Inaugurated by the Department in 1984, benefiting from the designation Musées de France, the departmental museum Edgar Clerc presents a permanent exhibition on Amerindian history, regular temporary exhibitions on the archaeological news of Guadeloupe, and has an auditorium and library.
Place of knowledge and exchange, the departmental museum Edgar Clerc is devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology. The permanent exhibition deals in an innovative way with the arrival of the first Amerindian peoples in the Caribbean, then with the Huécoids/ Saladoids cultures of the ancient Ceramic period (200 BC – 800 A.D. ) and finally those Troumassoids/ Suazoids of the recent Ceramic period (600 to 1500 A.D. ), through certain aspects of daily life such as pottery, tools, ornaments or housing, as well as Amerindian funeral customs or animist beliefs (three-pointed, petroglyphs, etc.).