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Grand Turk Event – July 30, 2022

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Irish Museum at the Grand Turk Museum

We welcome everyone to come out this Thursday May 26th 2022 for Irish Music at the Grand Turk Museum. 

As part of the Irish Music Festival taking place we will be hosting one night 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 

Free Admittance – Drinks available for purchase.

Support the museum and have a great time as part of the special event happening on Grand Turk.

Tell your friends and family!

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Volunteers Needed

The Turks & Caicos National Museum Foundation is seeking the help of volunteers to assist with the running of the existing Provo museum facility in The Village at Grace Bay.
Duties will include conducting short tours and assisting with gift shop sales and will amount to a few hours a week, at set times. It is hoped to assemble a team of 3-4 persons so a roster can be established. Full training will be given.
The National Museum Foundation is also establishing a fund-raising committee on Providenciales to assist with raising funds for the new museum building designed by globally renowned architect, Ron Shaw. The committee will consist of a representative from the TCI Government, a representative of TCHTA, two existing board members and a number of
volunteers from the wider community.
The objectives of the committee are to create public awareness for the new national museum building and to work on various fund-raising initiatives to cover the construction cost.
Interested persons should contact Lisa Talbot, National Museum Manager at
info@tcmuseum.org or 649-247-2160 or Seamus Day at seamus.day@tcmuseum.org or 649-431-2849 or please visit the national museum’s website: www.tcmuseum.org
TCNMF is a registered not for profit organization aimed at recording, interpreting, preserving and celebrating the history of the Turks and Caicos Islands and its people.
The museum on Grand Turk is housed in the historical Guinep House; an iconic structure in the nation’s capital. The new expanded Provo museum building will be adjacent to the existing museum facility and heritage house in The Village, Grace Bay.

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Provo Community Garden

The Community Garden project is off to a great start thanks to Grace Bay Resorts Foundation and the Sales and Marketing Team who came out in full force to clear the designated site within the Turks and Caicos National Museum campus in the Village at Grace Bay Providenciales.

The primary objective of the garden project, spearheaded by Nutrition in Demand, is to encourage persons to grow their own food, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and promote a healthier lifestyle. Turks and Caicos National Museum is happy to be collaborating on this project. Farming showcased in the Caicos Heritage Exhibit as an integral part of the lifestyle of the 1900s is no longer typical to the islands. The Community Garden gives persons who may need some encouragement to start gardening an ideal space to do so in a social setting with access to technical support from the Department of Agriculture.

Special thanks to Grace Bay Resorts Foundation and the Sales and Marketing Team, Ms. Daphne Forbes and all of the other volunteers who participated in the clearing project as well as those who worked behind the scenes to provide the necessary support. The garden space is now clear. Volunteers are welcome to sign up to assist as this Community Garden Project progresses. For more information, please contact Tamika Handfield 442-3978.

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History and Cultural Heritage Quiz 2019

We congratulate Holy Family Academy, the winner of the Turks and Caicos National Museum’s fourth annual History and Cultural Heritage Quiz! Well done! Congratulations to Raymond Gardiner High School on their second place win and third consecutive win as a quiz finalist!

Thank you to the nine secondary schools for participating in the quiz, to the teachers, parents and students for their hard work that went into the preparation for participation in this quiz. It was a closely contested quiz with an exciting finish.

Davar Lewis -student, Cajair Davidson-student, Cameron Handfield-student, Dr. Michael Pateman , Ms. Stacie Ann Taylor – Teacher Raymond Gardiner High School)

Special thanks to our sponsors, Fortis TCI, interCaribbean Airways, TC Reef Fund, Grace Bay Car Rentals, United Taxi Alliance and the Departments of Education and Culture. We say thank you the Teacher’s Workshop facilitators, Quiz committee, Rachel Harvey, Drexler Smith, Brandon Handfield, Brenda Clare, Enid Capron Ripsaw Band and our dedicated volunteers.

Dr. Michael Pateman – Director National Museum, Ms. Ludwina Fulford-Director Department of Culture, with winners Christian Jean, Ikera Stubbs, Nahshya Hinson and Mr. Edgar Howell- Director-Department of Education, Ms. Guilmese Gustave-teacher Holy Family Academy,  Mrs. Ruth Forbes – Senior Vice – President of Fortis TCI Ltd., Candianne Williams, Museum Representative

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National Museum Receives Government Sponsorship

Delivering on a promise made by the Hon. Premier, Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson earlier this year at the inaugural Museum fundraising Gala, Hon. Karen Malcomb, Minister of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services presented a fifty-thousand-dollar sponsorship check to the Turks and Caicos National Museum Foundation (TCNMF) at the third Right Excellent JAGS McCartney Lecture Series at the National Memorial Site.
The money will be used by the museum to:
  • Expand and create new events which will increase their fundraising ability and community programming,
  • Expand the museum’s research programming into little known aspects of TCI history to also include local students that can train in heritage management
  • Create new products to help educate locals on undiscovered TCI history,
  • Develop new exhibits, and
  • Expand the archival storage ability to help with the increased request to store historic documents.
Museum Director, Dr. Michael Pateman explains that “Over the next year we will be premiering many new programs including a documentary on traditional boat building, several history books aimed at the local schools, new exhibits on Salt and Governance in the TCI and so much more.”
President of the TCNMF Seamus Day said, “On behalf of the Members and Directors, we thank the Turks and Caicos Islands government and especially the Hon. Premier for this support. Over the last several years, the Museum has refocused on incorporating the local community more into our events, programs and exhibits and the government’s support will really allow us to expand on that.”

The sponsorship check from the government was not the only donation the Museum received during heritage month.   Mr. Alton Higgs a traditional “bush doctor”  from Lorimers, Middle Caicos (now resident on Grand Turk) gave the museum a basket he made from coconut leaves and stems marking the occasion of his 99th Birthday on October 17th 2019.
The TCNMF is a registered not for profit organization aimed at recording, interpreting, preserving and celebrating the history of the Turks and Caicos Islands and its people.  The TCNMF is headquartered at two-hundred-year-old Guinep House on Grand Turk and also has a facility in the Village of Grace Bay on Providenciales.

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July & August Newsletters

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July Newsletter 

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2019 Eco Camp

The TCNM & DECR Eco Camp 2019 on Grand Turk was a great success. We had a big group of great kids this year who enjoyed swim lessons, swimming, bird walk/scavenger hunt, Gibbs Cay trip, a tour of the National Park, learning about the environment and ocean life. Special thanks to Grand Turk Divers & White Sands Charters for the trip to Gibbs Cay, Island Tram for helping transport the kids and Deep Blue Charter for the informative boat ride about the National Park. Many others helped make this a success: Kerri-Ann Smith for volunteering and helping out, Ben Stubenberg for swim lessons, Amy Avenant from DECR for running the camp, Salt Raker, Osprey Beach Hotel, Big Mums, Sandbar and Hilary Day for the fantastic lunches! It was a week of Fun & Education! The club is made possible by sales of the book “Where is Simon? Sandy”, written by Donna Marie Seim.

 

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Memories of Provo Summer Camp 2019!

There were many first time experiences for our campers at the Turks and Caicos National Museum’s 2019 Living History Summer Camp in the Village at Grace Bay, Providenciales. The making of homemade ice cream using a hand cranked ice-cream maker with Mr. Simmons was a delicious one. Another was the hydroponics farm; they were fascinated with the concept and had many questions for Mr. Harrison who graciously answered them all.
Though the visit to the desalination plant at Beaches Resort was another first, they were able to relate it the hydroponics farm since Mr. Harrison also uses desalinated water and so they developed an even greater appreciation for water, our scare but vital resource.

However, corn, with its origins attributed to the indigenous people of this region of the world, was the big story of the week. Each camper planted their very own corn seeds and took them home to nurture them into plants. They learnt how to grind corn to make grits and roast corn outside on the fire and of course, there was the popping of corn. Learning traditional dance steps from Mr. Bowen that culminated in a dance party was loads of fun. Speaking of fun that aptly describes the learning and playing the game of cricket lovely cricket with Coach Daryl. We did make some time to enjoy a picnic on the gorgeous North Shore Beach of Little Water Cay and learn all about the iguanas and mangroves. At our closing sessions they was a unanimous “best camp ever” so I think I can safely say the campers enjoyed summer camp 2019.

We say thank you to our sponsors and all who have made this year’s camp the success that it was. To Turks and Caicos Banking Company, Donna Seim, Mario Smith and the Department of Agriculture, Turks and Caicos National Trust, Turks and Caicos Cricket Association, Beaches Resort, Sunshine Nursery, David Bowen, Ian Harrison, Dekkel Simmons, Blovena Greene, Lloyd Stubbs, Ron Higgs, Tatiana Stubbs, Witlene Williams, Guilmese Gustave and Thania Phanord, thank you!

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Grub, Grill & Good Times to be an Annual Event

The July 20th event held up to its name of Grub, Grill and Good Times. The event was a great success. Front Street was lined with with vendors participating in a chicken and conch fritter cook-off. Liv’s Kitchen was the big winner taking home the prize money for both categories. Everyone that attended enjoyed the food, drinks and live band “Island Vibes”. The children played games and won prizes. Other Non-Profits participated to do some fund raising of their own making this a true community event. This will be an annual event and we expect it to be even better next year.

We want to thank the participants, judges and all the sponsors that donated raffle prizes, drinks and money to help make this event possible: Beaches, Blue Water Divers, Bohio, Drift Villa, Exclusive Escapes, Grand Turk Divers, Humpback Dive Shack, Jack Shack, Margaritaville, Misick Gas, Oasis Divers, Osprey Beach Hotel, Salt Raker, Sandbar, Morris Cottingham and Ministry of Tourism.  We especially thank everyone in the community that came out on a VERY hot day and supported the event.
 
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