Pirates of Nassau

Frommer's Review

This museum, which opened in 2003, celebrates the dubious "golden age of piracy" (1690-1720). Nassau was once a bustling and robust town where buccaneers grew rich from gold and other goods plundered at sea. Known as a paradise for pirates, it attracted various rogues and the wild women who flooded into the port to entertain them -- for a price, of course. The museum re-creates those bawdy, lusty days in exhibits illustrating pirate lore. You can walk through the belly of a pirate ship (the Revenge) as you hear "pirates" plan their next attack. You can smell the dampness of a dungeon, and you'll even hear the final prayer of an ill-fated victim before he walks the gangplank. It's fairly cheesy but fun for kids. Exhibits also tell the saga of Capt. Woodes Rogers, who was sent by the English crown to suppress pirates in The Bahamas and the Caribbean.

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