Community Events & News

Grand Turk Museum Day 2018

On Saturday, November 3rd 2018, the National Museum on Grand Turk hosted a Museum Day Community event. The purpose of the day was to reintroduce residents of the community to Turks and Caicos National Museum and to introduce new programming by the museum.  The new programming includes the “People of the Islands Oral History Project”, a Community Mosaic on the boundary wall for the museum and garden and a monthly children’s club program to begin in January 2019.

The mosaic project was especially well received as both kids and adults really embraced the creation of the mosaic. We look forward to the continued involvement of the Grand Turk community as the mosaic is continued over the next year.

The tremendous support and participation shows that the Museum continues to receive the support of the community of Grand Turk.

The day could not have happened without the kind support of our sponsors: Carnival, Morris Cottingham, Blue Water Divers, Jack Shack, Oasis Divers, Turks Head Inne, Salt Raker, Digicel, Exclusive Escapes, White Sands Charters n’ Tours, Osprey, and Island Creations. A special thank you also goes to all of our volunteers who helped to make the day a success.

 
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Grand Turk 2019 upcoming Projects
Children’s Club – We are starting the monthly Children’s Club again. The first club will be held on February 16, 2019. Arts, crafts, games and field trips will be designed to be both fun and educational. Children from ages 8-12 are invited to participate. The club is FREE!! Enrollment will start in January. The club will be held once a month on a Saturday from 1pm – 3pm.
Oral History Interviews – Oral histories are the collection and study of historical information using tape recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events.  Preserving oral history is a critical phase of genealogical research and data preservation. If you are interested in participating or know someone who should be interviewed please contact us. Individuals from all islands will be included.
Community Mosaic – We plan to turn the museum wall into an original handmade mosaic. This project started on Museum Day and be an ongoing project. We had children draw pictures of landmarks, animals and plants. Those pictures were used to create the various images that will be part of the mosaic. The wall mosaic will transform our environment and community creating a lasting, beautiful change.  Participants will learn mosaic techniques and gain deeper pride in the community. The mosaic will include representations of all areas of life in the Turks & Caicos including our history, culture, nature and wildlife.
for more information on any of these projects please email us at info@tcmuseum.org
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Fathom Volunteers – Garden Event – Grand Turk

A group of over 50 people from the Crown Princess volunteered to assist the Grand Turk museum on November 22nd. The amazing volunteers painted the garden fence, primed the garden wall, primed the shed, cleaned the garden and rebuilt the south gate. The participants of the Travel Deep program combine a vacation with an opportunity to give back. Adults and Children showed up ready to work!! We can not express our gratitude enough for what was accomplished by this group. Many of them actually thanked us for the opportunity! This improvement to the garden is a benefit to the entire community. As residents and visitors alike travel down Front street the improvement is immediately evident.
The volunteers even donated school supplies that we will be using at Christmas to give out free gift bags to children.
A special thanks goes to our local volunteers Ed & Teresa Grice, Edgar & Claudia Schnetz, Joe Smith and Hilary Day for also volunteering and helping us with the group that day. We would like to also thank Jack’s Shack for providing ice for the event.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE
WHO MADE THIS INCREDIBLE DAY POSSIBLE!
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November 22nd – Grand Turk Garden Restoration

The museum will be working with Fathom and a group of volunteers off of the Princess Cruise Ship. Fathom is a non-profit organization that works with Carnival Cruise Corporation to organize volunteers to do work on the islands that the ship visits. On their stop in Grand Turk the volunteers will be assisting us with the garden which was damaged during the hurricanes of September 2017. The garden is in need of replanting, repairs and painting.
We are so excited and pleased to be working with this organization!!
We are asking that local volunteers join us to help restore the garden.
Please contact us if you are interested in participating or have questions!  Want to learn more about Fathom – visit their website.
NOTE the date this is a revised date from the announcement in our September newsletter.
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Grand Turk Museum Day 2018

The Turks & Caicos National Museum will be holding Museum Day on Grand Turk, Saturday, November 3, 2018

Please join us for Museum Day.   We are hosting this fund raiser to increase community involvement and awareness of the museum.   This fund raiser will be offering a day full of fun, prizes and entertainment.

  • Games & Crafts for the kids
  • Entertainment provided by a Band &  DJ
  • Bake Sale
  • Food & Drinks for sale
  • Raffle with Great Prizes

Entry is Free!!

If you are interested in volunteering please contact us.  We are also looking for donations.  Donations can be monetary or goods and services such as gift certificates that can be given away as prizes in the raffle we will be holding.  Monetary donations will go towards supplies and goods to be held for sale.

Want to Volunteer, Donate or just have questions – Please contact Michael Pateman 232-4535 or email us.  

Thank you for supporting The Museum!

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Back in the Day Event 2018

May 18, 2018 we celebrated the ways of days past with our Back in the Day Event at our Grace Bay Village location on Providenciales

The Turks and Caicos National Museum would like to thank the community celebrating our second annual International Museum Day Event at the museum in Grace Bay, Providenciales with us. The museum’s Caicos Heritage Homestead Exhibit came alive under the ‘Back in the Day’ theme which was well executed with dramatic performances, food, music, dance and traditional craft. The tremendous participation and support from the community is an indication of the interest in knowing, practicing and passing on our cultural heritage to the next generation.  A special thanks to our sponsors and volunteers for making this day a success.

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HJ Robinson School 2017 Quiz Team Winners Trip

HJ Robinson school team, second place winners of the 2017 Turks and Caicos National Museum’s History and Cultural Heritage quiz, won a historical tour as part of their prize. They took that prize trip to Providenciales on Friday June 23, 2017.  The team Noel Benjamin, Michael Archibold and Amanda Ingham were accompanied by parent Mrs. Mandy Archibold. They were hosted by museum volunteer Ms. Emily Malcolm and museum representative Mrs. Candianne Williams.

The group toured the Caicos Heritage Homestead exhibit, Cheshire Hall Plantation and Little Water Cay the Iguana Island. They also explored the maritime heritage with traditional boat builder Pastor Gold Williams, and got a tour of the traditional Caicos sloop that he is building.

We would like to say a special thank you to sponsors TCI Reef Fund and InterCaribbean Airways. Thank you also to Caribbean Cruisin, and Turks and Caicos National Trust, Pastor Gold Williams and Ms. Emily Malcom for contributing to making this day a wonderfully memorable one.

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