jamaica: bob marley museum

56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica W. I., historic preservation, restoration, and development of the ca.1910, former home and the original Tuff Gong studio of Reggae megastar the Hon. Robert Nesta (Bob) Marley, OM

Working with Mrs Rita Marley, Mr. Neville Garrick, and Dr Eleanor Wint, instituted adaptive-use strategy and thematic regeneration of the residence to transform it into a Museum to include surveying building, designing layout, facilitating museum installations, preparing working drawings, carrying out historic restoration with services and installing a sound and light show with wax statue of Bob Marley from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London in 1983, now transformed as the island’s first Interpretative Museum of its kind into a premier tourist destination, and replicated by Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, USA 

Rita Marley conducting tour of the Bob Marley Museum, Kingston