The National Museum of Bermuda (NMB) is turning 50 this year! Located at the historic Royal Naval Dockyard and commanding Bermuda’s westernmost point, NMB is a non- government, not-for-profit organisation created by the Bermuda National Trust in 1974 as the Bermuda Maritime Museum. The Museum has since expanded beyond its original mandate, which focused on maritime history and the restoration of Bermuda’s largest fort, The Keep, where the Museum is housed.
Over the past five decades, a small, dedicated team of museum and heritage experts—along with Board members and individual and corporate volunteers— has transformed once-derelict ramparts, bastions, and historic buildings into a first-class Museum. NMB has also built Bermuda’s largest collection of historic objects (80,000+ objects relating to 500 years of Bermuda history), partnered with overseas and local institutions to carry out archaeological and historical research, and re-imagined historic military buildings as exhibition, education and community spaces, research labs, and event venues. With the support of the Government of Bermuda, the Museum acquired the Casemates complex in 2013, officially becoming the National Museum of Bermuda and growing from a 10- to a 16-acre property.