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Hand Axe
Part of the collection of the National Archaeology Museum of Lisbon. The National Archaeology Museum of Lisbon, founded in 1893 by notable archaeologist José Leite de Vasconcelos, is one of the most important Portuguese museums dedicated to…
Haitian Carnival
Haitian Carnival is a celebration held over several weeks each year leading up to Mardi Gras.
Green Sea Turtle Skull
Green Sea Turtle Skull
Gorilla skull
Gorilla skull from the Bell Pettigrew Natural History Museum - Teaching Collection, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Gibbs Face
This Amerindian artefact is most recognisable as a face that adorned the Barbados Museum and Historical Society’s logo
Giant South American Snail shell
The Giant Land Snail, Megalobulimus oblongus. A species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae. Native to a large part of the neotropical world including Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and…
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…
Forma de zapato de madera - Wooden shoe form
Par de formas inglesas del número 34, con suelo de hierro. El tercio superior de la forma se corta para facilitar su extracción una vez que se termina el zapato. La forma se emplea como una superficie de trabajo para la preparación de zapatos, así…
Floella Benjamin
Floella is best known to a generation as the presenter of the BBC's pre-school children's programme Play School, alongside mute co-stars Humpty, Jemima, and Little Ted but now she runs her own production company, and is also chairman of the film and…
Flat Iron
Metal flat iron, part of the collection of the Charles Town Maroons Museum. The Charles Town Maroons occupied Crawford Town high in the Blue Mountains before signing the Peace Treaty with the British when they moved down to Charles Town on the Buff…
Fishing sinker
Traditional fishing gear had two main parts – a baited hook to catch the fish, and a weight to sink the line into the sea. This is a specialised sinker that people used where there was a very strong tide, where big fish could be caught. The pointed…
Fisherman's hat
Shetlanders wore knitted hats when off fishing, and the the multicoloured patterns contrasted with the brown oilskins and boots they wore. Visitors to the islands two hundred years ago were much taken with these vivid caps, and bartered them from the…
Figura sosteniendo un animal Blackware - Figure holding an animal Blackware
Botella escultórica con representación antropomorfa. Presenta labio adelgazado, gollete de paredes convergentes rectas, cuerpo escultórico, y base plana. Tiene evidencias de una asa cintada, ubicada en la cara posterior, que une el extremo inferior…
Figura funeraria - Burial figure
Figura en tocado de plumas de entierro en las pirámides de Túcume.
Figure in headdress made from feathers from burial in Túcume pyramids.
Figura de bronze da carruagem romana - Bronze Roman chariot figure
Peça formada por uma quadriga estacionária de cavalos ligados pelas rédeas. Assenta numa plataforma quadrangular com abas com rebordo em três dos lados. Esta está sobre uma base de forma cúbica, oca. Os cavalos têm corpo alongado, pernas hirtas,…
Figura antropomórfica de entierro 2 - Burial anthropomorphic figure 2
Figura antropomórfica de entierro en miniatura del entierro en pirámides de Túcume.
Miniature burial anthropomorphic figure from burial in Túcume pyramids.
Figura antropomórfica de entierro - Burial anthropomorphic figure
Figura antropomórfica de entierro en miniatura del entierro en pirámides de Túcume.
Miniature burial anthropomorphic figure from burial in Túcume pyramids.
Female bust
Female bust, part of the collection of the National Museum of Jamaica. The National Museum Jamaica is the national agent for the collection, preservation and documentation of Jamaica’s material culture and aims to stimulate serious research and…
Eye on the Arts
Interview with Curator Allison Thompson for the Barbadian programme "Eye on the Arts", which aired on February 9th 2019.
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…
Estatueta de terracota de touro romano - Roman bull statuette
Escultura zoomórfica em terracota representando um animal da família bovidae, produzido na oficina de cerâmica romana da Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal). A estatueta está quase completa, sem apenas um dos chifres. Sob um corpo paralelepipédico, existem…
Estátua de bronze de mercúrio - Mercury bronze statue
Escultura antropomórfica encontrada na vila romana da Quinta de S. João / Quinta da Laranjeira (Arrentela, Seixal), utilizada nas práticas culticais do período romano (entre os séculos III e IV). Fundido em bronze, foi posteriormente modificado pela…
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…
Esmoladera - Grindstone
Caja de madera con muela para afilar cuchillos y hachas.
Wooden box with grindstone for sharpening knives and axes.
Escorpión deidad cerámica - Scorpion deity ceramic
Cerámica Blackware que representa una deidad escorpión.
Blackware ceramic depicting a scorpion deity.
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…
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.…
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.
Emigrant’s doll
Around 1900 hundreds of Shetlanders left their native home. It was a time of hardship but also opportunity. People settled elsewhere in Britain, or further afield in the world. This doll belonged to a girl in a seaport where islanders settled as…
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,…
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…
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…
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 Municipal do Seixal
O Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal (EMS) tem por missão investigar, conservar, documentar, interpretar, valorizar e difundir testemunhos do Homem e do meio, reportados ao território e à população do concelho, com vista a contribuir para a construção e a…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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…
Ecomuseo de la Cerámica Chorotega, San Vicente de Nicoya
This project is a response to the need of the people of San Vicente to manage their natural and cultural resources. It is an instrument for the education, preservation and diffusion of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of San Vicente.
Ecomuseo de la Cerámica Chorotega, San Vicente de Nicoya
This project is a response to the need of the people of San Vicente to manage their natural and cultural resources. It is an instrument for the education, preservation and diffusion of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of San Vicente.
Este museo…
Early University of West Indies seal stamp
An early university seal stamp. The University of the West Indies Museum, commonly called the UWI Museum, was established in 2012. Its focus is the history and development of the University of the West Indies, and its relationship to the West Indies…
E.R. Braithwaite
E.R. Braithwaite, (Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite), Guyanese author and diplomat (born June 27, 1912, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) — died December 12, 2016, Rockville, Md.), was the author of the best-selling memoir To Sir, with Love…
Drum
Drum, part of the collection of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Museum and Art Gallery was established originally as the Royal Victoria Institute (RVI) in 1892 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria…
Dr. Owen Minott's Rolleicord camera
Dr Owen Minott was one of the pioneering 33 medical students of the UCWI in 1948 and subsequently a noted amateur photographer. He was one of the early (perhaps the earliest) chroniclers of the UCWI, producing hundreds of 2.25” black and white…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Decorative Temple elephant
Decorative Temple elephant, part of the collection of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Museum and Art Gallery was established originally as the Royal Victoria Institute (RVI) in 1892 in commemoration of the…
Decorative pipe
Decorative pipe, part of the collection of the Moruga Museum. The Moruga Museum was established in November 2013 by founder of the St Vincent Ferrer Society, Eric Lewis. Based in the rural, seaside community of Gran Chemin in south Trinidad, the…