Bustamante Museum to open Tuesday PDF Print E-mail

The life and work of the late Jamaican national hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante, will be on display for all to see come Tuesday, when the Bustamante Museum is officially opened.   

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The museum has been established at Sir Alexander's former home on Tucker Avenue in St Andrew.   

 

More than 50 boxes of historical documents relating to Sir Alexander's life and service to Jamaica, as the country's first chief minister and prime minister, will be available for research and reference when the museum opens.   

 

Among the documents that are expected to be of particular interest to the public are Sir Alexander's many letters to the press in which he often raised the issue of the unsatisfactory working conditions of the poor.   

 

The museum is also expected to house several medals and honours won by Sir Alexander during his years abroad, which were preserved by his wife, Lady Bustamante.   

 

The 27-year-old Bustamante Foundation is spearheading the project, which is expected to reignite interest in the work of Sir Alexander.

 

This is the second museum dedicated to the memory of Sir Alex, in the cool hills of Blenheim,  a a stone's throw away from  the district of Dias, Cacoon, in the western parish of Hanover. This museum, run by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, is housed in a board and thatch roofed replica of the houe in which Busta lived as a child on the same lands,   carries  which take you throuch his life pretty much from birth to death.

 

On arrival  visitors are greeted by a lifesize statue of Bustamante and artefacts on display include his riding boots, top hat, and his briefcase. On the outside there is a reflection park with storyboards carrying various quotations from the chief.

 

There is also a buttery which contains many artefacts  reminiscent of the period including a Creng Creng (used traditionally to smoke meat) and various utensils. There are also sevral large storyboards carrying quotations fro Bustamante, all intended to encurage reflection on the spot where he once lived.

 

Visitors can also walk in the  footsteps of the great hero as there is a walkway with footprints cast in concrete, from his actual shoes.

 

edited from original article in The Gleaner



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