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Bahamas · Galleries, Artists & Island Expression
The country’s leading art institution, in the restored 1860s Villa Doyle. The national collection of Bahamian art is on the ground floor, with changing exhibitions above.
In the historic Vendue House, a former marketplace. A compact, powerful exhibition on the African experience in the Bahamas, from slavery to emancipation.
A restored traditional home founded in the 1970s by Jackson and Pam Burnside. Revolving shows by established and emerging Bahamian artists, with a Junkanoo spirit.
Studio and gallery of the Bahamian artist Antonius Roberts, with contemporary work shown in a quiet garden setting on Cumberland Street.
A lively introduction to Junkanoo, the Bahamian festival of music, costume and craft, held every Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Built around a private collection started by Vincent D’Aguilar in 2008, and open to scholars, collectors and young artists studying Bahamian art.
Opened in 2022. Treasures from the 1656 wreck of Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, with exhibits on the Lucayan people and the transatlantic slave trade.
A 12-acre botanical park created in 1973, with a replica of Freeport’s first chapel, a labyrinth and a village with an art gallery and Androsia fabrics.
A nature reserve with native trails and plants, whose rotating exhibits bring art and the environment together.
A boardwalk through the island’s ecosystems to caves and a long, empty beach, named for the Lucayan people who first lived here.
Three Loyalist tombs in a clearing south of Rolle Town, one dated 1792 and shaped like a stone double bed. A quiet window on the island’s plantation past.
A statue, plaques and ruined jail beside a lookout, honouring Pompey, whose resistance nearly two centuries ago helped spark the Bahamian abolition movement.
Described as the first gallery of its kind on Exuma, giving the island’s artists a place to show their work, with a warm welcome tour from the owner.
Straw plaiting is one of the Bahamas’ oldest crafts. Meet the weavers and see baskets, hats and bags made by hand in the Exuma tradition.
Founded in 1976 by the Bahamian artist Alton Lowe. Model ships, artifacts, photographs and paintings of Loyalist life in New Plymouth.
Twenty-four bronze busts of prominent Bahamians around two lifesize figures, by the sculptor James Mastin, honouring the Loyalists and their enslaved people.
Opened in 1978 in a Loyalist-style home, telling the story of Hope Town’s founder and the settlement’s first families.
A small wooden house from the 1800s holding records and artifacts from the cay’s boatbuilding heritage.
An artisan shop that turns recycled sails into one-of-a-kind bags, a craft with deep roots in the Abacos.
Local and international art inspired by the island, in the heart of Dunmore Town. Usually closed in September and October.
A couple-run gallery since 2000, with seascapes, wood carvings, maritime mobiles and vividly painted driftwood.
Pastel cottages and white picket fences along quiet lanes, in a village that was once the capital of the Bahamas.
Artifacts and photographs tracing the history and culture of one of Eleuthera’s oldest fishing communities.
The natural shelter where the Eleutherian Adventurers took refuge after their shipwreck in 1648, and held some of the first services in the Bahamas.
Hand-made batik since 1973. Watch artisans wax, cut and dye cotton, and, with a lesson arranged in advance, make your own piece to take home.
A village founded after 1821 by Seminole and African refugees from Florida, known for its self-reliant way of life and its palm-straw craft.
A headland at the northern tip of the island, long linked to the legend of the pirate Henry Morgan’s hidden treasure.
The home of artist and historian Ashley Saunders, begun in 1993 and covered in mosaics of tiles, shells and found objects that honour Bimini’s story.
Created by the Bimini Historical Society, with photographs, relics and memorabilia of Ernest Hemingway, the island’s most famous former resident.
Built from 1939 by the architect-priest Father Jerome on Mount Alvernia, the highest point in the Bahamas. A tiny stone chapel and cells, open to visitors.
St. Paul’s (Anglican) and St. Peter’s (Catholic), both by Father Jerome, the second admired for its Greco-Celtic design with Moorish influence.
A small museum that preserves the history, culture and customs of Long Island.
Caves believed to have been inhabited by the Lucayans and later used as a hideaway by buccaneers. Visit with a local guide.
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