2024

PRISON MUSEUM (CIAP)

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This architecture and heritage interpretation center, opened in 2015 in the Transportation camp, highlights the history of the penal colony and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. In the various cells, interviews with Saint-Laurent residents are displayed, giving a glimpse into a bygone world: that of the prison administration. A moving historical journey through the eyes of the descendants of transporters and merchants who saw these groups of convicts in "striped pyjamas" pass by every morning. A recommended complement to a visit to the camp.

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