Jamaica Announces Plans for Music Museum Honoring Marley, Tosh

Reggae Month may have drawn to a close as soon as we turned our calendars to March, but according to the AP, the international recognition of reggae music has only just begun. Plans are reportedly underway to unveil a brand new music museum next year in Jamaica, in an effort to further memorialize the island's rich artistic culture, and, most notably, the reggae genre born there. Officially titled the Jamaica Music Museum, the museum will be located in Kingston, and will apparently feature a number of rare artifacts, including archived Bob Marley recordings, as well as a cassette tape featuring Peter Tosh jamming with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of Rolling Stones fame.

The curator of the museum, in fact, is none other than Herbie Miller, who was once Tosh's manager. While the space already boasts a pretty impressive collection, curators and musical historians are still reeling from the huge loss that Jamaican music took two years ago, when a massive collection of original 1970s recordings were lost from the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Many of the recordings featured original Tosh and Marley recordings, but they have still not been recovered.

The Jamaica Music Museum is currently asking for donations to help fund the museum, which will be run by the government via the culturally oriented Institute of Jamaica. Miller, however, did not specify a date for the museum's official opening.