Skip the Line: Museum Kurá Hulanda Admission Ticket
Overview
This museum impressively exhibits the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in its totally, from slave capture in Africa through the Middle Passage and relocation in the New World.
Museum Kurá Hulanda further exhibits a vast collection of artifacts from continental Africa, showing the dynamic vitality and great Empires of West Africa, which in the largest collection of African artifacts in the Caribbean.
Inclusions
- Receptionist
- Museum map
- Entry/Admission - Kura Hulanda Museum
What to expect
Initiated and developed by Jacob Gelt Dekker, the Museum Kurá Hulanda opened its door in April 1999. Museum Kurá Hulanda is situated right at the city-center harbor of Willemstad, where Dutch entrepreneurs once traded and transshipped enslaved Africans along with other “commercial goods.” This museum impressively exhibits the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in its totality, from slave capture in Africa through the Middle Passage and relocation in the New World.
Museum Kurá Hulanda further exhibits a vast collection of artifacts from continental Africa, showing the dynamic vitality and great Empires of West Africa, which in the largest collection of African artifacts in the Caribbean. The museum has recently expanded its emphasis to include other non-Western Cultures of the world, and now hosts spectacular exhibitions of the fertile Crest Region in the Middle East, Pre-Columbian Gold of Colombia, Maroon cultures of Suriname, Africans in Brazil, Santeria/Voodoo, and much more.
Museum Kurá Hulanda demonstrates that our African and diverse cultural heritage has influenced Curaçaoan and Caribbean societies until today..
Additional information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
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Very humbling and eye opening experience as you make your way around this self guided museum. Numerous African Artifacts you can view up close and personal but keep the kids from touching please! Takes about 1.5 - 2 hours to make your way through the many fine artifacts and museum buildings. Unbe...
Very humbling and eye opening experience as you make your way around this self guided museum. Numerous African Artifacts you can view up close and personal but keep the kids from touching please! Takes about 1.5 - 2 hours to make your way through the many fine artifacts and museum buildings. Unbelievable scrolls from the Mesopotamian era. This is a MUST SEE UNESCO World Heritage Site museum.We took a guided tour and were very impressed by the stories told. Makes you realise how important it is to never forget about this part of our history.
We took a guided tour and were very impressed by the stories told. Makes you realise how important it is to never forget about this part of our history.I knew this museum had exhibits about Africa, the slave trade, and the legacy of racism, but I was unprepared for the sheer, visceral enormity of the experience. From the reconstruction of the cramped middle passage hold to the torturous implements of captivity, I was horrified anew in a way that...
I knew this museum had exhibits about Africa, the slave trade, and the legacy of racism, but I was unprepared for the sheer, visceral enormity of the experience. From the reconstruction of the cramped middle passage hold to the torturous implements of captivity, I was horrified anew in a way that no book or film could ever impart. And then, you turn the corner, and there is a Klan robe and hood, standing ominously in an exhibit detailing the generations of oppression and brutality that still stain our global consciousness. Funny that I had to leave the United States for such a profound examination of our collective legacy of systemic racism, one that we're still reckoning with today. Curaçao is a beautiful country with lovely people and many comforts and delights, but if you visit, you owe it to yourself to spend a few hours at Kura Hulanda, confronting an uncomfortable past that in so many ways informs our present.This is a must see museum. The stories and displays of slavery, while harrowing, are essential if we are to begin to understand the wrongs done.
This is a must see museum. The stories and displays of slavery, while harrowing, are essential if we are to begin to understand the wrongs done.This small museum is really well-done; it's raw, informative, and comprehensive. The way the museum is laid out is nicely done and the artifacts are all well preserved and treated with respect. This museum gives you a whole new glimpse into Colonial Curacao and the impact of the slave trade's leg...
This small museum is really well-done; it's raw, informative, and comprehensive. The way the museum is laid out is nicely done and the artifacts are all well preserved and treated with respect. This museum gives you a whole new glimpse into Colonial Curacao and the impact of the slave trade's legacy in modern Curacao and the world.This excellent museum tells the story of the slave trade in Curacao. It also features art and artifacts from West Africa. You can easily spend over a hour here looking at the fascinating exhibits. There is a lot to see.
This excellent museum tells the story of the slave trade in Curacao. It also features art and artifacts from West Africa. You can easily spend over a hour here looking at the fascinating exhibits. There is a lot to see.