Whim is the oldest sugar plantation museum in the Virgin Islands. Its purpose is to increase the understanding of a colonial sugar plantation to both island residents and visitors. Exhibits and guided tours are designed to interpret the economics of a plantation, explain the procedures used in the cultivation and processing of sugar, and describe the everyday life of the people who lived and worked there.

Estate Whim is typical of the agricultural plantations originally laid out in the 1730’s by the Danish West Indian Company. The first records of ownership were in 1743, and show cotton as being grown on the estate. By 1754, sugar had apparently become the main crop and so it continued until the 1920’s, when sugar, long since an unprofitable industry on the island, gave way to cattle.