THE REDEVELOPED Masonic Lodge in Bridgetown’s historic centre is getting ready to go on show.
And when its doors are thrown open to the public, inside will be the history of commerce and freemasonry in Barbados.
This was revealed by secretary and general counsel to the board of the Central Bank, Elson Gaskin, who was speaking last Sunday night as the bank, once again, threw its financial support behind the Crop-Over Visual Arts Festival.
“Work on the fit out of the historic museum of Bridgetown, which will be housed at the refurbished Masonic Lodge building, is nearing completion,” he said.
“That museum, though not officially named, will showcase the history of commerce, currency, freemasonry and education in Barbados.”
He promised the exhibits would be “thoroughly enjoyable with the story of the Alexander Irving Vault in the Cathedral, which is akin to the much better known story of the Chase Vault in Christ Church Parish Church cemetery”.
The Central Bank has been sponsoring the visual arts festival, in all its forms, for the past 21 years and Gaskin went on to reveal the bank had increased sponsorship this year to $45 000 and that would increase by $5 000 next year.
