Gulisi Garifuna Museum
This museum on the outskirts of Dangriga contains a number of displays on Garifuna history and life. It was named for a Garifuna heroine who came to Belize with her 13 children and founded the village of Punta Negra in the Toledo District. Exhibits cover the Garifuna migration from Africa to the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, then to Roatán and Belize. Another exhibit is on Thomas Vincent Ramos, a visionary Garifuna leader who, in 1941, established the first Garifuna Settlement Day. (The Southern Highway now bears his name.) Other displays are on Garifuna food, clothing, medicinal plants, and music and dance. The museum also has rotating displays of paintings by Garifuna artists including Pen Cayetano.
