Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago
The Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in Waterloo, Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago. The museum is dedicated to preserving the history of Indo-Caribbean culture. The museum is housed in the 1919 Waterloo Carnegie Library, near the Hindu Temple in the Sea.
The Indian Caribbean Museum (ICM) is a unique and specialized non-governmental institution that is owned and operated by the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Inc. of Trinidad and Tobago by Act 41 of 1952. It was established in 2006 and opened to the public by the Honorable Winston Dookeran, Member of Parliament for St. Augustine on May 7th, 2006.
The museum seeks to capture and highlight the experiences of the East Indians who came to the Caribbean between the years 1838 and 1917 as indentured labourers, many of whom have made these lands their new home never returning to India. In fact, roughly seventy-five percent of those who came chose to remain in the Caribbean.