Musée d’Histoire et d’Ethnographie de Fort de France in Martinique

Address: 
10 boulevard Général de Gaulle
97200 Fort-de-France
Martinique
Telephone: 
International: +596 5 96 72 81 87 (landline) or +596 5 96 63 74 11 (fax) ; National: 05 96 72 81 87 (landline) or 05 96 63 74 11 (fax)
Management type: 
Museums
Type: 
Museums
Site overview: 
Inaugurated in 1999, the museum is located in a villa dating from 1887. The ground floor hosts temporary exhibitions and the first floor houses a permanent exhibition representing a bourgeois interior, with costumes and furniture dating from the nineteenth century, immersing visitors into the lives of the West-Indian notables of the time.
Keywords: 
Martiniquais identity
Martinique