Grenada National Museum
Grenada's national museum in former French barracks, covering Amerindian, colonial and modern history.
The Grenada National Museum stands at the corner of Young and Monckton Streets in St George's, in a stone and timber complex whose earliest parts date from the early eighteenth century. The compound served as barracks for the French garrison, later as a prison until the 1850s, and afterwards as a succession of hotels and as a merchant's warehouse. Private citizens organised as the Grenada Historical Society founded the museum in 1976, with government support, and it remains the country's principal historical collection.
Displays run from Amerindian settlement to the late twentieth century. Ciboney, Arawak and Kalinago pottery and stone tools open the sequence, followed by material on European settlement, sugar planting and the enslavement of Africans, including processing equipment and whaling gear. A marble bath said to have been used by Joséphine Bonaparte is among the better-known objects, and later rooms document the 1979 revolution, the killing of Maurice Bishop and the events of 1983. A courtyard is used for talks and small performances.
Highlights
- Housed in an early eighteenth-century French barracks, later a prison and hotel
- Amerindian pottery and stone tools from Ciboney, Arawak and Kalinago cultures
- Displays on sugar planting, enslavement and emancipation in Grenada
- Rooms documenting the 1979 revolution and the events of 1983
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