Ecomuseo del Hábitat Rural de Sinarcas, Valencia, tiene como misión mostrar al visitante una vivienda agrícola del siglo XIX y la forma de vida rural de una familia de aquella época, un viaje en el tiempo para conocer la historia y el pasado de…
Ecomuseu de Redondo
O Ecomuseu de Redondo é um espaço a céu aberto, vivo e ativo, que permitirá efetuar um reconhecimento direto do património arqueológico e ambiental, funcionando como um espelho onde se pode observar o território e a vivência humana desde tempos…
Ecomuseu do Corvo
Autodefine-se como um processo dinâmico através do qual a comunidade corvina preserva, interpreta e gere o seu património - material e imaterial, humano e natural - para o desenvolvimento sustentável, tendo por base um acordo da comunidade.
Ecomuseu do Sal
O Núcleo Museológico do Sal tem o objetivo de interpretar, valorizar e difundir testemunhos singulares reportados à relação secular do Homem com o território das salinas do concelho da Figueira da Foz.
Situado na Salina Municipal do Corredor da…
Ecomuseu do Zêzere
Esta estrutura museológica destina-se a dar a conhecer ao visitante a história do Rio Zêzere e está instalado na antiga Tulha dos Cabrais.
Historicamente os Cabrais foram a mais importante família de Belmonte, grandes proprietários construíram…
Ecomuseu Marinha da Troncalhada
Transformada em Ecomuseu, a marinha da Troncalhada mostra aos seus visitantes os métodos de produção artesanal do sal, explora a paisagem, fauna e flora características, bem como mantém vivas as vivências e tradições ligadas a esta atividade…
Espaço, Memória e Fronteira
Encontra-se instalado num edifício antes ocupado pelo matadouro municipal, remodelado e ampliado em 2007. Percorrendo as suas salas, ingressamos no mundo da emigração ilegal dos anos 60 e 70, conhecendo todos os momentos, desde as causas, a…
Fundació Museu del Tèxtil
Situado en la 1ª planta del Palau de La Vila, muestra una colección integrada por diferentes objetos que datan desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días, a través de los cuales se narran los diferentes procesos artesanales de la producción textil. En…
Highland Folk Museum / El Museo Folclorico Regional de las Highlands de Escocia
The Highland Folk Museum is Britain’s first open air museum. It demonstrates through traditional and living displays how Highland people lived and worked from the 1700s up to 1950. The site is one mile long, and has a working croft, live animals and…
ICH SCOTLAND WIKI
This site celebrates Intangible Cultural Heritage - the practices, representations and expressions that are central to the lives and identities of communities, groups and individuals across Scotland. In its many and varied forms from cultural…
MEMORIAMEDIA e-Museu do Património Cultural Imaterial
O projeto MEMORIAMEDIA tem como objetivos o estudo, a inventariação e divulgação de manifestações do património cultural imaterial: expressões orais; práticas performativas; celebrações; o saber-fazer de artes e ofícios e as práticas e conhecimentos…
O Pintar e Cantar dos Reis no Concelho de Alenquer
O Pintar e Cantar dos Reis tem em Portugal a sua maior expressão no concelho de Alenquer e em 2016 a celebração realizou-se, com variantes, em 9 povoações: Catém, Casal Monteiro, Mata, Penafirme da Mata, Olhalvo, Paúla, Cabanas de Torres, Ota e…
Museo a Cielo Abierto de San Miguel
El interés de los residentes y la necesidad de detener y eliminar el deterioro que los edificios de la población San Miguel, producido por décadas de contaminación que generaban los rayados y afiches que se habían apoderado del sector, fueron el…
Museo Arqueológico de Los Andes
La misión del museo es divulgar el conocimiento de la Prehistoria Chilena y colaborar con la educación y la cultura nacional, y preservar el Patrimonio Arqueológico e Histórico de Chile.
Museo Chan Chan
The Chan Chan Site Museum was created and put into social use in 1990. Since then, the role of managing, conserving, displaying and disseminating the cultural heritage that it has been in custody has been fulfilled, contributing to the interpretation…
Museo Comunitario Casa Uno de Coya
Nuestra misión es crear un espacio de resguardo, exhibición y puesta en valor de objetos y documentos con valor patrimonial para la comunidad local, que refleje el modo de vida local y que sea esencialmente un espacio abierto que permita el encuentro…
Museo Comunitário de Supe
El Museu incluye una colección arqueológica de 320 objetos acompañada de novedosos recursos museográficos que ilustran los diversos aspectos de la sociedad de Caral. Entre los obejetos destacan los objetos de diferenciación social, como los collares…
Museo comunitario de Végueta
El museo comunitario de Végueta fue inaugurado en el año 2008. Exhibe valiosas piezas arqueológicas que fueron encontradas en el complejo arqueológico de Vichama.
El museo muestra novedosos recursos museográficos que ilustran los diversos aspectos…
Museo Comunitário del Barrio Yungay
El recinto situado en la calle Herrera 650 en la comuna de Santiago Centro, busca contar la vida del barrio y de sus residentes con fotografías, cartas, muebles y otras pertenencias que han sido donadas por los mismos vecinos.
Yungay es…
Museo Comunitario Indígena de Térraba
El Museo Comunitario Indígena de Térraba es un instrumento de recuperación de los legados históricos, artesanales, ecológicos para conscientizar a las nuevas generaciones. El museo forma parte del complejo de la Cultura Térraba, integrada por la Casa…
Museo Comunitario Leymebamba | Leymebamba Community Museum
El Museo Comunitario Leymebamba se ubica en la región Amazonas, se inauguró en el año 2000 y alberga más de 200 momias provenientes de la Laguna de los Cóndores y material arqueológico y etnográfico de la zona.
La arquitectura del museo es un…
Museo de Alhué
El Museo de Alhué busca proteger y atesorar el patrimonio cultural material e inmaterial de la localidad, así como constituirse en un lugar de encuentro entre las personas y la cultural local, especialmente escolares, habitantes de la comuna y…
Museo de Artes Decorativas Villa Lucía
El Museo de Artes Decorativas Villa Lucía nace del esfuerzo y visión del Dr. Daniel Fernández Dodds, quien hoy dirige este espacio cultural de la provincia de San Antonio. El 2001 adquirió la propiedad e inició un minucioso y continuo proceso de…
Museo de Cerámica de Manises
El museo presenta, en sus diversas salas, colecciones de arte y cerámica legados por los anteriores dueños del edificio así como procedentes de excavaciones del entorno y otras donaciones. Situado en una antigua casa señorial del siglo XVIII, cuyos…
Museo de la Catedral
El museo recibe el nombre de Museo de la Catedral, no sólo por su temática sino también por su emplazamiento. Se encuentra ubicado en el subsuelo de la Catedral de Valdivia, en el sitio original donde, desde 1552, se levantaron las 15 iglesias que le…
Museo de la vivencia religiosa del Norte Grande
Este museo busca contribuir a fortalecer la identidad religiosa del hombre y de la mujer del norte grande de Chile, actuando como un foco que permita la generación en la comunidad de la autoconciencia de su identidad, con el fin de valorar,…
Museo de la Vivencia Religiosa del Norte Grande
El Museo de la Vivencia Religiosa del Norte Grande busca contribuir a fortalecer la identidad religiosa del hombre y de la mujer del norte grande de Chile, actuando como un foco que permita la generación en la comunidad de la autoconciencia de su…
Museo de Pisac
El museo de Pisac ofrece una exposición sobre el proceso de producción de los tejidos típicos de las comunidades quechuas llamados away. El visitante podrá conocer la materia prima utilizada, el proceso de teñido de fibras con plantas nativas, el…
Museo del Niño Rural
La misión del museo es contribuir a la formación de los niños del mundo rural, y además conservar y preservar todos los elementos patrimoniales que se relacionan con el hombre y su entorno.
Museo del Profesor Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
El Museo del Profesor Lucila Godoy Alcayaga tiene como misión contribuir al fortalecimiento y desarrollo de la identidad docente , a través del rescate y valoración de las prácticas pedagógicas , éticas y políticas de profesoras y profesores ,…
Museo Escolar Hugo Gunckel
El Museo forma parte de la Red de Museos Escolares "Aprendiendo con nuestros sentidos para conservar nuestra biodiversidad". Es una iniciativa que surgió en el Instituto de Zoología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Austral de Chile, bajo…
Museo Fallero
El museo acoge en su interior los Ninots Indultats de la fiesta de las Fallas de Valencia desde 1934. Estas figuras son las únicas que no ardieron en la “Nit de la Cremà” del 19 de marzo. La Fiesta tiene un reconocimiento de Interés Turístico…
Museo Histórico Cultural Antuhuenu
La misión del Museo Histórico Cultural Antuhuenu (sol alto o sol del medio día, figura étinica muy sobresaliente de la época precolombina) es salvaguardar el patrimonio comunal en vías de extinción.
Museo Histórico de Mellipeuco
El Museo Historico de Melipeuco busca preservar y poner en valor el patrimonio cultural de la comuna y sus alrededores. Esto a traves de muestras comunitarias que se realizan en un trabajo entre la Municplaidad de Melipeuco y los vecinos de la…
Museo Histórico Don Paulino
Contribuir en la creación de una cultura de nuestro pueblo Mechuque, destacando los grandes navegantes y las culturas tradicionales de Chiloé.
Museo Histórico y Arqueológico Arturo Möller Sandrock
El Museo recibe el nombre de Museo Histórico y Arqueológico Arturo Möller Sandrock, en homenaje a su gestor y principal donante de las piezas que se exponen en el museo. Este riobuenino reunió durante su vida un conjunto de colecciones que su familia…
MUSEO HUACAS DE MOCHE
La campiña de Moche en los alrededores de Trujillo, conserva con orgullo las huacas del Sol y de la Luna (s. I-VIII d.C.) y su moderno museo de sitio, convertidos en un polo turístico y recurso para el desarrollo comunitario.
Los programas de…
Museo Rajoleria de Paiporta
El actual Museo de la Rajoleria fue una fábrica de ladrillos conocida también con el nombre de «Rajolar de Bauset», fundada a principios del siglo XX. Estuvo en funcionamiento hasta la década de 1990, siempre en manos privadas, hasta que fue…
Museo Rural Butalevo
La misión del museo es rescatar, proteger, promover y colocar en valor la cultura ancestral y campesina local en todas sus manifestaciones y diversidad, mediante la salvaguarda del patrimonio cultural y natural material e inmaterial promoviendo un…
Museo Tringlo de Lago Ranco
El Museo Tringlo de Lago Ranco emplazado a escasos metros de la costanera del lago conserva y expone una valiosa colección de cerámica indígena prehispánica e histórica, con piezas excepcionales recuperadas de Lago Ranco y su entorno. Fue creado en…
Museo Viviente de las Tradiciones Chonchinas
El objetivo es conservar, resguardar y difundir la cultura de Chonchi, contando la historia de nuestros antepasados, através de este espacio cultural que muestra la vida de una familia de clase alta de fines de 1800 y principio de 1900 y a esta casa…
Museo y Centro Cultural Presidente Pedro Aguirre Cerda
El Museo situado en la comuna de Calle Larga, en la casa natal del ex-presidente y está orientado a difundir y promover su memoria y legado, a través de la exhibición de objetos, videos, fotografías y documentos que dan cuenta de su importancia y…
Museu Agrícola de Riachos
Museu Agrícola de Riachos reúne um riquíssimo espólio representativo dos vários aspectos da ruralidade que marcou, até há três décadas, o modo de vida tradicional das gentes riachenses.
O Projeto Museológico tem como pilares três Serviços:…
Museu Comunitário de São Miguel de Machede
O Museu Comunitário assume-se como um espaço e um tempo consagrados à comunicação entre micaelenses. Entre os que vivem em S. Miguel de Machede e aqueles que se encontram fora da sua terra; entre os vivos e aqueles que já desapareceram; entre os mais…
Museu da Memória Rural
Um projeto de museologia rural centrado num edifício sede com núcleos polarizados pelo restante território concelhio, composto por cinco núcleos musealizados.
O Museu da Memória Rural, concelho de Carrazeda de Ansiães, é uma unidade museológica…
Canastreiro
Vídeo do Museu da Memória Rural de Vilarinho da Castanheira. Complemento audiovisual do discurso museográfico patente nesta unidade museológica do concelho de Carrazeda de Ansiães
Museu da Vida Rural da Ilha Graciosa
Esta infraestrutura museológica vem dar corpo e complementar algumas das valências que já funcionam no seio da Associação Cultural, Desportiva e Recreativa da Graciosa (ACDRG), nomeadamente as ligadas à educação ambiental, à educação em geral e à…
Museu das Terras de Basto
O Museu das Terras de Basto é um museu da Câmara Municipal de Cabeceiras de Basto, possuindo três núcleos: o Núcleo Ferroviário de Arco de Baúlhe, o Núcleo Museológico do Baixo Tâmega e a Casa da Lã. É sobretudo este último núcleo que se aproxima ao…
Bucos: trabalhos da lã: rodar
Neste vídeo poderá visualizar uma das fases do trabalho da lã feito pelas artesãs da freguesia de Bucos (Cabeceiras de Basto): o rodar.
Museu de Palmela
O museu privilegia a preservação in situ de coleções e edifícios, a incorporação de espólios etnográficos e oficinais que espelhem a cultura local, e a integração no Museu, a título de depósito, dação ou doação, de outras coleções ou objetos…
Museu de Portimão
O Museu de Portimão surge a 17 de Maio de 2008, localizado numa antiga fabrica de conserva do século XIX. Tem sido um pólo de difusão cultural e espaço de descoberta das origens e da evolução da comunidade, do seu território e dos aspetos mais…
Museu do Casal de Monte Redondo
A ADPCMR, que tutela o Museu, tem por objectivo contribuir para o desenvolvimento da Comunidade. Respeitando o Ontem, agindo no Hoje e pensando no Amanhã. Tem como objetivos, contribuir para o desenvolvimento da Comunidade; Recolher, preservar e…
Museu do Linho de Várzea de Calde
Na aldeia de Várzea de Calde, a cerca de 12 km de Viseu, a arquitetura popular da Beira Alta serve de cenário para o Museu do Linho. Aqui é recriado o quotidiano agrícola da região, em áreas como o pátio de serventia, os currais, o lagar, a adega, a…
Museu do Mar e da Terra da Carrapateira
Trata-se de um museu construído de raiz, que dissipa com o seu olhar, a Costa Vicentina, na sua parte mais meridional, rica em vestígios do mesolítico ao período árabe, elegendo a aldeia da Carrapateira como o microcosmo dos habitats ribeirinhos…
Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti
O Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti é um museu municipal, criado em Setúbal em 1987. Sediado numa antiga fábrica de conservas de peixe que foi adaptada a museu em 1995. O edifício é constituído por cinco andares e está integrado num antigo bairro…
Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti
O Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti é um museu municipal, criado em Setúbal em 1987. Sediado numa antiga fábrica de conservas de peixe que foi adaptada a museu em 1995. O edifício é constituído por cinco andares e está integrado num antigo bairro…
Museu do Trabalho Rural
Espaço dedicado às tradições e à cultura, identificando as diversas vivências da comunidade, este primeiro Pólo Museológico do Museu Municipal de Santiago do Cacém foi criado, para servir em primeiro lugar a comunidade, tentando levar a sua população…
Museu do Trabalho Rural de Abela
O Museu do Trabalho Rural, da Freguesia de Abela, está instalado no edifício que foi o antigo quartel da Guarda Nacional Republicana.
Pretende manter viva a memória da vida e dos costumes da comunidade e da região do Alentejo.
Museu do Traje (São Brás de Alportel)
Museu do Traje de São Brás de Alportel ocupa uma área de 5000 m2. O edifício senhorial que ao longo dos últimos 130 anos foi moradia das famílias Dias, Andrade e Sancho, encontra-se rodeado por infraestruturas que satisfaziam as necessidades de uma…
Museu Etnográfico da Alta Estremadura
Fundado e administrado pelo Rancho Folclórico Rosas do Lena, o Museu Etnográfico da Alta Estremadura – Casa da Madalena, reconstitui aspectos significativos da etnografia do norte estremenho.
Instalado num edifício dos séculos XVIII/XIX,…
Museu Etnográfico de Vila Chã de Sá ou Ecomuseu de Vila Chã de Sá
A estrutura, construída pedra a pedra por artesãos e mão de obra locais, fica à entrada de Vila Chã de Sá. No espaço, há representações de uma memória ligada à produção de bens colectivos que geravam riqueza e faziam a economia mexer: o moinho de…
Museu Etnográfico de Vilarinho da Furna
O Museu Etnográfico é uma criação manifestada pelos antigos habitantes da extinta aldeia comunitária de Vilarinho das Furnas, destacando o prezado empenho do Senhor Dr. Manuel Azevedo Antunes. No ano de 1981, a Câmara Municipal de Terras de Bouro deu…
Museu Rural das Salselas
Trata-se de um museu cuja ideia foi concebida por emigrantes em França originários de Salselas, ideia que mais tarde foi acolhida pelo município local. O núcleo expositivo encontra-se dividido por duas temáticas: O Universo do Homem e a Sociedade. O…
Museu Rural de Caravela
Espaço museológico localizado no lugar de um antigo lagar comunitário. Este museu da aldeia de Caravela foi criado com base em peças oferecidas pela própria população. Após uma recolha de peças entre os habitantes foi criada esta exposição aberta a…
Museu rural de Palácios
Museu rural, de iniciativa privada, apoiado pela Junta de Freguesia, esta estabelecido num antigo lagar comunitário, este espaço alberga algum espólio de cariz etnológico, que testemunham as atividades agrossilvopastoris e artesanais tradicionais,…
Museu Rural do Marão/Casa do Oleiro
Este museu apresenta-nos um vasto leque de espólio, rural, artístico e popular; nele podemos apreciar saberes populares como a tecelagem, compreender a casa rural, descobrir usos e costumes das gerações que nos precedem. Desta-se o seu núcleo na Casa…
Museu Rural e do Vinho
Situado no Complexo Desportivo e Cultural da Quinta das Pratas, este espaço constitui um dos locais de maior interesse do concelho, reunindo elementos que permitem conhecer a história e a tradição da terra, assim como as principais atividades que…
Cartaxo Museu Rural e do Vinho do Concelho do Cartaxo
Situado no Complexo Desportivo e Cultural da Quinta das Pratas, este espaço constitui um dos locais de maior interesse do concelho, reunindo elementos que permitem conhecer a história e a tradição da terra, assim como as principais atividades que…
O Museu Etnográfico do Grupo Típico de Ançã
O Museu Etnográfico do Grupo Típico de Ançã está situado na parte mais antiga desta vila. É uma casa setecentista, que apresenta no seu exterior janelas de guilhotina com aventais de pedra branca. No 1º andar é possível recordar como viviam os nossos…
ROME Museum
Rome Museum, located in Walker in the Parish of St. Andrew, is an extended collection of items and artefacts from Grenada’s past. Collected items range from fragments of ‘Janet’ houses to workers’ lunch boxes to an outside mud oven. The collection is…
Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust Ldt
The Scottish Fisheries Museum tells the stories of the boats, fish and folk that have underpinned this nationally important industry from prehistoric times to the present. The museum thrives on its links to fishing communities around Scotland to care…
Scottish Fisheries Museum/ El Museo Escocés de la Pesca
The Scottish Fisheries Museum was set up to celebrate the fishing heritage of Scotland. It is based in Anstruther, Fife, which was a very important fishing town up until the 20th century. The museum charts how, over time, the fishing industry came to…
Scottish Fisheries Museum
This collaboration between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean is designed to facilitate the bringing together of rural communities, to enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences to protect their Cultural Heritage, increase social cohesion…
The Museum of Islay Life / El Museo de la Comunidad de la Isla de Islay
The Museum of Islay Life is managed by the Islay Museums Trust and has as its principal aim the conservation and display of items illustrative of life in Islay, from prehistoric to recent times. Since then, the Museum, with the generous help of…
Museum of Islay Life, Islay, Scotland
Museum of Islay Life, Islay, Scotland
This collaboration between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean is designed to facilitate the bringing together of rural communities, to enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences to protect their…
Museu da Ruralidade
Localizado na Rua de Santa Madalena, em Entradas (Castro Verde), o Museu da Ruralidade assume um importante papel na salvaguarda do património imaterial do Campo Branco e, em particular, na criação de um espaço de diálogo entre o património material…
Museu da Ruralidade, Entradas, Castro Verde
Localizado na Rua de Santa Madalena, em Entradas (Castro Verde), o Museu da Ruralidade assume um importante papel na salvaguarda do património imaterial do Campo Branco e, em particular, na criação de um espaço de diálogo entre o património material…
Museu do Casal de Monte Redondo
A ADPCMR, que tutela o Museu, tem por objectivo contribuir para o desenvolvimento da Comunidade. Respeitando o Ontem, agindo no Hoje e pensando no Amanhã. Tem como objetivos, contribuir para o desenvolvimento da Comunidade; Recolher, preservar e…
Museu de Mértola
Foi criado pela Câmara Municipal de Mértola em 2004, é composto por vários núcleos dispersos geograficamente, na sua maioria localizados no Centro Histórico de Mértola. Tem sido a sua função estudar, inventariar, tratar, conservar e divulgar todo o…
Museu de Mértola
O Museu é composto por vários núcleos dispersos geograficamente, na sua maioria localizados no Centro Histórico de Mértola. Tem sido a sua função estudar, inventariar, tratar, conservar e divulgar todo o espólio que, ao longo dos últimos 30 anos, foi…
Museu da Comunidade Concelhia da Batalha
O Museu da Comunidade Concelhia da Batelha tem como missão o estudo, a preservação, a valorização e a divulgação do Património, promovendo a Cultura desta região. Para tal, apresenta um programa expositivo dinâmico, de cariz pedagógico, que envolve…
Museu das Minas de São Domingos
O Museu das Minas de São Domingos está composto por doIs pólos museológicos. O primeiro, a Casa do Mineiro, surgiu em colaboração como Museu de Mértola e mostra a realidade física do espaço de vivência de uma família mineira. Os objetos, as memórias,…
Museu das Minas de São Domingos
O Museu das Minas de São Domingos está composto por dos pólos museológicos. O primeiro, a Casa do Mineiro, surgiu em colaboração como Museu de Mértola e mostra a realidade física do espaço de vivência de uma família mineira. Os objetos, as memórias,…
Ecomuseu de Barroso
O âmbito de intervenção do Ecomuseu de Barroso abrange a maioria dos propósitos convencionalmente atribuídos aos museus. Com consciência plena da necessidade de cumprir esse conjunto de funções, pretende assumir-se como elemento âncora da estratégia…
Ecomuseu do Barroso
O Ecomuseu de Barroso afirma-se como fiel representante da Identidade do povo e motor de formação, participação, cooperação, inovação e mobilização. O Património Imaterial é a grande pérola deste museu, assumindo a recolha de lendas, tradições,…
Ecomuseu Ribeira de Pena
O Ecomuseu de Ribeira de Pena pretende preservar e divulgar o património cultural da comunidade ribeirapenense, assim como promover e dinamizar a ação cultural na sua região de implantação. Integra os vários museus do município instalados em…
Ecomuseu Ribeira de Pena - Museu do Linho
O Ecomuseu de Ribeira de Pena pretende preservar e divulgar o património cultural da comunidade ribeirapenense, assim como promover e dinamizar a ação cultural na sua região de implantação. Integra os vários museus do município instalados em…
Casa do Cante de Serpa
A missão da Casa do Cante é a salvaguarda do cante Alentejano, cuja visão é a sustentabilidade do território através da Identidade, e onde os objetivos são criar projetos que autossustentem e valorizem os elementos de uma identidade em constante…
Centro Interpretativo da Máscara Ibérica
Este espaço cultural dedicado à Máscara e às tradicionais festas ibéricas que envolvem o seu uso conta com locais de exposição, mediateca, fototeca e uma biblioteca, e pretende a valorização, promoção e divulgação da Máscara, património cultural…
Museu da Terra de Miranda
O Museu da Terra de Miranda evoca o tempo longo do planalto mirandês. A visita permite descobrir traços característicos da vida social e cultural de uma região com uma forte identidade.
O Museu expõe coleções de carácter cultural, etnográfico e…
Museu da Terra, Miranda do Douro
No Museu da Terra de Miranda temos colecções de etnologia, testemunhos da ancestralidade e tradições do povo mirandês, destacando-se o seu vestuário tradicional, os tituais, a dança dos paliteiros e recriação de espaços tradicionais.
Museu da Terra de Miranda
O Museu da Terra de Miranda evoca o tempo longo do planalto mirandês. A visita permite descobrir traços característicos da vida social e cultural de uma região com uma forte identidade.
Museu Agrícola de Fermentões
O Museu da Agricultura de Fermentões, que integra a valência cultural da Casa do Povo de Fermentões, está situado na freguesia de Fermentões, e dista cerca de 4 Km do centro histórico da cidade de Guimarães. O Museu possui diversas salas onde podem…
Museu Agrícola de Fermentões
O Museu possui diversas salas onde podem ser apreciadas peças ligadas ao trabalho e à vida agrícola da região, bem como um vasto espólio fotográfico e documental.
Museu da Luz
O Museu da Luz (Luz, Mourão, Alentejo) afirma-se como singular espaço de cultura e de identidade. Erigido entre a aldeia da Luz e a margem do lago de Alqueva, é o espaço interpretativo das profundas alterações ocorridas neste território, decorrentes…
Museu da Luz
O Museu da Luz (Luz, Mourão, Alentejo) afirma-se como singular espaço de cultura e de identidade. Erigido entre a aldeia da Luz e a margem do lago de Alqueva, é o espaço interpretativo das profundas alterações ocorridas neste território, decorrentes…
Unst Heritage Trust
Unst Heritage Trust and Unst Boat Haven are dedicated to the cultural heritage and history of this most northerly island in Scotland. The collection includes fine original wooden boats of various types that have been in use over the past 140…
Unst Heritage Centre, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Unst Heritage Centre, Shetland Islands, Scotland
This collaboration between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean is designed to facilitate the bringing together of rural communities, to enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences to protect…
Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti
O Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti é um museu municipal, criado em Setúbal em 1987. Sediado numa antiga fábrica de conservas de peixe que foi adaptada a museu em 1995. O edifício é constituído por cinco andares e está integrado num antigo bairro…
Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti
O Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti é um museu municipal, criado em Setúbal em 1987. Sediado numa antiga fábrica de conservas de peixe que foi adaptada a museu em 1995. O edifício é constituído por cinco andares e está integrado num antigo bairro…
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS: Costa Rica Festivals
The Costa Rica festival video forms part of a suite of videos being hosted on the project website and database to celebrate cultural heritage, intergenerational transmission of knowledge, and youth empowerment between regions.
This collaboration…
Museo del palmito de Aldaia
El Museu del Palmito de Aldaia (MUPA) es el centro de difusión de la artesanía y el arte del abanico de Aldaia y la Comunidad Valenciana. Está situado en la Casa de la Llotgeta, un edificio señorial de estilo renacentista de finales del siglo XVI y…
Ecomuseu da Terra de Miranda - Terra Mater
O Ecomuseu Terra Mater – Ecomuseu de la Tierra de Miranda centra-se nos quatro elementos primordiais – a água, a terra, o fogo e o ar – propondo atividades de dinamização e de valorização relacionadas com estes elementos e com as práticas…
Ecomuseu da Terra de Miranda - Terra Mater
O Ecomuseu Terra Mater – Ecomuseu de la Tierra de Miranda centra-se nos quatro elementos primordiais – a água, a terra, o fogo e o ar – propondo atividades de dinamização e de valorização relacionadas com estes elementos e com as práticas…
Darcus Howe
Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was a British broadcaster, writer, and racial justice campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, Howe arrived in England as a teenager in 1961, intending to study law and settling in…
Asquith Xavier
Asquith Camile Xavier was a West Indian-born Briton who ended a colour bar at British Railways in London by fighting to become the first non-white train guard at Euston railway station in 1966.
Trevor Phillips, when chairman of the Commission for…
Bishop Wilfred Wood KA
Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England
Born in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred] attended…
Aubrey Williams
Aubrey Williams (8 May 1926 – 17 April 1990) was a Guyanese artist. He was best known for his large, oil-on-canvas paintings, which combine elements of abstract expressionism with forms, images and symbols inspired by the pre-Columbian art of…
Willis Wilkie
The London Borough of Ealing and the black education movement in London bear the imprint of Willis Darnley Wilkie’s tireless struggle for children’s education rights and social justice.
Born on the 3rd of October 1926, Willis was one of that early…
Errollyn Wallen MBE
Born in Belize, Errollyn Wallen gave up her training at the Dance Theater of Harlem, New York to study composition at the universities of London and Cambridge. She founded her own Ensemble X, and its motto ’We don’t break down barriers in music… we…
Rudolph Walker OBE
Rudolph Malcolm Walker was born on September 28, 1939 in Trinidad, British West Indies.
Walker broke many barriers as a performer, working extensively in theatre and becoming the first black person to star in a major television series.
Walker,…
Sir Michael Stoute
Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing.
Stoute, (born 22 October 1945) whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer…
Samuel Springer MBE
Born in Barbados on 30 October in 1934,Sam came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and started his working life with London Transport as a conductor and later a driver of trolley and diesel buses. He worked with London Transport until 1986,when he…
Baroness Patricia Scotland
Queens Council and joint first black woman peer, Patricia Scotland was born in Dominica in 1956, and arrived in Britain at the age of 2 along with 10 other siblings. As she grew she took a liking for dance and wanted to be a modern expressionist…
Samuel Selvon
Samuel Selvon, in full Samuel Dickson Selvon, (born May 20, 1923, Trinidad — died April 16, 1994, Port of Spain), Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation of the life of East Indians living in…
Aldwyn Roberts (Lord Kitchener)
Lord Kitchener, (Aldwyn Roberts), Trinidadian singer and songwriter (born April 18, 1922, Arima, Trinidad, British West Indies — died Feb. 11, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), was called the “grandmaster of calypso” and was instrumental in…
Cyrille Regis, MBE
Cyrille Regis was born on the 9th of February 1958 in Maripasoula, French Guiana, the son of Robert Regis, a labourer from Saint Lucia and Mathilde Regis, a seamstress. His father moved to England in 1962, with the rest of the family, including…
Lord David Pitt
Medic, political pioneer and labour peer for Hamstead, the late Lord David Pitt of Hampstead was the longest serving black Parliamentarian, having been granted a life peerage in 1975. He spent his life speaking out for the underrepresented black…
Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born on 13 March 1958 on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. He grew up in Leeds, England, and read English at Queen's College, Oxford. He is the author of six novels, several books of non-fiction and has written for film, theatre,…
Lord Herman Ousley
Lord Ouseley was born in Guyana in 1945, and came to England when he was 11. He was educated at William Penn School and Catford College, where he gained a diploma in municipal administration. He was appointed as the first principal race relations…
Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul TC
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC, most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidadian-British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in rural Trinidad on 17…
Carmen Munroe OBE
Carmen Munroe is a British actress best known for her role as Shirley, the wife of barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton, in the British TV sitcom Desmond’s (1989 to 1994). She was born in Berbice, Guyana on November 12th 1932 and has been…
Egbert Moore (Lord Beginner)
Lord Beginner (born Egbert Moore) was at the heart of the expansion of calypso music immediately after WW2. Originally from Trinidad, Beginner recorded and toured in New York with other leading members of the Trinidad's "Old Brigade" of calypsonians,…
Althea McNish FCSD
Althea McNish FCSD (born c. 1933) is a British textile designer of Trinidadian origin who has been called the first British designer of African descent to earn an international reputation.
Althea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad,…
Dalton McConney MBE QPM
Dalton McConney is a retired Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector. He mostly served as a uniformed officer in South London and came to prominence following the second Brixton riots In the mid-eighties. He was born in Barbados and educated at Ebenezer…
Val McCalla
Val McCalla arrived in England in May 1959, aged 15, with dreams of being a pilot. He joined the RAF, but his plans were soon grounded by a perforated eardrum. He spent five years in the supplies section, where he picked up book-keeping…
Sir Trevor MacDonald
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Trevor worked in various aspects of the media including local newspapers, radio and television. He joined the Caribbean Regional Service of the BBC World Service in 1960 as a producer, before moving to London at the end of…
Claudia Jones
Claudia Jones, feminist, black nationalist, political activist, community leader, communist and journalist, has been described as the mother of the Notting Hill Carnival. The diversity of her political affiliations clearly illustrated her…
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, Jamaica. He moved to London in 1963 to be with his mother and went on to read Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He joined the Black Panther movement in 1970, organising a poetry…
Dr Nola Ishmael OBE
Nola Ishmael left Barbados In 1963 to start her nursing career in the National Health Service (NHS) at a hospital in Bishops Stortford. She later moved to the Whittington Hospital in London to gain her State Registration Qualification. Within 18…
C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James, in full Cyril Lionel Robert James, (born Jan. 4, 1901, Tunapuna, Trinidad — died May 31, 1989, London, Eng.), was a West Indian-born cultural historian, cricket writer, and political activist who was a leading figure in the Pan-African…
John Holder
Born and brought up in superlative St George, John was educated at St Giles School, then Combermere High School, representing Combermere at first team level in Barbados first division cricket competition.
In 1964, he migrated to the UK under…
Russel Henderson
One of seven siblings, Russel Henderson grew up in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, initially learning to play the piano, and subsequently steel-pan.
By 1948, at the age of 24, Henderson had achieved a fair amount of success with his jazz quartet in…
Dr Aaron Haynes FCMI
Born on the 12th of March 1927, Aaron attended Combermere School after which he travelled to Trinidad to attend the Seventh Day Adventist College. He graduated from there in 1945, gaining a teaching posting at an elementary school in San Juan and…
Dr Trevor Hall CBE
Born in Barbados in 1941, in his teens Trevor became an outstanding leader in the Church Lads’ Brigade, first visiting the UK on its behalf, aged 16. In the early 60s, he travelled to England to work for London Transport while maintaining his…
Prof Stuart Hall
Stuart McPhail Hall, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and academic (born Feb. 3, 1932, Kingston, Jamaica — died Feb. 10, 2014, London, England), was a pioneer in the field of cultural studies, an interdisciplinary approach to the role of…
C. Gordon Greenidge MBE
Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge was born in Barbados and like many Caribbean families in the late 50’s and 60’s migrated to the UK to seek a better life. Educated at Speightstown Boys School and Black Bess Boys School in Barbados, he continued his…
Angie Greaves
Angie Greaves, ‘Daytime’ and ‘Soul Town’ presenter on Magic Radio, has one of the most soulful and distinctive female voices in UK radio today. Born in London and enjoying being ‘fabulous in her 50’s’, Angie grew up within a traditional…
Natasha Gordon
Natasha is an award-winning writer and actor born in London, of Jamaican descent. Her debut play, Nine Night, enjoyed a stunning sold-out run at the National in April 2018 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios making her the first black British…
Paul Dash
Paul Dash is a Barbados-born artist, educator and writer. Born in Fairfield Cross Road, St Michael in 1946, he migrated to Oxford England in 1957. He pursued studies in art and education culminating with a PhD for Goldsmiths University where he…
Edric Connor
Edric Connor is primarily remembered by filmgoers as an actor for his work on screen during the last 15 years of his life, but the Trinidad-born singer also played a pivotal role in the introduction of what is now called world music to England during…
Linford Christie OBE
Linford Christie was the greatest sprinter Britain produced, an athlete who emerged onto the scene at a late stage in life for an athlete and carved out an unique niche.
Jamaican born Christie was the middle child of seven. He came to Britain when…
Roland Butcher
Barbados-born Roland Butcher secured his place in history when he became the first black player to represent England, making his Test debut at Bridgetown in 1980-81 (the headline in the local paper was "Our boy, their bat"). A batsman capable of…
Errol Brown
Pop singer/songwriter and front man for Hot Chocolate, Errol Brown was born in Jamaica and moved to Britain when he was 12. His musical career started in 1969, when he and some friends sent a reggae version of Give Peace A Chance to John Lennon.…
Dr Jeffrey Brathwaite QPM
Dr Jeffrey Brathwaite was born in Congo Road, St Philip, Barbados. He was a student at Princess Margaret High School until the age of 16. He came to the UK in the late 1960s and after a short stint in the Army, worked as a psychiatric nurse for four…
James E. Brathwaite CBE
James is an internationally recognised business leader with operational experience in the media and environmental industries, public office, alongside expertise in SME business start-ups and management.
In 1996, he was Britain’s first Black CEO of a…
E.R. Braithwaite
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Karen Blackett OBE
Born in Barbados but raised in Reading, Karen has been in media for 22 years and is currently Chairperson of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK with billings over £l billion. Prior to this Karen was CEO for 5 years.
Karen has been…
Sterling Betancourt MBE FRSA
Sterling Betancourt was born 1 March 1930 in Laventille, Trinidad.
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Winston Best
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Floella Benjamin
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Norman Beaton
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Cecil Baugh
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Dame Jocelyn Barrow
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John Barnes MBE
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Joan Armatrading
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Baroness Valerie Amos
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Image of logos
Image of the front entrance of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Image of the front entrance of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Barbados Museum & Historical Society garrison view from above
Barbados Museum & Historical Society view from above, showing the lay out of the original garrison.
Image of Tuk Band penny whistle
Image of a Tuk band penny whistle
Image of Militia Badge
Image of a Militia badge
Image of West African heddle pulley
Image of a West African heddle pulley
Image of Osprey taxidermy
Image of a taxidermied osprey
Image of Maragret's Head bust
Image of "Margaret's Head" by Karl Broodhagen terracotta bust
Image of Barbara bust
Image of "Barbara" by Karl Broodhagen Terracotta bust
Image of a sea urchin
Image of a bleached sea urchin
Image of Amerindian Cassava Grater
Image of a decorated Amerindian Cassava Grater
Image of a Taino Zemi
Image of a carved wooden Taino Zemi
Image of iron ball
Image of Iron ball used to chain enslaved peoples
Image of Amerindian stone scraper
Image of Amerindian stone scraper
Image of Conch shell
Image of a Conch shell
Image of hand bell
Image of metal hand bell
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Image of metal jail cell eyelets from another angle
Image of jail cell door
Image of metal jail cell door
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Image of metal eyelets for hanging prisomers cots
Video of tamarind tree seeds and describing Barbadian African and European roots
Video of museum staff describing how Barbados has roots to Africa and Europe
Video of tamarind tree seeds and legend
Video of museum staff telling legend of the tamarind tree seed
Video of jail cell
Video of inside jail cell located at the museum
Video of introduction of jail cells
Video of volunteer giving an introduction to the jail cells at the museum
Video of description of jail cell construction
Video of volunteer describing jail cell construction
Video of description of prisoners in jail cell
Video of volunteer giving a description of prisoner conditions in jail cell
Video of wicker rug beater
Video of wicker rug beater with commentary by museum staff
Image of woven wooden basket
Image of woven wooden basket
Image of wooden mortar and pestle
Image of wooden mortar and pestle
Image of wooden cup
Image of wooden cup
Image of undecorated gourd bowl
Image of undecorated gourd bowl
Image of bull horn instrument
Image of bull horn instrument
Image of gourd bowl decorated with symbols
Image of gourd bowl decorated with symbols
Image of wooden tray
Image of wooden tray
Image of metal light
Image of a metal light without a bulb
Image of gourd vessel
Image of a gourd used as a vessel
Image of woven blanket
Image of a woven blanket in traditional pattern
Image of decorated gourd bowl
Image of a decorative bowl made out of a gourd
Image of a female figure
Image of a female figure made out of a gourd and straw
Image of taburete de armadillo, armadillo stool
Image of taburete de armadillo, armadillo stool
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Image of symbolic tree inside the community museum
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Image of outside building associated with the community museum
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Image of community museum
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Image of community museum sign on the side of the museum
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Image of community member speaking to students inside the community museum
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Image of community members interviewing and filming each other
Image of Boruca from road outside museum
Image of Boruca from road outside museum
Image of community member standing beside stone sphere
Image of community member standing next to the stone sphere at the museum
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Image of students around a 360 degree camera next to a waterfall
Image of waterfull outside Boruca
Image of waterfall outside of Boruca that is tied with traditional stories and myths
Image of path through Boruca at sunset
Image from path through Boruca at sunset
Image from inside traditional Brucan house
Image from inside an open traditional Brucan house
Image of Brucan community member holding a traditional mask
Image of Brucan community member holding a traditional mask
Image of the community museum sign
Image of the Museo Comunitario de Boruca sign
Video of Brucan community members playing the Cuerno de toro, a Bull horn and Concha, a Seashell
Video of Brucan community members playing the Cuerno de toro (Bull horn) and Concha (a Seashell)
Image of a bull horn
An image of a Cuerno de toro, a Bull horn
Image of a wooden mask
An image of a Brucan wooden mask in a traditional style
Image of a Weaving loom
An image of a Brucan weaving loom with a traditional pattern
Image of a woven basket
An image of a canasta tejida, a woven basket from Boruca
Calabaza decorativa - Decorative gourd 3D image
An image of the 3D object Calabaza decorativa, a decorative gourd
Image of the Stone Sphere with camera and tripod
An image of the Bola de peidra during the process of photogrammetry
Image of the Stone Sphere
An image of the Bola de peidra
Deeves's Uniform Jacket
The uniform belonged to 2nd Lieutenant Thomas William Deeves MC, who served in the 16th (Public School) Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment. Deeves received the Military Cross with bar (basically: two military crosses!) for his gallantry on two…
Battle of the Somme Football
Billie (Wilfred) Nevill was educated at Dover College. He left university on 5th August 1914 and applied for a commission as soon as Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers to fight in the Great War.
In May 1916, Captain Nevill went home to England on…
Deeves's Uniform Jacket
The uniform belonged to 2nd Lieutenant Thomas William Deeves MC, who served in the 16th (Public School) Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment. Deeves received the Military Cross with bar (basically: two military crosses!) for his gallantry on two…
One Mark Note
Sent from the Front by Walter Tull, included in his letter to his brother Edward Tull-Warnock 10th August, 1917.
Letter from Walter Tull from the Front
The letter from the Front is dated 10th August 1917, and was sent to his brother Edward Tull-Warnock. The Mark note and the Ammunition box top were included in the letter, and were picked up during Walter's foray into No-Man's-Land, as described in…
Deeves's Uniform Jacket
The uniform belonged to 2nd Lieutenant Thomas William Deeves MC, who served in the 16th (Public School) Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment. Deeves received the Military Cross with bar (basically: two military crosses!) for his gallantry on two…
Charity Winner's Medal
Walter Tull won the Charity Winner's Medal early (September 1909) in his first season with Tottenham Hotspur. He signed for Spurs on 20th July, and then seemed to have played preseason cricket for the team. His signing on fee was £10, and he was then…
Battle of the Somme Football
Billie (Wilfred) Nevill was educated at Dover College. He left university on 5th August 1914 and applied for a commission as soon as Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers to fight in the Great War.
In May 1916, Captain Nevill went home to England on…
Ammunition box top
For a Spandau machine gun, sent from Walter Tull to his brother Edward Tull-Warnock in a letter from the Front 10th August, 1917.
Gorilla skull
Gorilla skull from the Bell Pettigrew Natural History Museum - Teaching Collection, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Eye on the Arts
Interview with Curator Allison Thompson for the Barbadian programme "Eye on the Arts", which aired on February 9th 2019.
Bell Pettigrew Museum
The Bell Pettigrew Museum is the University of St Andrews zoology museum. It is a rare survival of a Victorian teaching museum, and wonderfully atmospheric.
The displays, which include examples of several extinct species, are arranged to allow the…
Charles Town Maroons Cultural Center and Museum Tour
The Maroon’s Cultural Center, nestled in rural Charles Town along a lazy rolling white water river coming down from the Blue Mountains. The Maroon’s autonomy from the island’s government dates back to centuries old treaties and remains to this day.…
Ceramic Cream Preserve Pot
From collection at Timespan Museum. “Rich Preserved Cream, From The Wigtownshre Creamery Co. Stranraer Boracsed”.
3D Digitisation Workshop Malalhue Chile
3D digitisation workshop in Museo Despierta Hermano in Malalhue, Chile.
Woven Basket
Woven Basket made from natural fibers.
Metal Hook
Metal hook with a chain.
Saddle Bag
Saddle bag made of leather and wood.
Suitcase
A brown suitcase used for travel by a Barbadian. On one side of the item is a sticker with the acronym B.O.A.C, which stands for British Overseas Airways Corporation. This was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial…
Melissa Hunte
Melissa Hunte
Brianna Gibbs
Why is telling the Windrush story important to you?
Barbados Community College
Barbados Community College
2018
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda…
Barbados Community College Class
Barbados Community College
2018
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda…
Introduction to the Production of Windrush
Introduction and clips from Windrush.
2018
Barbados Community College
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna…
Why is Telling the Windrush Story Important to You?
Barbados Community College
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda Harewood
Selena Williamson
Tamina White
Windrush
Barbados Community College
2018
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda…
Artillery Shell 2
WW1 decorated artillery shell
Artillery Shell
WW1 decorated artillery shell
Barbados Bullfinch/Sparrow
The Barbados bullfinch is a small bird, 14–15 cm (5.5–6 in). The upperparts are a dark olive-grey, the wings are mostly brown, underparts are greyish, while the under tail-coverts are tawny. The species is not sexually dimorphic, with females and…
Police Badge
The main Police Force of Barbados was established in 1835. The Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF), as established under the Police Act, of 1961, and the Constitution of Barbados is a part of the government responsible for local law enforcement. The…
Amerindian Shell
A shell found by Peter L Drewett that might have been a tool used to consume food with by the Amerindian community.
Militia Badge
The Barbados Militia was raised in 1640 “for the defence and protection of Barbados.” and is probably one of the oldest in the British commonwealth, serving until British troops arrived in 1780. The main objective of the militias formation (as well…
Calabash bowl
Calabash bowl made from the fruit of the crescentia cujete tree and was used by the amerindian community.
Peregrine Falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine,[2] and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-grey back, barred…
Reverend Buddy Larrier
The Society for the Resettlement of Caribbean Nationals.
Migration story of the Larrier / Lashley family
From: Rev. Buddy A. Larrier
Thank you for allowing me to share part of my family migration story with you as part of the project. Further…
Reverend Buddy Larrier
The Society for the Resettlement of Caribbean Nationals.
Migration story of the Larrier / Lashley family
From: Rev. Buddy A. Larrier
Thank you for allowing me to share part of my family migration story with you as part of the project. Further…
Green Sea Turtle Skull
Green Sea Turtle Skull
Chimpanzee skull
Chimpanzee skull from the collections in the Bell Pettigrew Natural History, part of the Museums of the University of St Andrews.
Hedda Phillips-Boyce
Childhood memories
Brian Batson
Just a quick intro as to why we migrated to Barbados due to post economic conditions in Guyana. again I was very young so I could only go off of what my mother told me as a child. All I know for sure is that she wouldn't have left Guyana unless it…
Eric Lynch
Eric Lynch speaks about his family history with ties from the Caribbean to Liverpool in the Claude Graham series "Unshackled". Footage courtesy the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation.