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Library Franconie
1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle
Cayenne 97300 French Guiana
Telephone: 594 594 29 59 16

University of Guyana Library
Campus de Troubiran BP 792
Cayenne 97337 French Guiana
Telephone: 594 594 29 79 10
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Museums

Musée Alexandre-Franconie (Museo departamental Alexandre-Franconie)
1, avenue Général de Gaulle
Cayenne 97300 French Guiana
Telephone: 594 594 29 59 13
Email: musee@cg973.fr
Website

The Musée includes collections of various domains from natural history (French Guiana's fauna and flora), archaeology, and ethnology to local history. As other museums, the collections accumulated for more than 110 years reflect the favorite domains of all managers that have followed each other to head the institution. The profusion of objects in each rooms gives the museum its atmosphere of "Cabinet of curiosities".

Musée des cultures guyanaises
78 et 54, Rue Madame Payée
Cayenne 97300 French Guiana
Telephone: 594 594 31 41 72
Email: mcg87@wanadoo.fr
Website

The Musée des cultures guyanaises curates and shows a collection of ethnographic objects collected among the ethnic groups that compose French Guiana: the first native Indians settlements, the Maroons, the Creoles and more recent immigration groups such as the Hmong, Brazilians or Haitians. The museum also has a fund of Indian and colonial archaeological objects as well as historical iconographic documents and documentary sound archives.