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A team of experts from the Smithsonian Institution have teamed up with the National Museum of Bermuda to host a free webinar next week. The panel of all-female researchers will explain the role that personal stories and objects play in the developmen...

An effort to identify a Bermudian boy from a Second World War era photograph has led to the discovery of hundreds more pictures from the same period. Horst Augustinovic, a historian and author, said about 500 photographs of the island by Victor Haag ...

SOS! There is an urgent need to have put forward a few direct questions that have real-time significance and are of national importance. What must one do in Bermuda to attain justice or even relief, if everyone from the very head of our judicial fram...

Sir John Swan said he legally purchased a plot of land in Sandys that was the subject of a complaint before the Commission of Inquiry. The family of the late John Augustus Alexander Virgil claimed he lost four acres of land in the Spring Benny area ...

Art can help to tell the story of the Holocaust – and help make sure such a horror never happens again, an art collector said this week. Gilad Hayeem, who supplied many of the exhibits for the Shoah exhibition at the Bermuda Society of Arts Gallery f...

A palm tree transported from Bermuda more than 200 years ago to a Scottish botanical gardens is to face the axe. The Bermuda palmetto tree, Sabal Bermudana, which arrived at the Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh in the 1790s and is the oldest palm t...

Greetings, today’s generations. This is the “spirit” of E.F. Gordon offering some perspective and hoping it may help you engage this challenging period in human history. Of course, I can speak only from my own experiences. My journey began in Trinida...

I Am Because You Are: For her first solo exhibit at home, Gherdai Hassell wanted to create something “really powerful”. Her canvas was the Bermuda National Gallery. Inspired by her own family tree, she decided to fill it with art that would share wha...

The National Museum of Bermuda has received a $2,000 boost from the Hamilton Princess as part of its recognition of celebrated historian Clarence Maxwell. The hotel honoured Dr Maxwell last month at its Black History Month dinner and pledged to donat...

A seminar on genealogy helped a National Museum staff member find a family link to a Bermudian sailor murdered in a UK race riot more than a century ago, it was revealed yesterday. Lisa Howie, National Museum of Bermuda’s director of learning and en...

A rare Bermuda coin is expected to fetch thousands of dollars when it goes up for auction next month. The coin, which may have been minted as early as the 17th century, was found by a metal detectorist in Kent in the UK in 2019. Robert Parkinson, a s...

An exhibition designed to highlight the horrors of the Holocaust is to open tomorrow. The event was timed for the run-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shoah: Understanding the Holocaust Through Art & Artifacts, organised by the Jewish Community o...