Guyana Where and What 2023-2024 for website_compressed

Art
reptiles, birds and mammals, together
with specimens of the country’s
geomorphology.
THE WALTER ROTH MUSEUM OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
Main Street,
Georgetown
Tel: (592) 225-8486
This building houses an ethnographic
collection of Guyana’s indigenous
peoples and excavated artifacts from
all ten administrative regions.
THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY,
CASTELLANI HOUSE
Vlissengen Road and Homestretch
Avenue,
Georgetown.
Tel: (592) 225-0579, 225-6638
Fax: (592) 225-5078
Official residence of former President,
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, it
was converted to an art gallery in 1993
and renamed ‘Castellani House’ after
its Maltesian architect.
Castellani House exhibits the National
Collection of over 700 works of art,
acquired since the 1940’s. Guyana’s
best artists have established a strong
painting and sculpting tradition that
gives this collection a distinctiveness,
setting it apart from others in the
Caribbean, reflecting the country’s
unique culture, history and geography.
The third floor displays an Amerindian
village made from balata gum.
Works range from realism to abstract
art and variations of these elements.
Paintings explore themes of ethnic and
folk, cultural and religious practices, of
African village life, Hindu and Muslim
beliefs or Amerindian myths, or depict
city and rural scenes, and landscapes
of Guyana’s spectacular interior.
Recent sculpture has been impressive,
producing memorable and unique
forms.
Entrance to all gallery events is free.
THE LINDEN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
MUSEUM
Mackenzie Recreation Hall
Linden
Tel: (592) 652-6012/662-3576/444-
6374
*Displays a chronological history of
Mackenzie, Wismar and Christianburg,
a carved wooden depiction of the
bauxite mining process from pit to
port, paintings and a large mural of
Linden.
“If I could say it in words there
would be no reason to paint.”
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