*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
1003 Waterman Avenue
East Providence, RI 02914
(401) 228-7292
Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit Website »
The museum tells the unique story of the people of Cape Verde. Men and women from this West African island nation migrated to New England beginning in the 1800s. They brought with them a unique culture- part African, part European and have continued to have strong bonds with their mother country to this day.
The museum has a unique set of artifacts, photographs, maps and crafts donated from all over the world. There are exhibits on music and the arts, slavery, whaling, the immigration packets, the cranberry bogs, the longshoremen and Cape Verdean Independence among other topics.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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