The Sint Maarten National Heritage Foundation, is a non- profit organization that was established on October 4, 1993 as the result of a merger between the St. Maarten National Park Foundation and the St Maarten Museum Foundation.
The Sint Maarten National Heritage Museum, managed by the Sint Maarten National Heritage Foundation, is dedicated to promoting, protecting, and studying every aspect of the island’s history, culture, and natural environment.
The organization aims to achieve these objectives by:
– Letting visitors explore St. Maarten’s rich history and culture by visiting our Museum – Collecting books, videos, other publications for our reference library, which can be used for personal or educational purposes – Affiliations with other like minded organizations – Giving schools the opportunity to organize field trips to the Museum and historical sites – Organizing tours to sites of historic significance
The book of cures is a small notebook from the 1800s. It was recovered from the remains of Pierre Beauperthuy’s museum in The Old House in St. Martin in late 2017. The house had been unattended for some years following Pierre’s death, and it was badly damaged during Hurricane Irma. Much of Pierre’s collection was still inside The Old House. It had been battered by the winds and rain, left exposed where the roof was torn open. Luckily, the notebook was one of the items that survived. In fact, it has survived many hurricanes since the first entries were written in it, perhaps 200 years ago.
This notebook, written by an unknown 19th-century author on the island of St. Martin with medical remedies and other useful information, provides a unique window into life on St. Martin.
Author Mark Yokoyama dives into the book’s different ‘cures’, from curing the ‘flux’ (dysentery) to recipes for improved rum. As such it provides interesting insight into the daily preoccupations of an 18th-century islander.
Een kaart van 1859 laat een groot project zien om zout te produceren in de Grote Zoutpan (the Great Salt Pond, St. Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen). Hier is men niet in geslaagd. Toch bleef zoutwinning tot ver in de 20e eeuw een belangrijke industrie, net zoals vroeger het geval was. Tegenwoordig is de Zoutpan gedeeltelijk gebruikt voor de uitbreiding van de stad Philipsburg. Het wordt ook gebruikt als een afvalstortplaats.
A map of 1859 shows a huge project to produce salt in the Great Salt Pond (St. Martin, Dutch West Indies). It was a failure. Nevertheless, far into the 20th century salt-making continued to be an important industry, just as it was in former days. Nowadays, the Pond has been partly filled up to accommodate the extension of the town of Philipsburg. It is also used as a refuse-dump.
RENKEMA, W. (2020). Een plan voor grootschalige zoutwinning op Sint-Maarten. Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie, 5(3), 207-212.
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.
The Sint Maarten National Heritage Museum has developed a scavenger hunt in Philipsburg that takes participants along the most iconic monumental buildings of the old inner city. This scavenger hunt is ideal for groups of 3 – 6 people and can be offered as a competition for up to 8 teams simultaneously.
Some prior knowledge of the city’s layout and history is needed, so the scavenger hunt is ideal for students 12 – 15 or 15 years and older. The scavenger hunt can be organized in combination with a visit to the museum. In a playful, interactive way, the students will pick up information about the history and heritage of their island.
For more information and reservations, contact the museum;
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