NICH RECEIVES MARITIME MUSEUM COLLECTION

March 20, 2007

The Maritime Museum Collection has been handed over to the National Institute of Culture and History, NICH. The Collection was the property of Mr. and Mrs. James Curry, formerly of the Angelus Press and the Belize Maritime Trust. The expertise and services of the Museum of Belize was solicited to make the collection capable of display.Love News spoke with Director of the Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture, Lita Krohn.

Lita Krohn: Director

“The Maritime Museum was housed at where the Water Taxi Association is presently located I think that people call the Water Taxi Terminal and the Water Taxi Association took over the offices. For many years the Maritime Collection which was housed there it was the maritime Museum it was mostly belonging to the Maritime Trust and Mr. and Mrs. James Curry formerly of the Angelus Press. The entire collection is on loan to NICH but we wanted to share it with other people and therefore some of the collection went to the Old Belize Cultural Center and the Natural History side which has to do with reef went to the Fisheries Department. At the Museum of Belize we did the curation we did the cleaning we did the fumigation preparing it for display.”

The Museum of Belize will soon be displaying “The Africola”.This is the first, in a series of boats to be displayed by the Museum.

Lita Krohn: Director

“What the Museum of Belize will feature will be starting next week Wednesday will be one article for example we will open with the “Africola” which was a boat that belonged to the Chevannes family and was built in 1922 and use to do a Southern Route for mails and then it did a Northern Route that’s what we will be doing. We will be featuring various boats; later on we will be featuring the “Herron H” model and so on. So we will highlight one boat every three or four months.”

Director of the Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture, Lita Krohn. More displays include the Fisheries Department, with its Natural History Collection that features the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef and Old Belize Cultural Center’s scaled models of major cargo and freight boats.

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