Ninety seconds on National Museum of Bermuda
Give it half a day and bring lunch: one hall holds more than 1,500 objects from the earliest wrecks, and the ramparts carry guns from three centuries.
Start with Shipwreck Island in the Queen's Exhibition Hall, where intact olive jars sit among cannon, silver coins and navigation tools raised from local wrecks. Commissioner's House covers defence on the ground floor, and the Portuguese and West Indian links, banknotes and coins on the first.
The Boat Loft holds the island's small craft, including the racing dinghy Victory. Then walk the ramparts, where the gun emplacements look over open water. Children have a playhouse and a slide inside a giant moray eel.
Explore the rest of Royal Naval Dockyard
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The Navy's great storehouse of 1856, its twin towers holding a clock and a tide dial, converted into an arcade of shops along the original…
A single street of shops and a small harbour, and one of the few places on the island that is neither a cruise stop nor a resort. The ferry…