This museum is dedicated to Junkanoo -- the colorful, musical, and surreal festival that takes place on December 26 when Nassau explodes into sounds, festivities, celebrations, and a sea of masks. It is the Bahamian equivalent of the famous Mardi Gras in New Orleans. If you can't visit Nassau for Junkanoo, seeing this exhibition is the next best thing. You'll get a good idea of the lavish costumes and floats that the revelers use during this annual celebration. The bright colors and costume designs are impressive, if for no other reason than their sheer size. Some of the costumes are nearly as big as one of the small parade floats -- but the difference is that only one person wears and carries each one. The Expo is in an old Customs warehouse at the entrance to the Nassau wharf and includes a souvenir boutique selling a variety of Junkanoo handicrafts and paintings.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Bahamas 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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