The Surinaams Museum is a

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located at Abraham Crijnssenweg 1 in Fort Zeelandia,

Paramaribo Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's ...

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

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The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where

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and

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colonists first arrived in Suriname. In 1947, ''Stichting Surinaams Museum'' was founded in order to preserve the cultural heritage of Suriname. In 1952, the first museum opened in the . In 1954,

Dirk Geijskes Dirk Cornelis Geijskes (16 May 1907 – 27 September 1985) was a Dutch biologist, ethnologist and curator. He was the first director of the Surinaams Museum. As a biologist, he specialised in dragonflies. He would lead many expeditions into the i ...

became its first director. In 1972, the museum moved to its current location in Fort Zeelandia. The permanent exhibit spaces include reconstructions of "an old apothecary shop, a cobbler shop and a prison cell in its original state." The museum displays a range of

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and historical objects, including photographs, art, furniture, and textiles from the

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an, Hindustani,

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, Javanese, and indigenous

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people who once inhabited the fort and surrounding areas. The collection includes 51 botanical drawings by the Surinamese artist

Gerrit Schouten Gerrit Schouten (16 January 1779 – 28 January 1839) was a Surinamese artist, who has become famous for his painted papier-maché dioramas of Surinamese life. Schouten was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam, then a Dutch colony. The so ...

and about 400 glass negatives of the work of the Surinamese photographer Augusta Curiel.

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* http://www.surinaamsmuseum.net (primarily in Dutch) {{Authority control Ethnographic museums in South America Museums in Suriname

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