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[[File:Turks & Caicos National Museum.jpg|thumb|left|National Museum on Front Street]]
Cockburn Town is home to the Turks & Caicos National Museum, which is housed in the colonial-era Guinep House, on Front Street.
Among the National Museum's collections is an exhibit of shipwrecks, including the oldest known European shipwreck in the [[Americas]], the [[Molasses Reef Wreck]], dated 1505.<ref>[http://www.tcmuseum.org/molasses_reef_shipwreck/ "Molasses Reef Shipwreck".] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123172540/http://www.tcmuseum.org/molasses_reef_shipwreck |date=2010-01-23 }} [http://www.tcmuseum.org ''Turks & Caicos National Museum''.] Retrieved January 29, 2010.</ref>
Other exhibits detail the history of the [[Lucayans]], the [[Space Race]], Turks and Caicos [[postage stamp]]s, slavery and the history of the [[Atlantic slave trade|slave trade]], the [[sisal]] and [[Salt evaporation pond|salt]] industries, royal events, as well as a general history of the islands.
Also of interest are the museum's research projects, including its Message in a Bottle Project, recording nearly 40 years' worth of messages to wash upon the shores of Grand Turk.<ref>[http://tcmuseum.org/collections/message-in-a-bottle/ "Message in a Bottle".] [http://www.tcmuseum.org ''Turks & Caicos National Museum''.] Retrieved January 29, 2010.</ref>
===Her Majesty's Prison===
"Her Majesty's Prison" on Pond Street was built in the 1830s and remained in operation until 1994.
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