Last minute shoppers enjoyed Free Admission to the Cayman Islands National Museum (“CINM” or “National Museum”) on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 from 5-8pm. During the 3-hour period, visitors browsed the Museum’s unique Gift Shop – purchasing a variety of locally handcrafted items, toured the National Museum, got their gifts wrapped, and enjoyed complimentary refreshments while waiting to get their book signed by local author and Museum Director, Dr. Margaret Leshikar-Denton.

Dr. Leshikar-Denton has been working tirelessly over the past few years to publish the true story of Cayman’s famous shipwreck.Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean weaves together rich oral folklore accounts with supporting documents found in archives in the U.K., Jamaica, and France, as well as tangible evidence of the disaster from the wreck site on the reefs of East End. Learn all about the greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands by purchasing your copy today in the Museum Gift Shop.

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Visitors chat and enjoy refreshments while waiting to get their books signed.

Author, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton signs a book while guests onlook.

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Cayman Islands National Museum

3 Harbour Drive, George Town P.O. Box 2189, Grand Cayman KY1-1105, Cayman Islands