By Rory McEathron It’s been a great week here at the Museum, which I’ve spent preparing new guided tours for the opening of the cruise season in April. The new tours include a shipwreck snorkeling tour, a military tour, and several different behind-the-scenes tours of the museum. The shipwreck snorkeling tour includes half an hour. more…
We are finally finishing the re-filing project that began after the hurricane now more than a year ago. Aliatte has been spending her holiday break from the Grand Turk Community College transferring miles of files into our new cabinets that arrived with the AC equipment in November. Last year we had an order of file. more…
The new year has started. We have had five ship calls this New Years weekend. Our Historic Houses and Museum tours have been full. Thanks to the storms off the U.S. coast we have had unbelievable choppy seas for three days. New Years day was flat and calm. Everyone was on the water. Today, it. more…
Merry Christmas to all…. We had three ships in port in Grand Turk today with over 80 people through the museum on tours and museum visits. A very interesting group as well: a retired Italian journalist, a retired conservative protestant minister, a retired anthropologist, and a retired couple who had met on a previous cruise. more…
Christmas week is a busy week on Grand Turk. There are nine ships in this week. Yesterday, was a trial day. We had four ship tours through the building. Two tours were here at the same time! It also rained all day. We were determined that everyone who came to the museum would think that. more…
Bob and Janet stopped by the museum on our Historic Homes and Museum tour yesterday. Robert had been stationed on Grand Turk during the summer of 1959 with the SeaBees along with 300 other young men of MCB7 who came to build North Base. After their scheduled tour, we took an unscheduled tour up to. more…
This week Ken and Francie stopped the museum . They enjoyed themselves so much that they became $100 members. Ken had worked on the salvage of a salt schooner recovered off of Martha’s Vineyard in the early 1990s. Evidently, the captain had died while loading salt in Grand Turk and the crew tried to get. more…
P&O Cruises make Grand Turk a port of call on several ships. In the last week the Ventura and the Artemis have been on Grand Turk. The latest ship we had in is from Barbados. Brits fly in from London, get on board, and spend 14 days in the sun, which does not shine in. more…
This week, Bob Pratt and several “cruising cashers” came to the museum off of the Carnival Liberty. They were on a special cruise where they are completing a series of geocaching activities throughout the Bahamas. They also left a cache here. So now if you are ever geocaching near Grand Turk please stop by the. more…
1 December 2009 – Due to hurricane damage the museum had to discard shelving that housed our library as well as nine filing cabinets that held our research aids and records. With the aid of a Pine Cay Project grant, new shelves have been built to replace and improve the library. The new shelving has. more…