Mapping Collections Histories: Barbados

In the 19th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados was part of the British Empire. During this period, both Barbadians and British visitors explored the island.

They found artefacts made by Indigenous peoples who had lived on Barbados before English people colonised the island in the 1600s and set up plantations on which enslaved Africans and their descendants worked.

Click Start Exploring Now to discover collections histories through this illlustrated map of Barbados using the red buttons.