The Dutch Heritage Museum is designed in a chronological format to sensitize the visitor about Guyana’s Dutch legacy. Information exhibited includes:

• The Early Settlement and Development of Essequibo
• Trade with Indigenous People
• Aim of the early colonizers
• Organization of the Dutch West India Company
• The Dutch and the Trade in Enslaved Africans
• The Development of Berbice
• Abraham Van Pere, a brief history of the settlement(s) under his scheme
• Dutch Forts/Outposts in Guyana
• Views of Estates in Guyana
• 1763 Slave Insurrection
• The attempt at developing the Pomeroon
• Laurens Storm van Gravesande
• The Rise of Demerara
• Development of New Amsterdam, Borselen Island and Georgetown
• Social aspects of Dutch colonization – [Religion: the Dutch Reformed Church
• A List and Information (biographical data & illustrations) of Dutch Governors in Guyana.
• Translation of the Three Dutch Tombs located within the museum.