The Dominica Museum
Dominica's national museum in the 1810 market and post office building on the Roseau bayfront.
The Dominica Museum stands on the Roseau waterfront in a stone and timber building of 1810 that served first as a market house and later as the island's post office. It faces the Old Market square, which had been a site of the sale of enslaved people and afterwards of public punishment, a history the displays set out plainly. The ground floor now holds the visitor information centre, while the museum occupies the upper storey reached by an external stair.
Exhibitions were developed largely by the historian Lennox Honychurch and run through the island's geology and volcanic origins, Amerindian settlement, the colonial plantation economy and the twentieth century. Arawak and Kalinago pottery and stone axes are shown with a reconstructed Kalinago hut and a pwi pwi raft, alongside colonial furniture, prints, bird and fish specimens and agricultural tools. Sections are given to the writers Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey, both born in Dominica.
Highlights
- Set in an 1810 market and post office building facing the Old Market square
- Amerindian pottery and stone tools with a reconstructed Kalinago hut
- Displays on the Old Market's role in the sale of enslaved people
- Sections on the Dominican writers Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey
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