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Archives and Libraries

Archives

Archives of British Honduras
HathiTrust
1001 North Buhr Building
200 Hill Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Telephone: (734) 764-8016
Email: feedback@issues.hathitrust.org
Website: Archives of British Honduras

Belize Archives and Records Service
26/28 Unity Blvd
Belmopan City
Telephone: (501) 822-2097/2247/2507
Email: info@archives.gov.bz
Website; Belize Archives and Records Service
Website #2: Belize Archives and Records Service
Website #3: Belize Archives and Records Service (scroll down)

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
Website: The Caribbean Memory Project
Website #2: The Caribbean Memory Project

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

Belize Branch Libraries

Leo Bradley Library
Princess Margaret Drive
PO Box 287
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 223-4248
Email: leobradleylibrary@gmail.com
Email #2: nls@btl.net
Website: Leo Bradley Library
Website #2: Leo Bradley Library
Website #3: Leo Bradley Library

Port Loyola Public Library
Central American Blvd
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 227-3401
Email: port_loyola_library2002@yahoo.co.uk
Website: Port Loyola Public Library

San Pedro Public Library
Barrier Reef Drive
San Pedro Town
Telephone: (501) 206-2028/206-3564
Email: sanpedrolibrary@hotmail.com
Email #2: sptlibrary@hotmail.com
Email #3: sanpedroambergrislib@bnlsis.org
Website: San Pedro Public Library
Website #2: San Pedro Public Library
Website #3: San Pedro Public Library
Website #4: San Pedro Public Library

Turton Library Center
156 North Front Street
Belize City
(501) 227-3401
Email: nationalcollection35@gmail.com
Email #2: bznatlib@yahoo.com
Website: Turton Library Center
Website #2: Turton Library Center

Cayo Branch Libraries

Belmopan Branch Library
Mot Mot Lane
Belmopan
Telephone: (501) 802-0492
Email: nls@btl.net
Website: Belmopan Branch Library
Website #2: Belmopan Public Library
Website #3: Belmopan Public Library

Benque Viejo Library
BRC Street
Benque Viejo Del
Carmen
Telephone: (501) 803-2294
Email: benquelibrary@yahoo.com
Website: Benque Viejo Library
Website #2: Benque Viejo Public Library
Website #3: Benque Viejo del Carmen Public Library

National Heritage Library
Mountain View Blvd
Belmopan City
Telephone: (501) 822-0397
Email: belize.nhl@gmail.com
Website: National Library
Website #2: National Heritage Library (scroll down)
Website #3: National Heritage Library

San Ignacio Public Library
Riverside Street
San Ignacio Town
Telephone: (501) 804-0459
Email: sanignaciolib@bnlsis.org
Website: San Ignacio Public Library
Website #2: San Ignacio Public Library
Website #3: San Ignacio Public Library

Santa Elena Branch Library
Carmen St.
San Ignacio
Website: Santa Elena Branch Library
Website #2: Santa Elena Branch Library
Website #3: Santa Elena Public Library

Stann Creek Branch Libraries

Allan Arthurs Branch Library
Yam Street
Dangriga Town
Telephone: (501) 502-0208
Email: allanarthurs@yahoo.com
Website: Allan Arthurs Public Library

Ignacia Cacho Branch Library
21 Srs. of the Holy Family Avenue
Dangriga Town
Telephone: (5010 502-3268
Email: ignaciacacho@yahoo.com
Website: Ignacia Cacho Branch Library
Website #2: Ignacia Cacho Public Library
Website #3: Ignacia Cacho Library

Independence Public Library
Independence
Website: Independence Public Library

Belize Branch Libraries, Cayo Branch Libraries, and Stann Creek Branch Libraries are all part of the National Library Service of Belize.

University of Belize Library

The University of Belize Library consists of four libraries: Faculty of Management and Social Science library in Belize City, Toledo (now Punta Gorda) Campus Library, Central Farm Library and the Central Campus in Belmopan. The library also serves as a reference desk, wireless hotspot, holding area, photocopying and scanning area, lost and found, and binding station.

Central Campus
Hummingbird Avenue
Belmopan
Telephone: (501) 822-1000/822-3680 ext 451
Website: Central Campus
Website #2: University of Belize Library

Central Farm Library
Mile 65 George Price Highway
Central Farm
Telephone: (501) 824-3775
Website: Central Farm
Website #2: Central Farm Library (scroll down)

Faculty of Management and Social Science Library
University Drive
West Landivar
P.O. Box 990
Belize City
Telephone: (501) 223-2733
Website: Management & Social Sciences
Website #2: Faculty of Management and Social Science Library (scroll down)

Punta Gorda Campus Library
Jose Maria Nunez St.
Punta Gorda
Telephone: (501) 702-2720
Website: Punta Gorda
Website #2: Toledo Campus Library (scroll down)

For a list of libraries in Belize, go to List of libraries in Belize in Wikipedia.

Museums

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.

Belize Archaeology Museum
Mountain View Boulevard
Belmopan
Telephone: (501) 822-2106
Website: Belize Archaeology Museum

The Belize Archaeology Museum, often referred to as the Belmopan Museum, is a national museum in Belmopan, Belize. It features exhibits of Mayan archaeological discoveries and explores some 3000 years of Mayan history.

Corozal Museum
129 South End
Corozal Town
Telephone: (501) 402-3314
Website: Corozal Museum

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.

Goldson House
82 Orange St
Belmopan
Telephone: (501) 822-2613
Email: thegoldsonhouse@gmail.com
Website: The Goldson House for Democracy and Patriotism
Website #2: The Goldson House for Democracy and Patriotism

The Goldson House for Democracy and Patriotism was inaugurated in September 2015. Its purpose is to serve as a museum and learning center to highlight and examine the life and contributions of Belizean National Hero, Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson.

Gulisi Garifuna Museum
Hummingbird Hwy
Dangriga
Telephone: (501) 542-2700
Email: gulisimuseum@yahoo.com
Website: Gulisi Garifuna Museum
Website #2: Gulisi Garifuna Museum
Website #3: Gulisi Garifuna Museum

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
Website: Luba Garifuna Museum

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.

For a list of museums in Belize, go to List of museums in Belize in Wikipedia.