List of museums in French Guiana

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]

List of museums

  Closed museums are marked in red.

Institution	Type of collection	Location	Opened	Picture	Ref.
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 diversity		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]

See also

• List of museums by country

References

1. Migeon, Gérald (2020). "French Guiana: Archaeology and Minority Communities". In Smith, Claire (ed.). Encyclopedia Of Global Archaeology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_193.
2. 1, avenue du Général de Gaulle, 97300 Cayenne.
3. Nélia Dias, « Musée et colonialisme. Entre passé et présent », in: Du musée colonial au musée des cultures du monde, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000.
4. "Inauguration d'une salle d'exposition à l'écomusée". France-Guyane (in French). 5 July 2015. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
5. "Inauguration d'une salle d'exposition à l'écomusée". France-Guyane (in French). 5 July 2015. Retrieved 2025-05-06.