Former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony is appealing to government to save the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology as it holds invaluable artifacts of not only this country but South America’s ancient history and peoples.
“I think it’s a real tragic decision… It has been around since 1974 and over the years and to date continues to be developed. You have a lot of collections there that anthropologists and archaeologists have discovered, some date back to the 1800s and some are not in the best of conditions that can be moved just like that,” Anthony told Stabroek News on Sunday.
To facilitate use by the Ministry of the Presidency, government on Thursday confirmed that the Museum would be relocated to the western wing of the National Museum. The confirmation was made via a statement from the Ministry of Presidency, and came one day after State Minister Joseph Harmon told Stabroek News that his government was considering the move.
