Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama, Caribbean ethnographic museum in Calidonia, Panama.

The Afro-Antillean Museum occupies the Former Christian Mission Chapel, a single elevated wooden room on pilings with symmetrical timber frames and a steep two-gable metal roof over carved-bracket trusses. Two opposing windows ventilate the roof space, and the main entrance has a covered vestibule and stairs added in the first half of the 20th century. The chapel has no bell tower.

Barbadian Protestants built the Christian Mission Chapel between 1909 and 1910 on land obtained with support from the Panama Railroad Company. The foundation stone was laid in 1909 under priest Beckles and reverend Thorburne, and five buildings were inaugurated on January 16, 1910. The mission moved to Río Abajo in the mid-20th century, and the abandoned chapel was restored as the Afro-Antillean Museum, inaugurated on December 23, 1980 by Reina Torres de Araúz.

The exhibits show how Caribbean immigrants shaped Panamanian society, particularly through their work on the railroad and Canal. You can see how these communities built their own neighborhoods and kept their customs alive.

The museum is located at the intersection of Calle 24 Este and Avenida Justo Arosemena and is easy to reach. It is best visited during daytime when natural light flows through the wooden building.

The museum features a reconstructed Panama Canal work scene with original track sections and a metal dump truck from the construction period. This recreated job site gives a direct sense of the conditions workers faced.