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On Front Street, the Turks and Caicos National Museum (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm; US$5) is chief among the island's highlights. Here you can examine the remains of the Molasses Reef wreck, the oldest recovered shipwreck in the Caribbean, dating from around 1515. Mistaking it for a treasure ship, some morons blew sections of it apart with dynamite looking for treasure after the wreck was discovered in the 1970s. Key remains on display include the enormous main anchor, cannon and other weapons, hand- and foot-cuffs of prisoners and some tools. The exhibits upstairs span the islands' history from pre-Columbian times to the present, and include a room given over to artefacts - notably pottery - from the Lucayan Indians and another explaining the islands' reefs and aquatic life. Also on display are items recording key visits to the island, from astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, who splashed down near here in 1962 and were brought to Grand Turk for debriefing, to present-day British monarch Queen Elizabeth II and members of her family who have visited periodically over the past forty years
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