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This museum, which opened in 2003, celebrates the dubious "golden age of piracy" (1690-1720). Nassau was once a bustling, robust town in which buccaneers grew rich from gold and other goods plundered at sea. Known as a paradise for pirates, it also attracted various rogues and the wild women who flooded into the port to entertain them -- for a price, of course. The museum re-creates those bawdy, lusty days in exhibits illustrating pirate lore. You can walk through the belly of a pirate ship (the Revenge) as you hear "pirates" plan their next attack, smell the dampness of a dungeon, and even hear the final prayer of an ill-fated victim before he walks the gangplank. It's fairly cheesy but fun for kids. Exhibits also tell the saga of Capt. Woodes Rogers, who was sent by the English crown to suppress pirates in the Caribbean.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Bahamas 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
, The Bahamas
Pirates of Nassau
This museum, which opened in 2003, celebrates the dubious "golden age of piracy" (1690-1720). Nassau was once a bustling, robust town in which buccaneers grew rich from gold and other goods plundered at sea. Known as a paradise for pirates, it also attracted various rogues and the wild women who flooded into the port to entertain them -- for a price, of course. The museum re-creates those bawdy, lusty days in exhibits illustrating pirate lore. You can walk through the belly of a pirate ship (the Revenge) as you hear "pirates" plan their next attack, smell the dampness of a dungeon, and even hear the final prayer of an ill-fated victim before he walks the gangplank. It's fairly cheesy but fun for kids. Exhibits also tell the saga of Capt. Woodes Rogers, who was sent by the English crown to suppress pirates in the Caribbean.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Bahamas 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
, The Bahamas
