Tucked into a wooden building behind the National Library, the Walter Roth Museum is Guyana's national anthropology collection. It focuses on the nine indigenous peoples of the country — Warao, Arawak, Carib, Wapishana, Makushi, Patamona, Wai-Wai, Akawaio, and Arekuna — and includes traditional dress, weapons, basketwork, ceremonial objects, and archaeological material from sites in the interior.
It is small, free, and not always well lit, but for anyone planning to visit the Rupununi or the Pakaraima mountains it provides invaluable context. The museum is named after Walter Edmund Roth, the early-twentieth-century British anthropologist who documented the cultures of British Guiana.