INFORMATION ON THE ST MAARTEN MUSEUM

 

   .........the population increased , and PLANTATIONS were built.

 

Around 1790, the island was on its peak of prosperity with some 92 estates with sugar cane as the main crop.

Other economic activities were indigo, tobacco, cotton and fishery here on display with objects from the estates like books, utensils, beautiful dinnerware etc.
Admire the restored furniture and the Jugendstil lamps.


Around the middle of the 1800`s, after abolition of SLAVERY in 1848, most estates declined with only a few remaining active around 1950.
Focus on the showcase with slave beads, an African skull, Afro-Caribbean pottery ,and old prints picturing the Slavery period.  


 

Entering our next room, you find several showcases presenting artifacts of H.M.S."Proselyte", a war Fregate built in 1770 in the Netherlands, that sank in St.Maartens Great Bay in 1801.

Also on display is a model of the shipwreck as it is seen by scuba divers who investigate this exiting site.

More about The H.M.S."Proselyte"

 

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