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Maison de la Canne des Trois Ilets in Martinique

Designer: 
The Martinican association "Maison de la Canne"
Address: 
Pointe Vatable
97229 Trois-îlets
Martinique
Telephone: 
International: +596 5 96 68 32 04 (landline); National: 05 96 68 32 04 (landline)
Website: 
Trois-Ilets' Tourism Office
Site administration: 
The museum was created by the Martinican association Maison de la Canne in 1987 and sold to the Regional Council of Martinique in 1992.
Management type: 
Museums
Type: 
Museums
Site overview: 
Inaugurated in May 1987, the Maison de la Canne (the House of Cane) presents the history of cane sugar since its introduction in Martinique in the middle of the seventeenth century . The building hosting the museum is an old distillery that was restored and showcased. It contains a permanent exhibition : a land, a plant, a population, tracing three centuries of sugar economy and a broad overview of the multiple and complex relationships resulting from this trade. (Source: Trois-Ilets' Tourism Office)
Keywords: 
Martinique
Memories of slavery
Slave ancestry