Barbados Museum & Historical Society
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The Barbados Museum & Historical Society is a private organization with public collections.{{cite web |url=http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/items/show/1854 |url-access= |title=Barbados Museum and Historical Society |last=Nelson |first=Rebecca |year=2022 |website=www.antislavery.ac.uk |publisher=University of Nottingham |agency=The Antislavery Usable Past project |location=U.K. |access-date=1 October 2022 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}} Established in 1933 in the old Military Prison at the Saint Ann's historic Garrison, the museum has more than 500,000 artifacts that depict the island's rich history and natural history. Inclusive of some of these artifacts are antique maps of the island and paintings.{{Cite book|title=A-Z of Barbados heritage|author=Sean Carrington|author2=Henry Fraser|author3=John Gilmore|author4=G Addinton Forde|date=2003|publisher=Macmillan Caribbean|isbn=0333920686|oclc=53920419}}
Notable members include Sir John Saint, who was President of the Society from 1946 to 1959.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U168805, SAINT, Sir (Sidney) John], from Who Was Who 1981–1990 (London: A. & C. Black, 1991, {{ISBN|0-7136-3336-0}}), online edition by Oxford University Press, November 2012, accessed 18 February 2014 (subscription site)
In 1993 the BMH&S acquired the Newton Slave Burial Ground site located in Christ Church.{{cite web |title=Barbados Museum and Historical Society {{!}} Slavery and Remembrance |url=http://slaveryandremembrance.org/partners/partner/?id=P0026 |website=slaveryandremembrance.org}}
Further reading
{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/1519178 |url-access= |title=The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society |author=Barbados Museum and Historical Society |date= |year= |orig-date= |department= |website= |series= |publisher= |agency= |location=BB |at= |type= |format= |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn= |issn=0005-5891 |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc=1519178 |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |access-date=16 January 2023 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |quote= }}
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