Morne Fortune Museum Overview:

The museum is located on the ridge of Morne Fortune (which means “Hill of Good Luck”), a historically strategic site overlooking the capital city Castries and its harbour.

Originally known as Morne Dubuc under French rule, the site was renamed by the French in 1765 when they relocated their military headquarters to the summit.  The location later passed between French and British control multiple times in the late 18th and early 19th century.

The museum building itself is housed in one of the old colonial-era structures (originally built around the mid-1700s by the French, later used by the British) that survive at the site.