Landmark Guyana

Nearby monument · near Guyana National Museum

Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology

Guyana's Indigenous heritage, on Main Street

Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology
Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Where
61 Main Street, Georgetown
Open
Weekdays; confirm before visiting
Entry
Free

The Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology occupies a colonial-era wooden house at 61 Main Street, a few minutes' walk from the National Museum. It holds Guyana's principal collections of Indigenous material culture: pottery, basketwork, weapons, tools and ceremonial objects of the Amerindian peoples, together with archaeological material from across the country. The museum is named after Walter Roth, the anthropologist and colonial official who recorded the customs of the Indigenous peoples of the Guianas in the early twentieth century.