Category Archives: Amuseum Naturalis

Featured Friend: La Villa

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. La Villa Restaurant is located in the very heart of Grand Case, the “gourmet capital of the Caribbean.” This typical fishing village became very famous for its local charm and …

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Featured Friend: Ocean 82

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. Blending simplicity with chic design, Ocean 82 is a French restaurant mixed with tastes of the sea. Located on the water, flavors designed by Chef Franck Vuillemin will entice you …

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Featured Friend: Hotel L’Esplanade

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. This hotel has established a cult following from guests that enjoy an authentic, luxurious, unpretentious and un-touristy Caribbean experience with a homey feel. Acknowledged by TripAdvisor as one of the …

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Featured Friend: Delta Petroleum

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. Founded in 1985, Delta serves the Caribbean with ultra clean superior performance diesel, gasoline and LPG meeting the highest U.S. and European standards. Delta is a proud member of communities …

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Friends of the Amuseum

We are in the process of renovating and improving Amuseum Naturalis for the coming season and looking for help to make it as good as it can be. We made a short video about our Friends of the Amuseum program with some footage of Amuseum Naturalis from this past season, check it out! Visit this …

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Help Amuseum Naturalis Upgrade and Reopen for Fall

Amuseum Naturalis, St. Martin’s only natural history museum, has big plans for the 2016-17 season. New and improved exhibits are in the works for the free pop-up museum, as well as expanded hours and school visits. The local community is helping to make it all possible by participating in the Friends of the Amuseum program. …

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Unsung Stories of Caribbean Naturalists Come Alive at Book Fair Presentation

Discover the fascinating, largely unknown stories of the incredible women and men who helped to build the scientific heritage of the Caribbean at a special multimedia presentation at the 2016 St. Martin Book Fair. Women, People of Color, and the Making of Natural History in the Caribbean, is free and open to the public and …

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Amuseum Naturalis Reopens in Grand Case

Get ready, nature lovers: Amuseum Naturalis, a free pop-up natural history museum in Grand Case is reopening. The museum will open May 28th and 29th during the Fête de la Mer and throughout the month of June on Sunday and Thursday evenings from 4-8pm. School classes and youth groups can also contact Les Fruits de …

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Amuseum Naturalis Exhibit on Women and People of Color to Open Tuesday, Feb. 9th

Island residents and tourists of all ages are invited to the free grand opening of the exhibit Women, People of Color, and the Making of Natural History in the Caribbean, on Tuesday, February 9 from 6-10pm at Amuseum Naturalis in Grand Case. The exhibit is a special series at Amuseum Naturalis, created to shine a …

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Museum Babies

One other event of note that happened at Amuseum Naturalis was a birth. In fact, a lot of them. A shrimp that has had a large cluster of eggs under her tail for the past couple weeks gave birth to a bajillion tiny shrimplets. The shrimplets were about as big as grains of sand, so …

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