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Le Musée Régional d'Histoire et d'Ethnographie

Address: 10 bd. Général de Gaulle, Fort-de-France, 97200
Phone: 0596/72-81-87

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Fort-de-France

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Fodor's Review:

This museum is a learning experience that is best undertaken at the beginning of your vacation, so you can better understand the history, background, and people of the island. Housed in an elaborate former residence (circa 1888) with balconies and fretwork, it has everything from displays of the garish gold jewelry that prostitutes wore after emancipation to reconstructed rooms of a home of proper, middle-class Martinicans. There's even a display of creole headdresses with details of how they were tied to indicate if a woman was single, married, or otherwise occupied.

Cost: EUR 3
Open: Mon. and Wed.-Fri. 8:30-5, Tues. 2-5, Sat. 8:30-noon

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