A Day at the National Museum

By Rory McEathron It’s been a great week here at the Museum, which I’ve spent preparing new guided tours for the opening of the cruise season in April. The new tours include a shipwreck snorkeling tour, a military tour, and several different behind-the-scenes tours of the museum. The shipwreck snorkeling tour includes half an hour of snorkeling in the wrecking yard in front of the museum before traveling up to the north end of the island to view the lighthouse. more...

Our new intern Rory arrived this week. Rory has deferred admission from Davidson College for a year and lives in Vermont with his parents and four younger siblings. He has been shadowing our tour guides for the last few days, as well as learning about the famed Molasses Reef Wreck. more...

We are finally finishing the re-filing project that began after the hurricane now more than a year ago. Aliatte has been spending her holiday break from the Grand Turk Community College transferring miles of files into our new cabinets that arrived with the AC equipment in November. Last year we had an order of file cabinets come with our shipment of replacement supplies following the hurricane. more...

The new year has started. We have had five ship calls this New Years weekend. Our Historic Houses and Museum tours have been full. more...

Merry Christmas to all. more...

Christmas week is a busy week on Grand Turk. There are nine ships in this week. Yesterday, was a trial day. more...

Bob and Janet stopped by the museum on our Historic Homes and Museum tour yesterday. Robert had been stationed on Grand Turk during the summer of 1959 with the SeaBees along with 300 other young men of MCB7 who came to build North Base. After their scheduled tour, we took an unscheduled tour up to the base and looked around. more...

This week Ken and Francie stopped the museum . They enjoyed themselves so much that they became $100 members. Ken had worked on the salvage of a salt schooner recovered off of Martha's Vineyard in the early 1990s. more...

P&O Cruises make Grand Turk a port of call on several ships. In the last week the Ventura and the Artemis have been on Grand Turk. The latest ship we had in is from Barbados. more...

This week, Bob Pratt and several "cruising cashers" came to the museum off of the Carnival Liberty. They were on a special cruise where they are completing a series of geocaching activities throughout the Bahamas. They also left a cache here. more...