Queen Street and Par-la-Ville Park

Visiting

Inside Par-la-Ville, the Georgian house of the postmaster, the Historical Society's rooms are small and full: maps, furniture, silver, portraits, rare Hog money coins and a Boer War collection. Look for Sir George Somers's sea chest and the portrait of him and his wife, and ask the attendant on duty, who knows the collection well. The Bermuda National Library shares the building, with its Bermuda books and newspaper runs going back to 1784, and no membership is needed to sit and read. The Perot Post Office stands on the same block and is its own stop, and the gardens behind the house have their own page.