This is a list of museums in French Guiana. The French department of French Guiana contains a limited range of museums, defined here as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non-profit art galleries and university art galleries are also included, but museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not. There are three main state museums. [1]
Institution | Type of collection | Location | Opened | Picture | Ref. |
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Musée départemental Alexandre-Franconie | Natural history, archaeology, ethnography and local history | Cayenne, French Guiana | 1901 | | [1] [2] [3] |
Musée des Cultures Guyanaises | Amerindian, Bushinengé, and Creole ethnological objects; exhibitions on Guianese cultural civersity | Late 1980s | [1] | ||
Musée des Cultures Guyanaises | Life on the Approuague River in twentieth century; pre-Columbian objects | 2008 | [1] [4] | ||
Centre d'Archéologie Amérindienne de Kourou | Life on the Approuague River in twentieth century; pre-Columbian objects | 2008 | [1] [5] |