Cockburn Town and New World Museum

Bahamas

Cays og Bosættelser

Midt i det rolige hav omkring Cockburn Town er der et vidunderligt dykkersted og dens juvel, Pleistocæn Cockburn Town Fossil Reef.

Bosættelsen huser også 'The New World Museum.' Museet er over 150 år gammelt og var oprindeligt et fængsel og guvernørens kontor. I 1992 blev det restaureret i anledning af sin femhundrede års jubilæum.

Et storslået keramisk mural blev konstrueret og doneret af Italien i 1992 af den surrealistiske chilenske maler Roberto Matta. New World Museum of San Salvador udstiller historiske artefakter og information om livet for Christopher Columbus.

Grundlagt af Columbus-scholar Ruth C. Walper Malvin viser dette lille, men interessante museum artefakter fra tiden for de indfødte Arawak-indianere, maritime artefakter fra kolonitiden og mere.

San Salvador menes at være stedet for Columbus' landgang i den Nye Verden. Columbus-monumentet, opført af Malvin i 1956, ligger i nærheden. Museet er kun åbent efter aftale.

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