A Day at the National Museum

Mark and Shannon stopped by the museum today. This was a good day as it was raining all over Grand Turk. But like we told them. more...

Linda and Paul took time out to visit the Museum and left very pleased they had gone to the trouble. They had booked a weekend of dives through Blue Water Divers and thought that they would not be able to get to the museum between diving and cruise ships that were in port this week. Blue Water called to arrange a "Behind the Scenes" diver's tour. more...

Last week the Museum was a busy busy place (as if this ever changes). Among the usual whirl of Historic Homes Tours and After School Program visits we also had a visit from some Museum members. They would be leaving Grand Turk for a while and wanted to check up on a loan they'd given to the museum. more...

The students of Clement Howell High School visited Grand Turk last Friday and the Museum was on their list of places to see. The Children's Club Coordinator gave them a special tour of the Molasses Reef Wreck artifacts and the Lucayan room. There were quite a few shutter bugs in the group who were madly taking pictures of everything they saw!. more...

The library is completely in order, labeled and functioning!. more...

We have some new helpers at the museum - a mother and son team! I'm really excited, we have the last few slides of the Jimmy McCullom collection getting scanned in today. It's taken over 200 man-hours to process and scan in the collection and it feels like a real accomplishment to have completion right around the corner. Once he's finished with the scanning, our new friend will start learning the tours. more...

The new website design has been up and running for nearly a month now, but we are always adding content. This week I collected images of people engrossed in learning about TCI history. Most of the pictures I took were legit, but since someone asked directions to a snorkel place, I offered them a ride in exchange for some modeling. more...

It's a typical day here at the museum with an interesting twist. We had 6 Historic Home Tours off the Carnival Destiny and Emerald Princess today. We had 4 students working with the After School laptops. more...

The last few weeks have been busy with visitors from all corners and with all sorts of expectations. This is a brief shout-out to our new friends:The geo-cacher's have seemed to multiply in the last few weeks. At least 6 new people signed the log book. more...

Freddie visited the museum last week hoping for an in depth look at the work of the museum. Boy did we have just the thing for him!Earlier today he stopped in with friend Bridgett to get our new VIP Behind the Scene's tour. They were curious as to how the museum receives items. more...

Last Thursday, visiting archivist Jessica Brody showed off the Museum Archives collection at the final Spring 2 Collections Event. We talked briefly about how to keep archival materials safe and the progress of conservation and organization in the Museum's archives, but mostly we explored the stories in the papers. We laughed at a get-out-of-work excuse note from 1872 written in flowery language and decided that the author took far to long to get to the point. more...

Elizabeth, pictured here with a family member, is celebrating her 130th country visit today. We talked with her about her past traveling adventures. Her favorite country is Tibet. more...