Bermuda residents and visitors who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Mark Twain this spring still have two weeks to make his acquaintance.

“Ever the Twain Shall Meet”, a special exhibit located in the Mezzanine gallery at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, is the first exhibit to introduce the humorist and writer Samuel Clemens (better known as Mark Twain) to Bermuda through his personal artefacts, documents and photographs.

The exhibit draws upon the collections at Connecticut’s Mark Twain House & Museum, the Bermuda National Trust and Masterworks to create an insightful narrative to Twain’s time in “These Isles of the Blest”.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), a world traveller, came to Bermuda eight times between 1867 and his death in 1910, and considered the Island his personal paradise.

“Ever the Twain Shall Meet” has been up since January, and was the launching point for a successful series of lectures on Mark Twain’s connection to Bermuda.

The exhibit has been far from static, halfway through the run of the show a small selection of artefacts were replaced by objects that tell the story of the Angelfish, Twain’s surrogate granddaughters he met in Bermuda and on his travels.

Visitors from home and abroad have delighted in the exhibit, leaving comments such as the following one left on TripAdvisor: “…upstairs was a small exhibit, but an extremely powerful one, on the visits to Bermuda by Samuel Clemens — Ever the Twain Shall Meet. In this exhibit you needed to look a little closer and read all the labels to feel the emotions of Mark Twain on his journeys to the Island. I returned home ready to read a biography on this important literary figure.”

Masterworks welcomes visitors of the museum to join staff for a farewell glass of wine at 4pm on Saturday, June 28, the day the exhibit officially closes, and encourages those who haven’t seen the exhibit, or would like one last look, to spend some time with one of Bermuda’s favourite literary ambassadors.