Musée Edgar-Clerc, Archaeological museum in Le Moule, Guadeloupe
The Edgar-Clerc Museum is an archaeological facility in Le Moule that displays pre-Columbian artifacts from across Guadeloupe. The collection includes pottery, ritual objects, jewelry, and polished stone tools that show how people lived before European contact.
The museum was founded after archaeologist Edgar Clerc donated his collection to the local department in 1977. This established an institution in 1984 dedicated to preserving the pre-Columbian history of the island.
The displays follow the sequence of cultures that settled the archipelago: Huécoïdes, Saladoïdes, Troumassoïdes, Arawaks and Kalinago. Models of Amerindian villages show gardens, manioc cultivation and preparation, and craft work, while other exhibits explain the island's petroglyph sites, such as the Roches Gravées park at Trois-Rivières.
The museum sits on the grounds near Route de la Rosette and is open Monday through Friday during regular business hours. The site is wheelchair accessible, and there is no admission fee to enter.
The museum stands on the site of a former military camp at Sainte-Marguerite, near Edgar Clerc's own home, and the building by Guadeloupean architect Jack Berthelot was designed to sit within a landscaped park of more than 3 hectares. Construction began on 4 January 1982; Clerc died on 21 June 1982, two years before the museum opened on 4 August 1984.
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