Jan 21, 2025
The Saba Heritage Center, also known as the Saba Archaeological Center (SABARC), is a non-profit organization based in Windwardside, Saba, dedicated to preserving and promoting the island’s cultural heritage through archaeological research and outreach initiatives.
Their mission is to safeguard Saba’s history while engaging the local community in its preservation. SABARC places a strong emphasis on preservation and documentation, ensuring that the island’s cultural and historical treasures are maintained and shared with future generations. A key part of their work is involving the island’s youth in archaeological research and heritage management. By participating in real-world projects, young people not only discover their own history but also gain an interest in the sciences and social sciences beyond the classroom.
In addition to its research initiatives, the Saba Heritage Center hosts exhibitions and displays that showcase the island’s history and culture, creating opportunities for the community and visitors to engage with Saba’s unique heritage. Through these efforts, the center plays a vital role in celebrating and protecting the legacy of this small yet historically rich island.
Contact information:
T. +599 416 2833
E. director@sabarc.org
Dec 6, 2024
Un coleccion di mapa di Aruba y e region Caribense unda por mira y studia aspecto regional.
Kaarten van Aruba en het Caribisch Gebied.
Maps of Aruba and the Caribbean.
Tokante Coleccion Aruba:
Na october di aña 2022, Archivo Nacional, Biblioteca Nacional y UNOCA a firma un acuerdo pa coopera riba e tereno di digitalisacion di e historia, cultura y herencia di Aruba.
E intencion ta pa traha riba un plataforma unda e herencia cultural digital di Aruba ta bira facilmente accesibel. Por mira e resultado di e cooperacion aki den e siguiente portal: https://coleccion.aw.
Segun cu e lunanan a pasa, mas organisacion a uni na Coleccion Aruba. Pa asina comparti nan conocemento, experticio y nan herencia cultural digitalisa dentro di e portal coleccion.aw.
Dia 28 di september 2023 a lansa coleccion.aw oficialmente.
May 3, 2024
In this book THE MONUMENTS OF SABA. The Island of Saba a Caribbean example the author, architect, and lecturer Frans H. Brugman, gives a rather accurate description of the typical traditional Saban architecture. He emphasizes the characteristic red-and-white painted cottages and avails ample information regarding their origin, relation, and development. It is to regret that the future of these small traditional wooden cottages, which were built since the seventeenth century, is at stake.
Endured demolition through the years, insufficient and lack of maintenance, not-traditional restoration, and the application of contemporary materials have affected the historical partrimonium.
With Saba as an example, the author gives elementary guidelines for a feasible and realistic approach for the proper maintenance and management of monuments in the wider Caribbean, presented as a tool providing a database program, which forms part of this publication.
An important part fosters the educational awareness program related to the cultural heritage, which focusses on the youth in whose hands we give the future of our past.
May 31, 2023
The Major Osmar R. Simmons Museum is located in The Bottom on the way to Well’s Bay. The museum is in a small two-story family home on the road heading toward The Ladder. It depicts the household of the major who lived here. Major Simmons was a police officer for 40 years, who collected furniture and domestic artifacts along with 20th-century household tools. To visit the museum please contact the owners in advance. A sign will be posted by the door with the contact information.
May 31, 2023
Saba’s Harry Luke Johnson Museum is appropriately located in an original Saban cottage in Windwardside. It stands in the middle of a beautiful romantic garden in landscape style, which is used as a public park for picnics, in the past also for Sunday croquet games, and Easter egg hunts.
