Avocat Mud House Museum

The story of the Avocat Mud House Museum is filled with adventure, romance, intrigue and triumph and so is best told by the curator, Mrs. Rajwantee Bullock, who also represents the fourth generation to be born on the estate.

The story starts in 1885 when Taitree, a hard working indentured woman, was allowed to purchase the land for a few hard earned shillings from a Venezuelan planter. On about 17 acres of land, she began her legacy with cocoa and coffee.

Today, the museum features a number of well-preserved artefacts that show what life was like for the East Indian community 140 years ago: an authentic cocoa house, a working ditch featuring traditional chulhas and, of course, the lily ponds where the mud to leepay the mud house is harvested.