Frommer's Review
More than anything else we've seen in The Bahamas, this museum -- set in a beautifully restored Loyalist home -- conveys the rawboned and sometimes difficult history of the Out Islands. You can easily spend a couple of hours reading the fine print of the dozens of photographs that show the hardship and the valor of citizens who changed industries as often as the economic circumstances of their era dictated.
The caretaker will give you a guided tour of the stone kitchen, which occupants of the house used as a shelter when a hurricane devastated much of New Plymouth in 1932. Inside the house, a narrow stairway leads to three bedrooms that reveal the simplicity of 18th-century life on Green Turtle Cay. Amid antique settees, irreplaceable photographs, and island artifacts, you'll see a number of handsome ship models, the work of Albert Lowe, for whom the museum was named.
The paintings of Alton Lowe, son of the former boat-builder and founder of the museum, are also on display. Cherub-faced and red-haired, Alton is -- and has been for a while -- one of the best-known painters in The Bahamas. His works hang in collections all over the world; some appears on Bahamian postage stamps, blowups of which are displayed here. Your tour guide might open the basement of the house, where some of Alton's paintings are for sale alongside work by other local artists. There's also a garden in the back of the house.
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