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40th West Indian Fair 2022
Read moreGreat Afro-Antillean Fair of SAMAAP was held on Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22 - Click to view pictures
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15
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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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New mailing address for SAMAAP
Read moreConsidering that the Panamanian national postal system has not been functioning, we made the decision to obtain a mailbox from the private company Mailboxes, Etc.
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Know Your Canal 2020
Read moreThis year, we will be having a virtual commemoration of Know Your Canal Week from August 9 to 15, 2020. The Society of Friends of
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40th West Indian Fair 2021 has been canceled
Read moreConsidering the health crisis we are facing with COVID 19, we made the decision to CANCEL the Gran Feria Afroantillana scheduled for February 13 &
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Artist Martanoemi Noriega
Read moreInspiration for our new website The headers and homepage for our new website as well as our 2019 newsletter were inspired by the murals by
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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…
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