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French Heritage Museum

A museum of Frenchtown history and culture on St. Thomas, opened in 2002 in a 1944 fire station. The collection runs to photographs of Frenchtown from before the harbor was dredged, straw platting samples, fish traps and nets, antique mahogany furniture and a research library. Confirm opening times before you visit.

Place photograph from 2011 · cropped for display. Photo: French Heritage Museum, Frenchtown, St. Thomas by Gruepig / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped and resized; this adaptation is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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St. Thomas Historical Trust Museum & Walking Tours

A preservation organization at 5332 Raadets Gade in Charlotte Amalie, working to identify, protect and preserve the history, sites and culture of St. Thomas. It runs a downtown walking tour, a Hassel Island tour and a Step Streets tour, plus restoration projects, cultural events and educational programs.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: St. Thomas Historical Trust Museum by David Stanley / Flickr · CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) · metadata stripped, otherwise unmodified.

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81C Arts

A downtown Charlotte Amalie gallery on St. Thomas, between the Waterfront and Main Street, that doubles as a cafe and wine bar, event venue and art hotel. It runs as the nonprofit Atelier St Thomas Arts Foundation, with year-round exhibitions, workshops and youth enrichment programs.

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Caribbean Genealogy Library

A genealogy and Caribbean history library on the second floor of Building 3 in Al Cohen's Plaza at the top of Raphune Hill, St. Thomas, above the Paint Depot and next to Mango Tango Art Gallery. Founded in 2000, it holds over 5,000 books, periodicals and microfilms and runs entirely on memberships and donations. Confirm opening times before you visit.

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CMCArts St. Thomas

The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts keeps its St. Thomas location at 1549 Dronningens Gade in Charlotte Amalie, with a second at 10 Strand Street in Frederiksted on St. Croix. The non-profit has run exhibitions, workshops and classes for all ages for 30 years. Confirm opening times and current exhibitions before you visit.

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Fort Christian Museum

Danish settlers built this red-walled stone fort in the 1670s to defend Charlotte Amalie Harbor, which it still overlooks. It has served since as a government building, a courthouse, a jail and a place of worship, and now works as a museum where visitors see the dungeons, courtroom, chapel and rooftop.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: Prayitno, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

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Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church

A Lutheran church in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, its congregation established in 1666 and its Georgian building completed in 1793. The territorial tourism board counts it among the oldest Lutheran churches in the Western Hemisphere.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: Smallbones, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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Hassel Island

An uninhabited 135-acre island at the western edge of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, once a peninsula of St. Thomas called Orkenhullet. The National Park Service and the St. Thomas Historical Trust preserve the Garrison House, which quartered British soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars, plus Prince Frederick's and Cowell's batteries, a signal station and the Creque Marine Railway. Boats run out from the Charlotte Amalie waterfront.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: Captain-tucker, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Pirates Treasure Museum

A shipwreck museum near Charlotte Amalie and the cruise ship docks on St. Thomas, built around artifacts that Odyssey Marine Exploration recovered from deep water. Other exhibits cover Virgin Islands wrecks and what came off them.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: LittleT889, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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St. Thomas Synagogue

The Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas on Crystal Gade in Charlotte Amalie, a synagogue whose sanctuary floor is covered in sand.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: Smallbones, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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Virgin Islands Children's Museum

A non-profit children's museum at Buccaneer Mall on St. Thomas, built around hands-on exhibits and educational programming. Exhibit areas include Buoy Bay, Mango Farm to Market, Pan Geo, a tiny tikes coral reef and a deep sea light room.

Place photograph · views may be from different dates. Photo: LittleT889, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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