British Virgin Islands / Special Interests / Museums

There are a sprinkling of small, rustic museums showcasing everything from shells and maritime memorabilia to pottery and tools dating from the Amerindian period when there were ancient settlements on the islands.

Penn House, Tortola - A pretty gingerbread cottage on Main Street with clapboard walls and a red tin roof. It contains the BVI Folk Museum, where you will see displays of BVI natural life and old artefacts including Amerindian pottery and more recent plantation and other remains. Some pottery from the RMS Rhone, whose hulk still lies off Salt Island where it sank in 1867, are also on view.