Banana Museum (Le Musee de la Banane)
Banana Museum (Le Musee de la Banane)
3.8
Monday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Set in a working plantation, this museum covers everything you could possibly want to know about the banana, from harvesting to packaging to its depiction in pottery and art.
Duration: < 1 hour
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Quentin B
Lyon, France111 contributions
Aug 2024 • Family
Unmissable place to discover the many species and varieties of bananas and a few other plants.
Most of the museum is outdoors, prefer a good weather day. We did it in a stroller no problem!
Free tasting of bananas. Little downsides in our opinion: the explanations are concentrated in the museum at the entrance, then nothing in the whole park. Too bad.
Most of the museum is outdoors, prefer a good weather day. We did it in a stroller no problem!
Free tasting of bananas. Little downsides in our opinion: the explanations are concentrated in the museum at the entrance, then nothing in the whole park. Too bad.
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Written 6 August 2024
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Merci pour votre retour ! Nous sommes ravis que votre visite vous ait permis de découvrir les différentes espèces de bananiers et d’autres plantes tropicales. Concernant les explications dans le parc, nous prenons bien en compte votre remarque et envisageons des améliorations pour enrichir l’expérience tout au long de la visite. Nous espérons vous revoir bientôt pour une nouvelle dégustation de nos bananes !
Written 8 November 2024
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Remcodu30
Cavillargues, France41 contributions
Oct 2023 • Couples
Simple but educational museum. The visit to the park consists of a walk through a maintained garden where you can find all kinds of banana trees. The visit ends with a small shop and exhibitions of reproductions of works on Martinique. Entrance is a little expensive €8.50. It was still a good time.
Written 24 October 2023
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Cynthia
Canada50 contributions
Dec 2019
This museum consists over a large room with an exposition explaining the history and key information about bananas. Then you can walk the grounds and view different banana trees.
it is a self-guided, low key museum but was interesting.
If you take the time to read through everything and walk the grounds, you would spend about an hour here. There is also a restaurant on the grounds but we did not visit it.
In the gift shop, the banana ketchup and banana rhum are recommended.
it is a self-guided, low key museum but was interesting.
If you take the time to read through everything and walk the grounds, you would spend about an hour here. There is also a restaurant on the grounds but we did not visit it.
In the gift shop, the banana ketchup and banana rhum are recommended.
Written 2 January 2020
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del Giudice L
9 contributions
Nov 2023 • Couples
Perfect if you want to learn more about the banana plantations that can be observed throughout Martinique. Ideal with children. Small tasting in the museum. Very accessible by car. The museum is small but very informative and the walk in the park is very pleasant. An outing of an hour or more if you stop at the restaurant which is worth it because it is prepared with bananas. To combine with visits to the area, St James, St Anne, Tombolo.. €6 under 12 years old and €8 thereafter.
Written 14 November 2023
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jcr77144
Marne-la-Vallee, France749 contributions
Dec 2023 • Couples
As the comments say, interesting visit. A single building with explanatory panels on the banana. Well done. Then visit the park with lots of varieties of banana trees. Glad I did it and learned about the origin and cultivation of the banana
Written 31 December 2023
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Travelspot
398 contributions
Apr 2023 • Couples
WOW, so well done. An excellent mixture between educational information, live tasting ( free bababa) and the very lovely park. Amazing. We loved it and it had been our highlight of our self-driving tour to the north. The 8 Euro entry fee is absolutely fair!
Written 2 April 2023
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Did
4 contributions
Feb 2024 • Couples
The best part of the museum is the walk around the plantation. Seeing the bananas on the ground, I find it a shame that they are not displayed in the museum for tasting purposes. I would have liked to find homemade banana cakes in the store, or juices made from bananas.
Written 29 February 2024
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Nous vous remercions pour votre retour positif sur la balade dans notre plantation. Nous sommes désolés que vous n'ayez pas trouvé de dégustation de bananes dans le musée, mais nous prenons note de votre suggestion et explorerons des options pour intégrer cette expérience à l'avenir. De plus, nous allons examiner la possibilité d'ajouter des gâteaux à la banane faits maison et des jus à base de bananes dans notre boutique .Toutefois, il est important de rappeler que notre restaurant, la Bananeraie, propose un large choix de cocktails réalisés à partir de la banane. Votre avis est important pour nous et nous sommes déterminés à améliorer continuellement notre offre pour offrir une expérience enrichissante à nos visiteurs.
Written 19 March 2024
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Paolo C
23 contributions
Jul 2024 • Couples
14 euros to be told the story of the banana. There are about 5 species of banana, they make you taste the most common one and sell food products and gadgets not produced on the island. The plantation is beautiful to look at but nothing else.
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Written 12 July 2024
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Monica W
6 contributions
Mar 2024 • Couples
it's ok, but don't do a great detour to see it. nice walk in the gardens, two friendly cats welcome you in the museum. I did enjoyed it, the only thing I was a little disappointed was I was expecting to taste many different bananas, there was only two that day and one was the most common one 'Cavendish' the verity that is available in all over the world
Written 11 April 2024
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suebee110
Dallas, TX14 contributions
Learned about 60 types of bananas which are grown all over the world. Museum has video and displays which are quite interesting, yet simple. The gift shop had samples of banana ketchup, banana wine and banana bread and cake. We sampled and bought alot of things for gifts to bring back home. The nicest people run this museum, nicer than any restaurant or attraction on the island.
Written 2 January 2011
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ok2go2
61 contributions
Can anyone advise regarding transportation from the cruise port to the banana museum? Preferably a tour or bus. Taxi sounds very expensive.
Written 20 January 2019
Is there a brand of banana rum available in UK ?
Written 6 December 2017
Bonjour, le musée est il toujours ouvert ces derniers jours ? Avez vous pu gouter à différents type de banane ? a la suite des ouragans peut on encore voir des bananiers ?
merci beaucoup.
Written 12 November 2017
Bonjour,
Nous serons très heureux de vous recevoir au Musée de la Banane lors de votre prochain séjour à la Martinique.Notre jardin a subi les assauts du cyclone Maria, mais depuis nous avons fait le nécessaire et il est totalement accessible.tout nos bananiers poursuivent leur période végétative et certains ont de beaux régimes.enfin nous avons toujours
la dégustation que nous proposons à nos visiteurs.
Written 13 November 2017
Buongiorno volevo sapere leggendo le recensioni ,che tipo di uccelli ci sono e che dobbiamo stare attenti mentre visitiamo questo posto stupendo? É possibile incontrare anche qualche altro animAle mentre visitiamo il museo?la ringrazio da ora
Written 18 July 2017
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