Bluefields Cultural Museum, Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua

4Gene R J 5:00 PM Mar 12, 2017

Small museum in a historical building.
Just 240 meters up the street from our Hotel Jackani, we passed by here going into town. Finally, today it was open. The entry personnel called a young lady who retrieved the key to open the upstairs collection. Speaking English, she pointed out the old wall map where the British drew the straight border line down through Nicaragua delineating the Moskito Territory. We spotted the wooden model for the Main Plaza's statue to the 6 indigenous peoples and their products. Examining several saddle mill(quern) stones, I spotted the pictures of Kurka Hill; the three 25' pre-Mayan stone pyramids discovered in 2003 just 40 miles north. After passing a collection of old typewriters and radios, we came to a score of pictures of the devastation of the1988 Hurricane, where we could spot many of the changes. For this small community, this is an important museum and is deserves a visit.

4jhaefliger2017 5:00 PM Nov 26, 2017

Very interesting museum
I spent 2-3 hours in this nice museum. Downstairs you have books and journals. Upstairs the items from all the different generations of outsiders coming to Bluefields (British, Morava Church, US, etc...). I only missed one book: Bluefields, People and Lives.