The Dominica Museum

The Dominica Museum‚ is a museum on the quay in‚ Roseau,‚ Dominica. It is the national museum of Dominica. It is located in a small orange (as of 2007) building, formerly an Old market building and a post office dating to 1810.‚ This building lies in the old colonial part of the city, next to the‚ Garraway Hotel‚ just northwest of the‚ Fort Young Hotel, in front of the‚ Old Market of Roseau, the centre for slave trading during colonial times.

Dominica’s most notable historian,‚ Lennox Honychurch, has been responsible for much of the museum.‚ The Dominica Museum contains general items related to the cultural and social history and geology and archeology of Dominica.‚ These include old photographs, photographs and portraits of past rulers, colonial furniture, including a chair and old cabinet and a barometer, specimens of birds and fishes, colonial agricultural items and indigenous cultural articles including the‚ Pwi pwi, a miniature form of raft, a replica of a Carib hut and‚ Arawak‚ pottery and tools.‚ Of note are some stone axes, some of them reaching 9 inches in length.‚ The museums also contains displays related to the Volcanology of the island, and artifacts related to the early settlers also include oars, domestic implements, wooden figurines and old musical instruments.