THE Guyana National Museum is staging an exhibition titled “Celebrating Our Rich Legacy, Guyanese Culture and Identity, A Look Back at the Good Ol’ Days.”The exhibition was opened on Wednesday in celebration of International Museums Day and will run until June 18, 2016, and is being run in collaboration with the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology and The Museum of African Heritage.
Museum Administrator Tamika Boatswain said the exhibition is intended to showcase the creativity of Guyanese in the olden days when they used what was available to make life easy.
She explained that the exhibition takes a look back at the creative and innovative aspects of Guyanese culture and tradition, and recognises their value to the Guyanese identity. It showcases arts and craft, food production, childhood games and pastimes, architecture, creole enterprises and entertainment.