The Martinique's heritage is rich in vestiges and survivals from the past. Ruins of the town of well-sure Saint-Pierre, but also old houses and buildings of Fort-de-France. The old colonial and slave history is discovered as-with it by visiting the old sugar exploitations, while the villages of fishermen, far from urban agitation, plunge you behind fifty years.
Departmental museum of Archaeology and Prehistory
The museum makes it possible to discover Martinique of before colonization. Its 1500 parts, resulting from private collections and recent archaeological excavations, recall the history of the island of - 4000 before JC until the arrival of the first colonists. Volcanologic Museum Franck-A.Perret
Created in 1932 by the American volcanologist Franck-A.Perret, the small volcanologic museum of Saint-Pierre presents its collections of photographs on Saint-Pierre before and after the eruption, as well as a beautiful series of objects exhumed of ashes. You will see there in particular the old bell (the bumblebee) of the cathedral, broken by the explosion and deformed by heat. House of the Sugar Cane
Founded in the wall of the old distillery of Vatable, the house of the sugar cane presents the history of the sugar cane since its introduction on the island and stresses the slave system which is closely dependent for him. Banana Museum
Established with the heart of the banana plantations of a plantation still in activity, the museum presents the history of banana, the various stages of its culture, and proposes to discover an about sixty varieties planted in its park. Paul Gauguin Museum
Close to the Anse Turin where Gauguin had rented a hut at the time of its stay in Martinique, a small museum recalls the history of its passage and presents a score of reproduction of fabrics of its West-Indian period. The museum accomodates also an exposure of creole costumes.
Museum of the vegetable Headstocks
On the very beautiful Leyritz Plantation transformed today into hotel, a building accomodates a small museum in which the artist Will Fenton presents his headstocks modelled starting from sheets of balisier, of wood-gun, and covered with traditional clothes.
Ruins of the Dubuc Castle
Built about 1770 in the center of a sugar plantation, the Dubuc castle dominates bay of the treasure, at the end of the peninsula of the Caravel. Benefitting from its situation offset with the shelter of the glances, the Dubuc family devoted itself for a long time to an intense traffic of slaves with the English Antilles. Very beautiful strolls in the medium of the ruins of the castle, the dungeons and the mill. Sight sublimates on the point of the peninsula.
Domaine
de la Pagerie
It is on this old sugar plantation that was born Joséphine Rose Tasher first marries (1796) of Napoleon Bonaparte and future empress. In the medium of a very beautiful park the ruins of the functional buildings of the plantation are, as well as a small museum devoted to the memory of the empress.
Balata Garden
On the heights of Fort-de-France, the botanical garden of Balata accomodates around a pretty creole house and in a framework enchantor more than 200 varieties of trees and exotic flowers. Very beautiful points of view on the hills neighbouring ones and Fort-de-France.
Ruins of the Dubuc Castle
Domaine
de la Pagerie
Balata Garden 
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