The best museums Fort-De-France

It is one of the few places devoted to West Indian prehistory. Located near Place de la Savane, in a former 19^th century military commissariat building, the museum details the history of Amerindian settlement in the Lesser Antilles. The collections bring together more than 2,000 pieces from the pre-Columbian era, in particular ceramics and stone or shell tools dating from the Native Americans up to 4,000 years BC!

Located in the heart of Fort-de-France in the shade of mango, pear and mahogany trees, the Regional Museum of History and Ethnography is one of the oldest bourgeois villas (1887) in the city center. Through the different rooms of the house, a reconstitution of a typical interior of the time, discover a collection of traditional Creole costumes, jewelry, paintings, old books and documents retracing some of Martinique's great historical episodes.

This museum shows the passion and work of Father Pinchon, a great nature lover and a precursor in the knowledge of Martinique's biodiversity, through panels and display cases of the island's animals organized by type of environment. It also houses an exhibition of herbarium boards: ferns, a passion of Father Pinchon, and insects that live in Creole gardens, in collaboration with Martinique Entomologie. Different workshops and exhibitions are organized all year long, an exciting visit for the whole family.

Tanbou Bòkannal is the island's most famous carnival group, renowned for marching in the "vidés" of Martinique's capital. The name also evokes Fort-de-France's oldest district. The association celebrated its ^50th anniversary and inaugurated a small temporary museum dedicated to carnival heritage. In this cabinet of curiosities, you can admire traditional costumes such as "Mas à lanmo", "Maryann lapo fig", "Diab rouj" and many others.