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Semana de Actividades
Read moreActivities Week - SAMAAP Youth in the Bicentennial - November 14 to 20, 2021. For more information: 6037-3193 or samaapanama@gmail.com or info@samaap.org
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Know Your Canal 2021
Read moreSAMAAP celebrates Know Your Canal Week from August 15 to 21, 2021. The Society of Friends of the Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (SAMAAP) with the
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SAMAAP’s First Virtual Fair
Read moreWe extend our sincere thanks to the Ministry of Culture for being the main sponsor of SAMAAP’s First Virtual Fair, which was held successfully in
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Inauguration of the new Board of Directors
Read moreVirtual Swearing-in Ceremony On Tuesday December 29th, 2020 at 7pm the recently elected Board of Directors of SAMAAP was sworn in virtually. Period January 2012-December
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Questions about COVID-19
Read moreAll you need to know and questions about COVID-19 Tuesday December 22nd, 2020 – 7pm. Member of the health advisory council, former Minister of Health,
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January 3,1910
This Museum occupies the building which at one time was the Christian Mission Church which was built in El Marañón, Calidonia, by Barbadian workers. It…
December 22, 1980
The West Indian Museum of Panama was inaugurated by the Panamanian government as a tribute to the West Indian immigrants who came to Panama to…
May 3, 2018
The Afro Antillean Museum reopened after six months of internal and external remodeling initiating the celebration of the Month of the Black ethnicity and commemorating…
Prepare for the future by learning about the different manifestations of resistance that our ancestors used to break the chains of slavery and racial discrimination as they arrived to this country in search of a better future.
Learn about our past
Your donations provide wonderful benefits to our scholarship recipients and supports the projects of the museum and our goal to inform, preserve and conserve our local and West Indian cultural history.
Ways to support
The primary objective of this civic, non-profit group has been to foment community interest in the Museum as well as to sponsor socio-cultural and academic activities that promote West Indian Culture in Panama.
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