Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology (Guyana)

Genre : Museum
Principal country concerned : Column : Heritage
61 Main Street North Cummingsburg PO Box 10187
Georgetown
Guyana
Tel. : (592)-225-8486
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The Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology is a museum of anthropology in Georgetown, Guyana and claims to be the oldest such museum in the English-speaking Caribbean region. It was established in 1974, but not opened to the public until 1982. It is located at 61 Main Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

The museum is a non-profit institution created by the Government of Guyana to collect, exhibit and conserve artifacts relating to the ancient cultures of Guyana, to conduct anthropological research and disseminate knowledge of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana through its in-house and out-reach programmes.

In particular, pursuing the aims and objectives relating to its mission and function as a museum of anthropology involves:

- promoting and make the museum accessible to students, researchers, and the general public through the rendering of professional assistance and service to them;
- marketing the museum as an institution for the acquisition of, insight into and understanding of the various cultures of the Indigenous peoples of Guyana;
- encouraging continuing research on different aspects of the collection by students and academics;
- providing appropriate storage facilities for the collection store and preserve the collection under optimum conditions in line with its mission as a depository of artifacts of anthropological and archaeological significance;
- expanding the collection in keeping with the mission of the museum.

(Source: Wikipédia)

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