The Bahamas Museum of Junkanoo — Attraction in New Providence

I visited the Bahamas Museum of Junkanoo early December 2025 (just last week while on a Carnival Cruise). The museum itself is beautiful. It tells about the history. It is bright & colourful & beautiful! However, it is small. Like 3 rooms small. The price is $11 per person (adults ). This took us all of 5 minutes to get through - even with reading much of the history. A few minus's - NO PHTOTGRAPHY ALLOWED. At all. I can understand no PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY. But I have a hard time with not being able to take a pic of my family next to an exhibit. It is OVERPRICED. I feel the fee for admission should be more in the $6 per person range. Again: 3 rooms. Yes, I spoke with one of the owners. I appreciate that she took time to come & speak with me. She explained that the price is actually $10 per person. The extra $1.00 is tax. (Not posted anywhere) ....... She also went on to explain the amount of money it took to put the exhibit together - going on to say the technology in the theatre room was in itself well into the 6 figures. I accepted her explanation. Then advised that as a CONSUMER - the cost of the facility is not my concern. The consumer only cares about THE EXPERIENCE. The cost of this experience is not worth the price.

I will be back in Nassau, The Bahamas. It would be wonderful to see a price drop next...

We had such an amazing experience here. It was our first stop after debarking from our ship. We love learning about the cultures, history, and celebrations of the places we are visitors in. The museum is small but beautifully put together and the air conditioning was nice on a hot day. The costumes, displays, floats, instruments and videos were a feast for the eyes and ears. The best part was at the end of the experience we were immersed into a room with festival video and sound projected onto all of the walls and a staff member teaching us to play each instrument. After the short lesson, he asked us to put on some of the headpieces and told us to grab the instruments and go on a parade with him outside the museum (in front of hundreds of people) and back through the entire museum. So unforgettable! Really forced us out of our comfort zone and it was probably the most memorable moment of our short stop in Nassau. The Bahamian people are incredible and it’s a pleasure to learn a bit about their festivities in such an immersive way. The $11 admission price quickly turned into a totally...

AVOID AT ALL COST!! WASTE OF MONEY AND A RIP OFF. We paid $33 for three admission tickets and were told after the walk through of the museum (which is only three rooms), at the end there would be a demonstration and active participation of the junkanoo experienc WITH a guy doing the demonstration. In the 5 to 10 minutes, it took to walk-through the “museum”, we got to the end and no demonstration. We were told by the worker that sold us the tickets that the guy wasn’t on site but would be there in 10 to 15 minutes. They pretended to call someone on the phone. We asked for 50% refund because the experience was incomplete and we couldn’t wait for the guy that they claimed to not know wasn’t on site. How does one lose track of an emoyee that’s supposedly on the clock and you’re continuing to sell tickets for an experience AND a performance! IT’s A SCAM!!! The worker refused to refund our money. And to be fair, I only asked for 50%. The worker claimed to be the owner. She was not. I wish I could give them a negative five!! I repeat…. THIS IS A WASTE OF MONEY...