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In the news
- 03 Oct
Pay your membership dues or donate by credit card
Read moreSAMAAP is now accepting membership and donation payments by credit card from overseas and as well as from Panama.
- 31 Jul
SAMAAP Board of Directors 2024 election
Read moreOn October 26, 2024, it will be time to vote for the members of SAMAAP’s new board of directors for the period 2025 - 2026.
- 13 Jul
Know Your Canal 2024
Read more2024 Calendar of activities to highlight the contributions of men and women of African descent in the development of Panamanian society.
- 02 Jul
Gala Dinner and Dance
Read moreSAMAAP pictures of their 2023 gala dinner and tribute dance event honoring several local outstanding citizens.
- 29 Jul
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.
- 18 Jul
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
History of our museum
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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…
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…
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…
Get Involved
We want you to be part of the SAMAAP experience and its service to our community. We offer several ways to keep you engaged with us to help maintain and develop our museum and our activities. If you love to preserve and care about the local history or if you want support our cultural traditions, become a SAMAAP member today!
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 pastYour 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 supportThe 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.
Become a SAMAAP memberPlanning to visit the West Indian Museum of Panama?
Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. - Closed on Mondays.
What our visitors saying about their experience at SAMAAP activities.
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I attended The West Indian Fair at the Atlapa last February 2019. The food, the cultural dances and the ethnic arts and craft were great!
Teresa Barrett -
I have attended most of their cultural and religious activities which bring out the best of the West-Indian community in Panama and Colon.
Ruth Lawson -
What a super day at the West Indian Fair! Great music, incredibly friendly people, dancing, singing, a lot of smiles and of course eating.
Daniel Joseph -
This year’s crowd at the ATLAPA convention Center was bigger than in the past, drawing isthmian residents of all ethnicities.
Silvia Tom -
I wish to thank SAMAAP for opening your doors to me and allowing me to use your research center/museum and library.
Dr. Beverly A King Miller