Educulture Bahamas

Junkanoo is to the Bahamas as Mardi Gras is to New Orleans: defining. Even more so than Mardi Gras, because the holiday-time street festival incorporates and informs every form of the arts in the Bahamas. Junkanoo bands spend countless hours and dollars on their annually changing costumes - more like human floats designed for the year's theme. The tradition deserves its own museum, and this place preserves the costumes, music and performance art that is Junkanoo from the old days when costumes were made from newspaper and sponge, to present-day crepe paper works of art. Near the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas,it has been open for several years as a school field trip destination, but recently blipped on tourism's radar.