Colville Petty in one section of his museum.
ANGUILLA–The renowned Heritage Collection Museum, under the curatorship of Colville Petty, an authority on Anguilla’s history, reopened on Monday, December 10, after its recovery from Hurricane Irma.
The Heritage Collection provides a stimulating insight into the Anguilla of old and is a journey through time. It has an impressive display of archaeological and historical artefacts that span many years of Anguilla’s history from the golden age of the Arawak Indians (who had a rich culture and established about 40 villages here) to the 1967-1969 Anguilla Revolution which was a turning point in the history of the Anguillian people.
The museum highlights the Anguillian sailors, fishermen and boat builders. Because of the island’s limited land mass and natural resources its people were forced, during the latter years of the 1800s and throughout the first half of the 1900s, to take to the sea to supplement their slender earnings from their provision grounds and from labouring in the salt ponds. As a consequence, they became expert sailors, fishermen and boat builders. The museum highlights the island’s fishing and boat-building industries as well as the salt industry which ended in the 1980s.
The museum covers a broad sweep of Anguilla’s history, including plantation and slavery, migration to the Dominican Republic and Britain and 20th century life.
The museum has been visited by many residents and tourists as well as researchers and students. It has received excellent reviews from the travel press and is an education in Anguilla’s history. It is located in East End and is open from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/83600-heritage-collection-museum-re-opens
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