Events + Programmes
Jail & Bail Fundraiser
Starting 14 September 2026 (1 month) – Jail & Bail is the Cayman Islands National Museum’s new annual lighthearted fundraiser, where community volunteers are sentenced to jail for committing hilarious fictional “crimes” against Caymanian culture. Each participant has a CI$5,000 bail goal and one month to raise funds, but the sky’s the limit! Help your favourite “defendant” make bail and compete for the title of Top Fundraiser.
Every dollar raised supports Museum programmes, exhibitions, collection care, and more.
Tourist Art, Staged Authenticity and National Identity
Thursday, 8 October 2026 (6:00- 7:30 PM) – The second lecture in our Tourism and Culture series explores the history and diversity of tourist art, from fine art and craft adapted for tourism markets to mass-produced souvenirs. Focusing primarily on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, with comparative examples from across the Caribbean, it examines how tourism shapes and markets notions of cultural authenticity through the concept of staged authenticity.
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Current Exhibitions
Natural History Gallery
Cultural History Gallery
Freedoms Imagined; Freedoms Won: Long Celia & Elizabeth Jane Trusty
Kiemanos: The Ira Thompson Collection
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The Cayman Islands National Museum is proudly housed in the historic Old Courts Building, one of the few surviving nineteenth-century structures on the Islands. For over 180 years, this iconic building has stood at the heart of George Town, serving as a landmark and a beacon for returning seamen—long before the lighthouse was built, a lantern was hoisted nightly on its flagpole to guide ships safely home.
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