The Guyana Heritage Museum is located at Kastev, West Coast Demerara. The museum was once a home that was turned into a museum by Cary Serrao whose passion for art and collecting items led to him opening the museum after much persuasion from friends. The museum was officially opened in November 1999.
This museum one of its kind is made up of irons, enamel lunch carriers, three legged iron pots, maps dating back to the 18th and 19th century, coins, stamps and a wide variety of books written by Guyanese. The museum is made up of three floors.
On the first floor of the museum is a collection of coins dating back to queen Victoria’s reign, maps from the 1653, stamps used in 162, over seven hundred volumes of books written by Guyanese authors such as Rodney and Mettlrhozer. On the second floor is a room filled with Amerindian, Africans and Indian items. Some of which are utensils, pictures, books used by the Amerindian tribes back then and masks. There is also a three hundred year old water filter, costume jewelery worn by Indians, quanant stools from the African era, milk cans and a variety of items too numerous to mention.
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