French Guiana Archives and Libraries

Archives
French Guiana Genealogical Records Website: Forebears

Guyana Territorial Archives (Archives territoriales de Guyane} Rue du Colonel Claude Chandon Cayenne 97300 Telephone: 594 594 20 42 23 Email: [mailto:archives@ctguyane.fr archives@ctguyane.fr] Website: Archives territoriales de Guyane

Libraries
Library Franconie 1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle Cayenne 97300 Telephone: 594 594 29 59 16 Website: Bibliotheque Departementale Franconie, Cayenne

University of Guyana Library Campus de Troubiran BP 792 Cayenne 97337 Telephone: 594 594 29 79 10 Website: University of Guyana Library Website #2: Université de Guyane

Museums
Musée Alexandre-Franconie (Museo departamental Alexandre-Franconie) 1, avenue Général de Gaulle Cayenne 97300 Telephone: 594 594 29 59 13 Email: [mailto:musee@cg973.fr musee@cg973.fr] Website: Musée Alexandre-Franconie


 * The Musée includes collections of various domains from natural history (French Guiana's fauna and flora), archaeology, and ethnology to local history. As other museums, the collections accumulated for more than 110 years reflect the favorite domains of all managers that have followed each other to head the institution. The profusion of objects in each rooms gives the museum its atmosphere of "Cabinet of curiosities".

Musée des cultures guyanaises 78 et 54, Rue Madame Payée Cayenne 97300 Telephone: 594 594 31 41 72 Email: [mailto:mcg87@wanadoo.fr﻿ mcg87@wanadoo.fr﻿] Website: Musée des cultures guyanaises Website #2: Musée des Cultures Guyanaises Website #3: Museum of Guiana Cultures


 * The Musée des cultures guyanaises curates and shows a collection of ethnographic objects collected among the ethnic groups that compose French Guiana: the first native Indians settlements, the Maroons, the Creoles and more recent immigration groups such as the Hmong, Brazilians or Haitians. The museum also has a fund of Indian and colonial archaeological objects as well as historical iconographic documents and documentary sound archives.