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The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum

Ghana

National Museum Of Ghana The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) owns and operates the National Museum of Ghana, which has been open since March 5, 1957. The museum’s primary collections include archaeology, ethnography, and art, which are used to tell the story of Ghana’s rich cultural history. Cape Coast Castle Museum The Cape Coast […]

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Museums of Guinea

Guinea

Sandervalia National Museum The Sandervalia National Museum is Guinea’s national museum, located in the capital, Conakry. The majority of the rooms are empty, but there is a small display of traditional objects from various regions of Guinea, as well as colonial-era objects and statues. Various craft items are available for purchase. Musée Préfectoral de Boké […]

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Historical Museum of Cacheu

Guinea Bissau

National Ethnographic Museum Guinea-Bissau National Ethnographic Museum is the country’s national ethnographic museum. It is one of the country’s two major museums and is located in Bissau. It had a library of 14,000 books as of 1998. The Museum was built in 1948 on what was then Plaza do Imperio, which is now National Heroes […]

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museums of kenya

Kenya

Abasuba Community Peace Museum The Abasuba Community Peace Museum was founded in 2000, and is located in Ramba, Waware, Suba North District, Homa Bay County, Kenya. The Abasuba community Peace museum has seven working staff and over twenty indirect working staff within the rock art sites. The museum is also a research centre for students, […]

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Musée National des Costumes

Ivory Coast

Musée National des Costumes The Musée National des Costumes de Grand-Bassam is an Ivory Coast museum. It is situated in the Comoé District of Grand-Bassam. The National Museum of Costume is a grand colonial-style structure that houses a diverse collection of ancient cultural artifacts and collections from across the country. The colonial rulers of the […]

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Campaign Against Genocide Museum

Rwanda

Table of Content: Kandt House Museum Ethnographic Museum Campaign Against Genocide Museum Rwanda Art Museum King’s Palace Museum Gallery Museum of the Environment National Liberation Museum Park Kandt House Museum Kandt House Museum of Natural History was its previous name. It is a museum located on KN 90 Street in Kigali, Rwanda, about one kilometer […]

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São Tomé and Príncipe

São Sebastião Museum São Sebastio Museum is a museum in the city of São Tomé,  housed in a 16th century fortress. It is located at the southeastern end of Ana Chaves Bay, northeast of the city center. It houses religious art as well as colonial-era artifacts. The Portuguese built the fortress in 1566 to protect […]

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Museums of Senegal

Senegal

Table of Content: House of Slave IFAN Museum of African Arts Musée Léopold Sedar Senghor Musée Léopold Sedar Senghor Musée Léopold Sedar Senghor Musée des Forces Armées Sénégalaises House of Slave A visit to this pastel-colored museum on Ile Gorée, an island 3km (1.86mi) off Dakar’s southern tip, is almost a rite of passage for […]

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Sierra Leone National Railway Museum

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone National Museum It is located in central Freetown at the intersection of Siaka Stevens Street and Pademba Road. The Sierra Leone Society Museum opened in 1957 as a ‘learned society’ whose members included colonial officials and prominent members of Freetown’s Krio community. When the Sierra Leone Society folded in the mid-1960s, the museum […]

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Zeitz Contemporary African Art museum

South Africa

Albany Museum The Albany Museum, located in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, was founded in 1855 and is South Africa’s second oldest museum. It is a provincial museum supported by the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture in the Eastern Cape. The Albany Museum is a Rhodes University research institute. The Natural Sciences Museum, the […]

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