The entrance to the Museum of Antigua & Barbuda
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Museum of Antigua & Barbuda
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When:
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Daily
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Where:
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Museum of Antigua & Barbuda
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Free; donations requested
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Sun-Thu 8.30am-4pm; Fri 8.30pm-3pm; Sat 10am-2pm
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Not just regaling visitors with Antigua's recent, colonial and post-colonial past, but including fossil and coral exhibits some 34 million years old, the Museum of Antigua & Barbuda is a must for anyone wanting to get a grip with the islands. Get your hands messy by squeezing cassava through a grass sieve (matapi) in the traditional way. Find out about the sugar plantations on the island, see a replica of a wattle-and-daub house, a real Arawak canoe and even the island's 1920s telephone exchange! The story comes up to date with the islands' independence in 1981.
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