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A free library (1847) is maintained by the government in Bridgetown.
There are seven branches, with bookmobile stops throughout the island.
By 2002, the system had 126,000 volumes. The library of the Barbados branch
of the University of the West Indies has 179,000 volumes. There were seven
museums in the country in 2001. There are also 17 monuments and historic
sites and five zoos and botanical gardens.
CARIBBEAN
- Barbados Museum & Historical Society (1933) in
Saint Michael is a general museum with collections showing the geology,
history, natural history, marine life, and plantation home furnishings
of the island, as well as Arawak artifacts.
- http://www.barbmuse.org.bb
- Turks and Caicos National Museum
- There are Museums Association of the Caribbean related pages
under
- http://www.tcmuseum.org/museums_association_of_the_caribbean/
- International Association for Caribbean Archaeology
- http://www.museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/IACA.WWW/iaca.htm
- Caribbean Journal of Archaeology
- http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/jca
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