Plantation to nation: Caribbean museums and national identity

Contents

Natural history = national history : early origins and organizing principles of museums in the English-speaking Caribbean / Alissandra Cummins -- Haiti, museums and public collections : their history and development after 1804 / Marie-Lucie Vendryes -- The history and evolution of Cuban museums / Jose Linares -- The natural history collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Mike Rutherford -- The National Gallery of Jamaica : a critical history / Veerle Poupeye -- The creation of the National Museum of Bermud, 1974-2011 / Edward Cecil Harris -- Recapturing history : Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia / Hilde Neus -- Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique or the gaps in a memory difficult to express / Christine Chivallon -- New perspectives in heritage presentations in Suriname and Curaçao : from Dutch colonial museums to diversifying representations of enslavement / Valika Smeulders -- New museums on the block : creation of identity in the post-independence Caribbean / Kevin Farmer -- Framing identity, encouraging diversity : recent museum developments in Barbados / Roslyn Russell -- The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance : its composition and role in society / Luisa de Pena Diaz -- "Children get your culture" : museums, individualism and nationalism in Jamaica / Rebecca Tortello -- Outreach or out of reach? : seeking new audiences : the Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club / Nigel Sadler -- Museums and the challenge for heritage organizations in Saint Lucia / Winston F. Phulgence -- Destroying while preserving Junkanoo : the Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista Thompson.