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Archives
Belize Archives and Records Service
26/28 Unity Blvd
Belmopan City
Belize
Telephone: (501) 822-2097/2247/2507
Email: info@archives.gov.bz
Belize Archives and Records Service Facebook
- The Belize Archives and Records Service is an Information Resource Center, which is committed to acquire, preserve, and provide information on our National History.
The Caribbean Memory Project
The Caribbean Memory Project Website
The Caribbean Memory Project Facebook
- As a long-term archiving and documentary project, The Caribbean Memory Project seeks to help us understand Caribbean history, society and culture in more productive ways. The collection includes a series of different texts: oral histories, photographs and documents of individuals, as well as their affiliation with member organisations (e.g., religious and community groups). These texts function as repositories of knowledge that will not only help to define our identity, but will also provide the kind of awareness that can help ensure the continuity of that identity.
- Browse community archives throughout Belize. The following links will go live as archives are added to The Caribbean Memory Project: Belize District, Cayo District, Orange Walk District, Corozal District, Stann Creek District, and Toledo District.
Libraries
National Heritage Library
Mountain View Blvd
Belmopan City
Telephone: (501) 822-0397
Email: belize.nhl@gmail.com
Website
Museums
For a list of museums in Belize, go to List of museums in Belize in Wikipedia.
Ambergris Museum
Island Plaza
San Pedro
Ambergris Caye
Telephone: (501) 628-5150
Website: Ambergris Museum
- Ambergris Museum's mission is preserve the history of the area, from ancient Maya village through today, a quiet fishing village and tourist town.
Corozal Museum
129 South End
Corozal Town
Telephone: (501) 402-3314
- Called 'A Window to the Past,' the exhibit at this little museum focuses on the experience of the East Indian population, who arrived around 1838 as indentured servants working on the sugar plantations, but also features traditional items from other ethnic groups.
Gulisi Garifuna Museum
Hummingbird Hwy
Dangriga
Telephone: (501) 542-2700
Email: gulisimuseum@yahoo.com
Gulisi Garifuna Museum Facebook
- The museum offers a full multimedia experience for the visitor. You will learn the origins of the Garifuna people, their history and customs. You will be able to hear the beating of the drums, see a full sized working garden of traditional plants and herbs, and experience the traditional dancing.
Luba Garifuna Museum
4202 Fern Ln
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 202-4331
Email: emericayetano@yahoo.com
Luba Garifuna Museum Facebook
- Once you go past the residential gate, you’ll be taken aback by the spacious ground floor display rooms, filled with Garífuna history, cooking utensils, arts and crafts, photographs, books, and traditional clothing.
Maritime Museum
19 Albert St
Swing Bridge Marine Terminal
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 822-2106/223-1395
Website: Maritime Museum
Website #2: Maritime Museum
- Along with the adjacent Coastal Zone museum, their mission is to educate visitors about Belize's seafaring and shipbuilding history through a series of old documents, model boats, paintings and other displays. The Coastal Zone museum explores coral reef ecology in Belize.
Museum of Belize
8 Gabourel Lane
Central Bank Compound
5 Eve St
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 822-2106/223-1395/223-4524
Email: museumofbelize@gmail.com
Website: Museum of Belize
Website #2: Museum of Belize
- The transformed Museum of Belize provides visitors with a historical roadmap into Belize’s vibrant past while retaining mementos of the building’s former residents.
Old Belize Museum
Western Hwy Mile 5
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 222-4129
Email: info@oldbelize.com
Website: Old Belize Museum
- Take a walk through Belize’s fascinating and historical culture from the old world of the Maya to the coastal villages of former pirates on the quest for mahogany, to the current blend cultures that have created the mixing pot society of modern Belize. The museum contains several recreated worlds from various highlights of Belize’s history, complete with facades of buildings built to scale and model humans and props situated to make you feel like you are literally walking through Belize’s past.
The Windows Of Belize Museum
#156 North Front Street
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 670-1029/227-3401
Email: windowsofbelize.museum@gmail.com
Website: The Windows Of Belize Museum
- The mission of Windows Of Belize is to encourage students, tourists, and all Belizeans to foster an appreciation of our cultural heritage and learn the ways of the Belizean changing cultural practices and lifestyles.