Bermuda National Trust Museum
The Bermuda National Trust Museum is housed in one of Bermuda’s oldest stone buildings. Built around 1700 by Governor Samuel Day it was originally used as his residence. At some point in the mid 19th century it was the site of the Globe Hotel.
During the American Civil War it served as headquarters to Confederate agents. Bermuda was a staging post for cotton shipments to England from Confederate ports such as Wilmington, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Speedy steamships would run the Union blockades and unload their cargo in Bermuda. Here it would be transferred to ships heading for England in exchange for materials needed in the South which would be run back through the blockade via Bermuda. Today the exhibition at the museum ‘Rogues and Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War’ illustrates the role that Bermuda played in the conflict.
The Bermuda National Trust offer a combination ticket for $10 which allows entrance to the Bermuda National Trust Museum, the Tucker House Museum and the Verdmont Museum.