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Cape Verdean Museum, Pawtucket, RI

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Cape Verdean Museum

A museum dedicated to the history and culture of Cape Verde and Cape Verdean Americans.

617 Prospect Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860, United States · Pawtucket, RI

About Cape Verdean Museum

The museum presents artifacts, photographs, maps and crafts donated from around the world, covering music, the arts, slavery, whaling, immigration, cranberry bogs, longshoremen and Cape Verdean independence. Visitors can also browse an extensive library of books and films for research. It opened to the public in 2005 and is described as the first museum of its kind in the world.

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