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African-Caribbean Heritage Centre
Presided over by the Institute of Jamaica, the Heritage Centre houses a library and a small yet informative gallery that is dedicated to the history of the Middle Passage and a sociocultural exploration of the African diaspora. It is also home to the Memory Bank, an engrossing oral-history archive created to preserve Jamaica's rich folkloric traditions. The center also stages cultural events from lectures and symposia to readings and dance performance.
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Bob Marley Museum
For many, Jamaica means reggae, and reggae means Bob Marley. If this sounds like you, a visit to Kingston definitely means a visit to the Bob Marley Museum, the reggae superstar's former home and studio. The creaky wooden house on Hope Rd where Marley once lived and recorded is the city's most-visited site. Today it functions as a tourist attraction, museum and shrine, but much remains as it was during Marley's day.
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Headquarters House
The trim little Headquarters House is a townhouse-turned-museum one block north and two east of North Pde. The brick-and-timber house was originally known as Hibbert House, named after Thomas Hibbert, reportedly one of four members of the Assembly who in 1755 engaged in a bet to build the finest house and thereby win the attention of a much-sought-after beauty.
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Institute of Jamaica
Toward the south end of East St, the Institute of Jamaica is the nation's small-scale equivalent of the British Museum or Smithsonian. The institute hosts permanent and visiting exhibitions, and features a lecture hall, plus the National Library with Jamaican newspapers and texts dating back more than two centuries.
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Museum of Coins and Notes
Inside the Bank of Jamaica building you'll find a small Museum of Coins and Notes displaying Jamaican currency through the centuries.
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National Gallery of Jamaica
The superlative collection of Jamaican art housed by the National Gallery of Jamaica is quite simply the finest on the island and should on no account be missed. In addition to offering an intrinsically Jamaican take on international artistic trends, the collection attests to the vitality of the country's artistic heritage as well as its present.
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Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum is at the Institute of Jamaica but accessed by a separate entrance around the corner on Tower St. The dowdy collection offers an array of stuffed birds and a herbarium, rounded out by an eclectic miscellany playing a historical note.
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Trench Town Museum
Trench Town, which began life as a much-prized housing project erected by the British in the 1930s, is widely credited as the birthplace of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. The neighborhood has been immortalized in the gritty narratives of numerous reggae songs, not the least of which is Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry , the poignant Trench Town anthem penned by Vincent 'Tata' Ford in a tiny bedroom at what is now the Trench Town Museum.
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Tuff Gong Recording Studios
Tuff Gong Records - named for its founder, Bob 'Tuff Gong' Marley - is one of the Caribbean's largest and most influential studios. Initially established on Orange St, the enterprise then took up residence at 56 Hope Rd at what is now the Bob Marley Museum before returning to downtown Kingston at its present site.
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